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elcome to the April issue of Electrical Engineering magazine. I’ve recently been looking at changing my car and the government’s announcement that it will install 300,000 more electric car chargers by 2030 – when sales of new cars and vans with petrol


and diesel engines will be banned – may influence my decision. As the UK braces itself for an electric future, BP has also confirmed it would spend £1 billion on new


UK charger infrastructure as part of its plans to diversify revenues. Businesses are being supported to make the switch to electric as the government has committed to a


two-year extension of plug-in van and truck grants. The move is expected to support the purchase of tens of thousands of greener vans and trucks, and will


help make the UK less reliant on imports of foreign oil, improving the security of our energy supply and reducing our vulnerability to volatility in global energy prices. Last year, industry figures showed the UK had the highest number of plug-in electric vans sold in


Europe and there were around four times as many grant applications compared to 2020. Existing grants have supported the purchase of more than 26,000 electric vans and HGVs across the UK


since the programme launched in 2012. With nearly 5% of the UK’s CO2 emissions currently coming from vans, the two-year extension to these


grants and the switch to greener vehicles is essential to support the government’s climate change and air quality commitments. Government grants for electric vans and trucks has helped kickstart the market, which now offers more


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than 30 models of electric vans and trucks which qualify for such schemes. We hope this issue is informative. If you’d like to comment on any of the


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