Motor Vehicles: Hydrogen

(asked on 22nd June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to increase the number of hydrogen powered vehicles in use in the UK.


Answered by
Rachel Maclean Portrait
Rachel Maclean
This question was answered on 30th June 2020

We are supporting hydrogen technology to deliver our ambitions for greener transport where the market favours its use. The Government’s £23m Hydrogen for Transport Programme is increasing the uptake of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) and growing the number of publicly accessible hydrogen refuelling stations. The programme is delivering new refuelling stations, upgrading some existing stations as well as deploying hundreds of new hydrogen vehicles. Government is supporting public and private sector fleets to become early adopters through the £2m FCEV Fleet Support Scheme. In addition, £6.4m of the Low and Ultra-Low Emission Bus Scheme funding has been invested in more than 60 hydrogen buses operating in Birmingham and near Gatwick. The Office for Low Emission Vehicles’ (OLEV) Low Emission Freight Trials is funding 20 projects to support industry-led trials of alternative propulsion technologies for commercial fleets in the UK, including hydrogen. OLEV and the Advanced Propulsion Centre are funding a wide range of development projects in hydrogen vehicles, and hydrogen is eligible for support under the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation following changes made to the scheme in April 2018.

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