How can the government achieve the UK's smooth transition to electric vehicles?

The government wants to phase out petrol and diesel cars from 2030. So how can this ambitious target – which has been brought forward by a decade – be delivered? Key policy issues, such as the treatment of hybrid vehicles, are still to be settled, but the government will also have to address a series of complex questions. What can it do to encourage consumers to switch vehicles? What needs to done to roll out charging infrastructure? And what will this mean for the distribution and supply of electricity? On our panel to discuss the challenges involved in the electric vehicle switchover were: Professor David Bailey, Professor of Business Economics at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham and Senior Fellow at UK in a Changing Europe Philip New, Chair of the EV Energy Taskforce and former CEO of Energy Systems Catapult Dr Aruna Sivakumar, Director of the Urban Systems Lab at Imperial College London Jeremy Yapp, Head of Flexible Energy Systems at BEAMA The event was chaired by Tom Sasse, Associate Director at the Institute for Government.