Meeting the UK’s longer-term climate goals will require road transport to be largely decarbonised by 2050. To help achieve this aim, the Government has announced provision of over £400 million to support measures designed to promote uptake of the next-generation of ultra-low emission vehicle technologies. Electric, plug-in hybrid, and hydrogen fuelled vehicles can all help to reduce emissions from road transport, whilst allowing drivers to retain all the benefits associated with private car usage.

• Making the Connection: the Plug-In Vehicle Infrastructure Strategy
• The plug-in car grant
• The plug-in van grant
• Re-charging infrastructure and Plugged-In Places
• Research and development
• Supporting automotive manufacturing and the UK supply chain

Office for Low Emission Vehicles

The Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) is a cross-Whitehall team that has been established to manage this programme of measures. Comprising people and funding from the Departments for Transport; Business, Innovation and Skills; and Energy and Climate Change; OLEV is responsible for taking forward a national policy on this shared agenda.

Conventional vehicle technology and regulation

OLEV is not only concerned with ultra-low emission vehicles. Technological developments are also delivering significant efficiencies in the fuel economy of conventionally fuelled vehicles; and OLEV is also responsible for managing the regulatory framework that is driving emissions from road transport down.

Contact us

For more about the Government’s work to support the uptake of ultra-low emission vehicle technologies, please email olev.enquiries@olev.gsi.gov.uk.