News and communications

Greener construction and farming vehicles set to improve sustainability by reducing emissions from the tailpipe.

• Updated: 27 March 2024

Grants will help innovators develop new concepts – such as an automated boat that could deliver parcels by water – to tackle pressing transport issues.

• Updated: 21 March 2024

Dedicated chargepoint funding will support people in making the switch from petrol and diesel cars to electric vehicles.

• Updated: 18 March 2024

Crackdown on unfair enforcement and blanket 20mph limits will improve drivers’ lives, reduce congestion and make journeys smoother.

• Updated: 18 March 2024

These measures from the Plan for Drivers will improve drivers’ lives, shorten journey times, and ensure traffic measures have buy-in from the people they impact.

• Updated: 17 March 2024

Plug-in Taxi Grant provides funding of £6,000 per electric taxi vehicle and is extended until April 2025.

• Updated: 21 February 2024

Almost £20 million from the Levelling Up Fund was allocated to County Durham, Tyne and Wear and Northumberland to improve the availability and quality of sustainable zero emission transport options in the region.

• Updated: 19 February 2024

New measures will mean EV owners benefit from easier and more convenient access to chargepoints.

• Updated: 5 February 2024

Letters from the Secretary of State for Transport to the Mayor of London.

• Updated: 31 January 2024

First MOT test to remain at 3 years from registration and annually thereafter while government works to establish a programme of longer-term reform for MOTs.

• Updated: 25 January 2024

Green hydrogen refuelling station to be built near Middlesbrough, helping to increase economic growth in the area and decarbonise the transport network.

• Updated: 17 January 2024

Today, 12 January 2024, the A12 Chelmsford to A120 Widening Scheme application has been granted development consent by the Secretary of State for Transport.

• Updated: 12 January 2024

80% of new cars and 70% of new vans sold in Great Britain will now be zero emission by 2030, increasing to 100% by 2035.

• Updated: 3 January 2024

The government announces funding for new charging technologies, which mean families could use their electric vehicle batteries to power their homes and save on bills.

• Updated: 20 December 2023

The UK leads the transition to net zero and is on target to install 300,000 public electric vehicle chargepoints by 2030.

• Updated: 13 December 2023

EV chargepoint pilot scheme at motorway service areas to support government’s vision of transition to electric vehicles.

• Updated: 6 December 2023

Today, 28 November 2023, the Slough Multifuel Extension Project application has been granted development consent by the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. 

• Updated: 28 November 2023

UK businesses can apply for up to £500,000 to run pioneering trials that tackle local transport challenges.

• Updated: 16 November 2023

Regulations to improve the EV charging experience for millions of drivers.

• Updated: 25 October 2023

The competition will award grants to businesses that seek to provide solutions to some of transport’s most-pressing issues, including decarbonisation.  

• Updated: 23 October 2023