Inquiry into electric vehicles launched by BEIS

The Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee has launched an inquiry into electric vehicles, the challenges they pose to the energy infrastructure, and what needs to be done to support the market.

This new inquiry builds on the previous Electric Vehicles: Developing the Market inquiry, which was interrupted by the General Election.

Rachel Reeves MP, Chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, said: "Ensuring the UK is a flourishing market for electric vehicles is important both for the future of our automotive industry and in UK efforts to decarbonise and build a successful low-carbon economy.

“Our inquiry will examine the barriers to the development of the electric car market, look at how it can be better supported, and explore the huge challenges which the electricity grid faces in meeting this additional demand. We also want to investigate concerns that there is a 'postcode lottery' in charging infrastructure with considerable variation in the availability of charge points across the country, which must inevitably discourage people from buying electric cars."