The number of electric vehicles in Bradford went up 50 per cent last year, but only one in 200 cars in the district are electric
MORE motorists in Bradford are switching to greener electric vehicles, but the uptake of low emission vehicles is still less than half the national average.
The number of ultra-low emission vehicles registered in the district rose by 50 per cent last year, from 805 in 2019 to 1,240.
However green vehicles - battery electric, fuel cell electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles - still only account for 0.5 per cent of vehicles on the district’s roads, less than half the national average which stands at 1.1 per cent.