United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 83179
Electric Vehicles: Safety
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17 October 2025
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21 October 2025 · Answer
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Summary
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
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17 October 2025
Written question
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
Source: Commons
21 October 2025
Answer
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...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-10-17/83179
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1842532
- uk · wq-1842532 · source updated 21 October 2025