Batteries and Fuel Cells: Research

(asked on 2nd September 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make additional funding available for battery and fuel cell research and development.


Answered by
John Hayes Portrait
John Hayes
This question was answered on 12th September 2016

The government allocated more than £600 million to support the uptake, development and manufacture of ultra low emission vehicles in the 2015 Spending Review. Our comprehensive package of support includes funding provision for research and development projects, and the scope of a new competition launched on 5 September 2016 includes battery and fuel cells.

Further details are available at: www.gov.uk/government/publications/funding-competition-low-emission-vehicle-systems-idp13.

The UK already provides one the most comprehensive support packages for ultra low emission vehicles anywhere in the world. We shall keep the funding requirements for the OLEV program under constant review.

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