Is the UK's ultra-low emission vehicle sector starting to motor?

Michael Holder
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MPs announce investigation to look at role of EVs in UK's decarbonisation drive, as new hydrogen stations get green light and SMMT calls for swift take-up of low emission buses

As MPs on Parliament's BEIS Committee confirm they are to begin investigating the role of electric vehicles in the government's decarbonisation plans, the UK's rapidly growing low emission vehicles sector...

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