Electric Vehicles: Safety
Commons · Question 83179 · Tabled 17 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport · Official record
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Question
Asked by Steve Yemm
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what (a) monitoring and (b) enforcement mechanisms are in place to ensure manufacturers comply with the prohibition on pause functions in Audible Vehicle Alert Systems for new (i) electric and (ii) hybrid vehic
Answer
Answered by Simon Lightwood, 21 Oct 2025
All new vehicles are subject to type approval. Vehicle approval requirements were introduced on 1 July 2021 mandating Acoustic Vehicle Alerting System (AVAS) on new types of quiet electric and hybrid vehicles. The use of pause switched to temporarily disa...