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Large Goods Vehicles: Electric Vehicles

Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN 127397, tabled on 22 February 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to box 3.6 on page 172 of the Levelling Up in the United Kingdom White Paper which states that the Advanced Propulsion Centre, which will invest almost £16 million in a consortium developing electric propulsion systems for heavy goods vehicles in Cwmbran, Wales and Edinburgh, Scotland through the EPIC project, over what period of time that funding will be made available.

Answered on

2 March 2022

The Advanced Propulsion Centre will invest almost £16 Million in a consortium developing electric propulsion systems for heavy goods vehicles in Cwmbran, Wales and Edinburgh, Scotland through the EPIC project. The EPIC project is listed as one of the three projects totalling £54 Million joint investment from APC and industry. Further details of the projects can be found at the following link:

£54 Million Investment as UK Automotive Industry Accelerates Towards Net-Zero Emissions - Advanced Propulsion Centre (apcuk.co.uk).

The EPIC Project is scheduled to last 42 months with the grant being paid over that period to the consortium members in arrears on the basis of work carried out.

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Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy