Transport Decarbonisation - Statement

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 2:15 pm on 19 July 2021.

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Photo of Lord Moynihan Lord Moynihan Conservative 2:15, 19 July 2021

I warmly congratulate the Minister and her colleagues on putting the strategy together. Does she agree that net zero HGVs by 2040 is aggressive? Can batteries ever be the complete solution given range restrictions versus the trade-off of the weight of the batteries versus the truck payload? I understand why it makes sense to use hydrogen to store excess electricity and manage peaks and troughs, but building in an assumption that it replaces a large baseload volume of energy, which is currently taken up by diesel, by 2040 is surely another stretch.