{"id":733095,"date":"2026-08-10T03:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T03:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733095\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T03:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T03:22:09","slug":"uk-announces-nearly-130-million-funding-for-zero-emission-vehicle-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733095\/","title":{"rendered":"UK announces nearly \u00a3130 million funding for zero-emission vehicle technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published Mon, Aug 10, 2026 \u00b7 09:01 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">[LONDON] The British government announced nearly \u00a3130 million (US$175 million) in funding for zero-emission vehicle technologies on Monday (Aug 10), with almost \u00a365 million in public money and the rest provided by the industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Nearly \u00a350 million in government funding will be awarded to auto firms and research partners to develop and scale zero-emission vehicle technologies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">A further \u00a317 million injected into nine connected and automated mobility projects, covering technologies including sensors, brake-by-wire systems and AI simulation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">\u201cBritain invented the modern motor industry and we\u2019re determined to ensure the next generation of vehicles are designed and built here too,\u201d Industry Minister Blair McDougall said in a statement announcing the funding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6 inline-block\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Britain is committed to ending sales of new cars powered solely by petrol or diesel from 2030, with all new cars required to be zero-emission by 2035. REUTERS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published Mon, Aug 10, 2026 \u00b7 09:01 AM [LONDON] The British government announced nearly \u00a3130 million (US$175 million)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9114,59,57,58,1909,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-733095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-greenhouse-gas-emissions","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}