Motor Vehicles: Fuels

(asked on 17th March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with car manufacturers on the fuel economy of hybrid cars.


Answered by
Rachel Maclean Portrait
Rachel Maclean
This question was answered on 25th March 2021

I meet regularly with a range of organisations and individuals on the subject of transport decarbonisation. The Government recognises that hybrid cars and vans, both non-plug in and plug in, are an important technology in reducing emissions from road transport. While the environmental benefits of these vehicles depend on their use, they are amongst the cleanest vehicles on the market today and will contribute to our interim carbon reduction targets in the coming years. We are clear that the technologies on sale, and the market share of those technologies, must be compatible with achieving our 2050 net zero climate change target and long-term air quality goals.

The Government is taking a technology neutral approach to meeting our ambitions, but we are not outcome neutral. The end goal must be zero emissions from the tailpipe.

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