Motorcycles: Fossil Fuels

(asked on 22nd September 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what is the deadline for ending the sale of motorcycles that operate on fossil fuels.


Answered by
Trudy Harrison Portrait
Trudy Harrison
This question was answered on 18th October 2021

The Transport Decarbonisation Plan (TDP) was published on 14 July 2021 and sets out the Government’s commitments and the actions needed to decarbonise the entire transport system in the UK.

Zero emission powered light vehicles are a clean and efficient way of getting around and can reduce congestion, air, and noise pollution from transport. While cars and vans outnumber motorcycles on UK roads, motorcycles are an important and sizeable vehicle population, with 1.4 million licensed in 2020 and we do not want to see them remaining fossil fuelled as the rest of the vehicle fleet cleans up.

In the TDP, the Department commits to consulting this year on a phase out date of 2035, or earlier if a faster transition appears feasible, for the sale of new nonzero emission powered two and three wheelers (and other L category vehicles).

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