Question follow-through · 7102
Electric Vehicles: Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department is taking steps with the motor industry to improve the affordability of electric vehicles.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 4 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 8 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 14 Oct 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department is taking steps with the motor industry to improve the affordability of electric vehicles.
8 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Government is reducing the upfront cost for zero emission vehicles (ZEVs) by providing plug-in vehicle grants for vans, trucks, motorcycles, taxis and wheelchair accessible vehicles.Drivers of ZEVs also benefit from favourable tax rates, such as gener...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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