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Network Rail: Motor Vehicles

Answer

Network Rail’s ‘Our ambition for a low-emission railway’, published in 2020, committed Network Rail to change 25 per cent of its car fleet to ultra-low emissions vehicles (ULEV) by 2022.

The table below shows the operational expenditure for transitioning 25 per cent of the Network Rail car fleet to ultra-low emissions vehicles. The figures represent the uplift in leasing costs from a traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle to a ULEV model. It is important to note that the uplift in leasing costs is not just due to ULEV vehicles being more expensive than a traditional ICE, but also that they will be newer vehicles so representing inflationary changes in vehicle costs over a number of years.

	4-weekly rail period additional leasing costs	Annual additional leasing costs
25% of car fleet	£85,365	£1,109,745

The 25 per cent target was achieved and ULEVs currently equate to 37 per cent of the Network Rail car fleet.

Network Rail aims to achieve a 100% zero emission fleet. In order to achieve that, investment is needed in charging infrastructure. The data below, broken down according to regional and functional level, shows the capital costs for the associated infrastructure being installed for a full battery-electric vehicle fleet; the figures run only to 2027, starting from 2023.

EV Rollout Funding (£m)
	Capex
Eastern	11.7
North West & Central	17
Southern	20
Wales & Western	20.1
Scotland	16.2
Route Services	11.8
Total	96.8

The total spend so far on installing electric vehicle charging facilities across 10 per cent of passenger parking bays is £19,772,448 (Capex). This has delivered EV charging facilities across 7.8% of the total NR passenger parking bays so far.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

7249

Session

2026-27

Subjects

Expenditure Motor vehicles Carbon emissions Network Rail

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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