Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 15435

Large Goods Vehicles: Electric Vehicles

Tabled: 2 July 2026
Answered: 7 July 2026
Named Day

Question

Jerome Mayhew

ConservativeBroadland and Fakenham

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 29 June 2026 to Question 12905 on Large Goods Vehicles: Electric Vehicles, which duty cycles and use cases will have a lower cost of ownership for battery-electric heavy goods vehicles

Answer

Keir Mather
It is likely that vehicles which can recharge mostly or entirely at their own depot will reach a lower total cost of ownership than diesel first, whereas vehicles which rely more heavily on public charging, for example because they travel further from the...

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