Transport minister orders urgent safety review after concerns that electric vehicles stopping on busy roads could cause accidents
Baroness Vere, a transport minister, said she was “astonished” to discover that electric vehicles tend to “stop very suddenly” when they cease to function, rather than coasting like conventional cars, and that they can take longer to be removed from motorways.
The Department for Transport is examining “short-term measures” to ensure electric cars can be removed from roads quickly when they break down, the peer revealed.
Baroness Vere disclosed details of the review during a House of Lords debate on smart motorways, which use hard shoulders as live lanes. The Sunday Telegraph has exposed serious safety concerns about the roads.
Speaking in the debate, Baroness Randerson, a Liberal Democrat transport spokesman said: “When an electric vehicle ceases to function, it stops; it does not coast in the way that other vehicles do.
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