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Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy Committee
releases their report ‘Electric vehicles: driving the
transition’
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Report calls for an earlier ban on new petrol and
diesel car sales
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Key measures, including new policies around charging
and reducing company car tax rates, suggested
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REA, which represents the renewable energy, storage,
and EV charging sectors, comments
Responding to today’s BEIS Committee report ‘Electric
Vehicles: driving the
transition, Daniel Brown, Policy
Manager at the Renewable Energy Association (REA)
commented:
“If we want to build EVs in the future, as the Government has
outlined, then we first need to build markets for them. To do so
requires consumers feeling confident that they can reliably
access chargers at a range of locations, including at home, on
street, and in hubs.
"One key way to support the range of EV charging developers
is to ensure that there are enough vehicles on the roads using
their charge points. Benefit-in-Kind rates for electric company
cars are currently heading in the wrong direction, up to a
frustrating 16% next year, and should be reduced to 2% in the
Autumn Statement to bring us in line with Germany, the
Netherlands and Ireland.
"We are supportive of the Committee’s views that the
Government should take a more direct role in coordinating a
‘whole systems’ approach to ensure the strategic provision of
charging infrastructure and introduce a strategy to support local
authorities who are at the front lines of much of the development
of our charging network. Rural charging could be a difficulty to
deploy in some situations and it is key that we find ways to
tackle this potential market failure, possibly through the
previously announced Charging Infrastructure Investment
Fund."
