Policy paper

Reducing emissions from road transport: Road to Zero Strategy

Sets out new measures to clean up road transport and lead the world in the developing, manufacturing and using zero emission road vehicles.

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

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皇冠体育app Road to Zero Strategy outlines how the government will support the transition to zero emission road transport and reduce emissions from conventional vehicles during the transition. 皇冠体育app strategy is long term in scope and ambition, considering the drivers of change, opportunities and risks out to 2050 and beyond. Its focus, however, is on what the UK will do now to lay the foundations for the transition.

皇冠体育app Department for Transport (DfT) has also published development and outputs of the transport energy model (TEM).

皇冠体育app TEM assesses the energy consumption, air quality pollutant emissions and greenhouse gas emissions of a range of road transport fuels and technologies over the period to 2050. This via a 鈥榮ide by side鈥� comparisons of various vehicle powertrain technology and fuel options for cars, vans, buses, trucks and HGVs.

皇冠体育app TEM has been developed by DfT, working with stakeholders from industry, academia, environmental groups and government.

Updates to this page

Published 9 July 2018
Last updated 12 September 2018 show all updates
  1. Greenhouse gas emissions estimates from diesel buses in the TEM report and Road to Zero have been amended. 皇冠体育app representation of well-to-wheel GHG emissions of cars in (figure A2 on p.118 of Road to Zero and graph 1 on p.17 of the TEM report) has also been amended.

  2. First published.

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