Extract from Scottish Parliament debate on Energy Inquiry - Oct 28
Thursday, 29 October 2020 07:33
Graham Simpson (Central Scotland) (Con):...I want to briefly touch
on electric vehicles, which the committee also wrote about.
Michelle Ballantyne will have more to say on that, and she speaks
from first-hand experience as one of the growing number of MSP
converts to electric cars—there is a bit of a Tesla army in this
place. The UK and Scottish Governments have introduced quite
stringent and challenging policies, but I just say this: if we want
to persuade people to ditch petrol and diesel...Request free trial
(Central
Scotland) (Con):...I want to briefly touch on electric vehicles,
which the committee also wrote about. will have
more to say on that, and she speaks from first-hand experience as
one of the growing number of MSP converts to electric cars—there is a bit of a
Tesla army in this place. The UK and Scottish
Governments have introduced quite stringent and challenging
policies, but I just say this: if we want to persuade people to
ditch petrol and diesel cars, we are talking about them using
electric vehicles—or hydrogen vehicles, but electric seems to be
winning that battle at the moment. However, as we have heard
already, there are challenges with the charging network—I see you
asking me to close, Presiding Officer, and I am going to do so. We
need to make things reliable and we need to make it easy for people
to use an electric vehicle...
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