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Last year, the UK announced the sale of gas and diesel cars and vans will be banned after 2040 and expects, the majority of new cars and vans sold to be 100 percent zero emission and all new cars and vans to have significant zero emission capability. It also committed almost 1 billion pounds to clean-energy innovation, some of which will help people buy electric cars.
Now, in a bid to help boost the electric vehicle industry in the UK, upcoming regulations might require newly built homes to install an electric vehicle charging port. The report also stated that the UK is launching a 400-million-pound investment fund to help speed up the construction of charging stations for electric vehicles.
A lack of charging points is seen as one of the main impediments to the mass adoption of electric cars, which are unable to travel as far as conventionally fueled vehicles. While gasoline prices have surged this year, the U.K. Treasury is growing increasingly concerned about the public health cost of air pollution and is considering the first boost in vehicle fuel duties in eight years.
New street lighting columns also will be required to have charging points in areas with on-street parking and a 40-million pound program will be introduced to test low-cost wireless charging technology, in other measures unveiled by Transport Secretary Chris Grayling.
Category: General Update, Green
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