Boosting the rollout of electric cars
To mark the anniversary of our Road to Zero Strategy, the government is investing £37 million to revolutionise the experience of owning an electric vehicle – helping even more people realise the benefits of such vehicles and speed up our country’s journey to a future with zero net emission of carbon into the earth's atmosphere.
Key facts:
Why this matters:
The UK’s transition to zero emission vehicles is going further and faster than ever. By ensuring the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles is reliable and innovative, we can encourage more people to join the record numbers of ultra-low emission vehicle users already on UK roads.
Key facts:
- A year ago this week, the government launched a "Road to Zero" Strategy setting out new measures to clean up road transport and lead the world in developing, manufacturing and using zero emission road vehicles.
- The aim is to ensure at least 50 per cent of new car sales are ultra-low emission by 2030 and ending the sale of new conventional petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2040. This is one of the most ambitious targets to protect the environment adopted by any country in the world.
- We know that a lack of suitable on-street charging is one of the biggest strategic barriers to mass adoption of electric vehicles – and it is critical that as many people as possible can access quality electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
- The £37 million will support twelve engineering projects that could massively expand the chargepoint network for those without off-street parking.
Why this matters:
The UK’s transition to zero emission vehicles is going further and faster than ever. By ensuring the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles is reliable and innovative, we can encourage more people to join the record numbers of ultra-low emission vehicle users already on UK roads.
Comments
Think about that just for a moment, Everyone needs around one hour to fill their car, put that in terms of the petrol stations pumps. imagine the queues at the pelican :)
The same applies to My wife's car.
5% of the time though one or both of us want to do a longer trip which is beyond the range from home charging, the only option there is to pull over and charge on the motor way service station (or other charger just off the motorway See Zapmap.com) Any hows, yes its true you can stop and have a meal, depending on time of day of course, but that is just it. if every other car on the M6 is electric and everyone is thinking the same thing, each car taking an hour to charge, its not long before all are in use.
Its for this very reason, when its time to change cars, that I am thinking of switching to an EV and a PHEV, short trips to work or to shops are all electric, but we would still have the crutch of the ICE in the PHEV.
If it has been generated by burning coal, the suggestion that you are only shifting the location of the pollution would be perfectly correct.
If however you are moving your electricity generation over to very low carbon generation such as renewables and nuclear - which is the plan - then electric cars will generate much less pollution than petrol or diesel powered ones.