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£200 million boost to rollout of zero-emission HGVs
The transition to zero-emission trucks will also help improve air quality, create greener jobs and deliver on COP26 pledges, while reducing reliance on imports of foreign oil. Eliminating fossil fuels from road freight and improving the UK’s energy supply resilience will help to protect drivers and businesses from increasing global energy prices. One key ambition of the demonstrator programme will be to gather evidence on the future refuelling and recharging infrastructure needed to drive the smooth transition to a zero- emission freight sector by 2050. The demonstrations will help the UK’s freight sector reduce its reliance on fossil fuels by determining which zero-emission technologies are best suited to the heaviest road vehicles in the UK. As part of these trials, commercial vehicle manufacturer Leyland Trucks rolled out 20 DAF battery electric HGVs for use by public sector organisations, including the NHS and local authorities, supporting the uptake of battery electric trucks and enabling learning to be gathered from field testing vehicles in a real- world, real-time logistics environment.
A three-year comparative programme to help decarbonise the UK’s freight industry will begin later this year, potentially resulting in 100s more zero-emission HGVs
The Department for Transport made an announcement on 12 May regarding the road transport sector, including commitments to: • Invest over £200 million of government funding to launch a fleet of zero-emission heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), accelerating plans to decarbonise road freight; • Plans to eliminate fossil fuels from HGV haulage, helping to reduce delivery costs and protect consumers from rising fuel prices in the long term; • Additional plans supporting the government’s world-leading pledges made at COP26, ensuring all new HGVs sold in the UK will be zero-emission by 2040.
cleaner air and greener jobs, while helping to keep costs down on consumer goods. Transport Minister Trudy Harrison revealed that over £200 million of government funding will be injected into an extensive zero-emission road freight demonstrator programme. Decarbonising freight The three-year comparative programme to help decarbonise the UK’s freight industry will begin later this year, with initial competitions for battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell technology launching shortly. This could see hundreds more zero-emission HGVs rolled out across the nation, saving the industry money as a result of overall running costs of green vehicles being cheaper than petrol and diesel equivalents.
The fleet of zero-emission HGVs will support the government’s ambitions to achieve both
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