Getting the green light - The path to a fair transition for the transport sector - Adam Corlett,  Zachary Leather & Jonathan Marshall

Resolution Foundation Getting the green light | The path to a fair transition for the transport sector 17 FIGURE 4: Most of the operational savings from the transition to net zero are in the transport sector Proportion of total forecast annual operation. [...] Resolution Foundation Getting the green light | The path to a fair transition for the transport sector 19 Section 2 Getting more electric cars on the road should be the priority The dominance of cars in UK travel means that decarbonising the vehicle stock is the clear policy priority for cutting transport emissions. [...] Resolution Foundation Getting the green light | The path to a fair transition for the transport sector 31 The unaffordability of used EVs for poorer drivers, and therefore their inability to capture the benefits of electric motoring, has prompted calls for intervention in the second. [...] Resolution Foundation Getting the green light | The path to a fair transition for the transport sector 35 The main benefits of the EV transition accrue from lower running costs The main financial upside of EVs – and of the net zero transition at large – are those that accrue from the lower running costs associated with electric motoring. [...] Some point to so-called ‘modal shift’ – the substitution of cars Resolution Foundation Getting the green light | The path to a fair transition for the transport sector 46 for trains and buses – as a key part of this.62 Indeed, this was even part of the previous Government’s thinking on transport decarbonisation and was part of the policy package recommended to the Government by the CCC in 2020.63.