Electric Vehicles: Large Goods Vehicles

(asked on 4th November 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 2 November 2026 to Question 38365, whether her Department has provided the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero with electricity price forecasts for use in its modelling of the cost of ownership of electric heavy goods vehicles.


Answered by
Simon Lightwood Portrait
Simon Lightwood
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 11th November 2026

Future energy price forecasts as produced by DESNZ, such as the supplementary guidance to the Green Book, are used by DfT to estimate the future costs of ownership for electric HGVs. These can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/valuation-of-energy-use-and-greenhouse-gas-emissions-for-appraisal.

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