Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 83178

Electric Vehicles: Safety

Tabled: 17 October 2025
Answered: 21 October 2025

Question

Steve Yemm

LabourMansfield

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the number of (a) electric and (b) hybrid vehicles that (i) do not have an Audible Vehicle Alert System installed and (ii) have an Audible Vehicle Alert System installed

Answer

Simon Lightwood
All new vehicles are subject to type approval. Vehicle approval requirements were introduced on 1 July 2021 mandating Acoustic Vehicle Alerting System (AVAS) on new types of quiet electric and hybrid vehicles. The use of pause switched to temporarily disa...

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