The Department for Transport needs a new better strategy to increase the use of of ultra-low emission vehicles and reduce air pollution. In the last report revealed the Department says that a strategy would enable the DFT to meet decarbonisation and air quality targets.
The chair of EAC said the uptake of ultra-low emission vehicles such as electric cars is too low to meet the US' climate change targets at the lowest cost to the public, all the air quality targets that should have been met in 2010 will be hit in 2020 at the earliest. It's been almost a year now since it's been found out VW is cheating on emissions, but the government still didn't make a proper decision on what actions to take against the car manufacturer. The government's projections say that they will miss the target for ultra-low emission vehicles by half to make up 9% of all new cars and van sales by 2020. The government needs to give manufacturers like Nissan, Honda, and Toyota a reason to choose their US car factories, to manufacture the next generation low-emission vehicles.
