Roads Minister: Rapid progress needed on EVs
Roads Minister Baroness Vere says the sector must make rapid progress in the transition to electric vehicles (EVs).
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Transport Decarbonisation Plan
Greener Transport Council publishes manifesto for decarbonising transport
Today, the Greener Transport Council, along with its 17 members, has published a manifesto for decarbonising transport, in which this leading group of transport professionals are calling for a national focus on behaviour change to achieve a substantial road traffic reduction over the next eight years.
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Q&A: Trojan Energy’s Mark Constable on why collaboration is key to solving the decarbonisation challenge
Mark Constable, Head of Business Development at Trojan Energy, talks to Transport + Energy about the importance of both sectors working together and offers advice on how this can be achieved. In a wide ranging interview Mark also discusses the challenges faced by councils when it comes to the adoption of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure, the Transport Decarbonisation Plan, and the types of solutions that can accelerate change.
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GVN warns of unintended consequences in Transport Decarbonisation Plan
Leading industry trade body, the Gas Vehicle Network, (GVN), has responded to Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps’ Transport Decarbonisation Plan.
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National Grid welcomes Transport Decarbonisation Plan
Graeme Cooper, the head of future markets at National Grid, has welcomed the Government’s Transport Decarbonisation Plan and hopes that it will trigger the investment and technology changes needed to make the transition to clean transport.
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Logistics UK launches Route to Net Zero campaign
Logistics UK has announced the launch of Route to Net Zero: a campaign to encourage its 18,000 members to commit to decarbonising their operations as quickly, effectively and as urgently as possible to help the UK achieve carbon neutrality ahead of the legal deadline of 2050.
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Transport Decarbonisation Plan: the industry reacts
With the much-delayed release of the UK Government’s Transport Decarbonisation Plan, there has come mixed reactions from the wider industry, with some welcoming it as a bold step forward, but others deriding it for its limited reach and urgency, in terms of both technological measures, and also ways it might effect behavioural change.
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Volta Trucks calls for greater ambition in the Transport Decarbonisation Plan
Volta Trucks has issued a guarded welcome to the publication of the UK Government’s Transport Decarbonisation Plan, but has called for a greater level of ambition to tackle the climate and air quality emergency faced by the environment.
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Transport Decarbonisation Plan launched
The Government has launched its long awaited Transport Decarbonisation Plan (TDP) which includes ambitious plans to decarbonise all modes of domestic transport by 2050, a pledge to end the sale of new diesel and petrol heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) by 2040 and a commitment to electrify the entire fleet of government cars and vans by 2027.
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UK’s transport decarbonisation plan delayed again
The UK government’s long-awaited transport decarbonisation plan has been delayed after it lacked the ‘ambition’ to meet targets, including the 2030 ban on new diesel and petrol vehicles.
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