Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to increase the economic viability of electric buses.
The Government will use the £50 million All-Electric Bus Town pilot to put in place new infrastructure and work with local authorities to understand what can be achieved when there is a real commitment to move all buses in a place to electric zero emission. This is to better recognise the challenges of running a wholly electric bus fleet and obtain better insight into the impact that an electric fleet can have on running costs for bus operators.
The £5 billion of new funding to overhaul bus and cycle links for regions outside London will include investment for at least 4,000 British built new zero emission buses, which may include electric buses.