Electric Vehicles: Finance

(asked on 13th April 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the answer of 30 March 2026 to Question 123507 on Electric Vehicles, where the remaining amount of the committed £7.5 billion funding will be spent.


Answered by
Keir Mather Portrait
Keir Mather
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 16th April 2026

The Government is investing more than £7.5 billion in the transition to zero emission vehicles, as follows:

£4 billion on DRIVE35 to support zero emission vehicle manufacturing and R&D in the UK, to 2035.

£2 billion on the Electric Car Grant to cut to cost of new, affordable, and sustainably manufactured zero emission vehicles for consumers, to 2030.

£877 million for the Zero Emission Truck Grant and Zero Emission Van Grant to reduce the cost to businesses of buying new zero emission commercial vehicles, to 2030.

£600 million to support charging infrastructure, to 2030.

£120 million for the former Plug-in Van Grant in 2025.

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