{advocacy] Accelerate electric vehicle targets to more than half of new car sales, urges new report

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> www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/06/28/accelerate-electric-vehicle-targets-half-new-car-sales-urges/
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> Accelerate electric vehicle targets to more than half of new car sales, urges new report
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> Credit: Firstsignal
> A key Government advisory body has called for an electric vehicle boom to help meet legally binding climate targets.
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> The Committee on Climate Change (CCC), an independent advisory body, has urged the Government to set a target that electric vehicles should make up at least 60pc of new cars and vans sold in the UK by the end of the next decade.
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> The drive should include financial support, tax incentives and a strategy to roll out electric vehicle charging infrastructure as well as tougher emissions standards on new car sales beyond 2020, the committee said.
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