UK boosts funding for low emissions vehicles

 

A car is parked at a charging point for electric vehicles in London, Britain, March 6, 2018. REUTERS/Simon Dawson

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain announced on Monday an extra 106 million pounds ($138 million) in funding to help boost the research and development of environmentally-friendly vehicles, batteries and low-carbon technology.

 

Executives and politicians will gather in Birmingham on Tuesday for a Zero Emission Vehicle Summit as the government hopes to make Britain a world-leading country in low emissions technology.

 

A series of investments totaling more than 500 million pounds are also being announced by a number of companies, including Aston Martin, which will create over 1,000 new jobs.

 

"These measures will drive the design, use, uptake and infrastructure necessary for cleaner, greener vehicles – and in doing so, it will help us drastically reduce a major contributor to our global warming emissions," Prime Minister Theresa May said in pre-released excerpts of comments she is set to make.

 

May will also host a roundtable discussion at the conference with supply-chain companies from Germany, the United States, Japan, China, Spain and India to help boost demand as Britain tries to encourage inward investment as it leaves the European Union.

 

(Reporting by Costas Pitas, editing by Ed Osmond)

 

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All electric cars are a dead end and of no use if wanting to travel long distances.

Far better to concentrate of fuel cell propulsion.

 

Even better- promote less use of cars by making public transport a realistic alternative to cars in cities and towns. No one should be using private cars within large cities.