VoteClimate: Electric Vehicles: Charge Points - 17th November 2016

Electric Vehicles: Charge Points - 17th November 2016

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Electric Vehicles: Charge Points.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2016-11-17/debates/BA1DBC6C-9392-4065-9B68-99357E7847F3/ElectricVehiclesChargePoints

John Hayes (Conservative)

The UK now has 11,000 publicly accessible charge points, with Europe’s largest network of rapid charge points and provision at 96% of motorway service areas. We will continue to support the roll-out of electric vehicle charging infrastructure to ensure that we realise our ambition that almost every car and van on UK roads is a zero-emission vehicle by 2050.

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John Hayes (Conservative)

The hon. Gentleman is right that technology is changing in all kinds of ways, and there will be all kinds of results from that in respect of the zero emission ambition that I set out. The electric vehicle developments that I described, and to which the hon. Gentleman referred, are important. The Government’s role is to make sure that we do what we can to make them as attractive to consumers as possible. Charge points are at the heart of that.

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