It will have to persuade people that making the switch won’t leave them out of pocket or at risk of being stranded on the side of the road.
Cycling
A push to get people out of cars and travelling on foot or by bicycle has been in the works for a while. Already announced are £5bn for buses and cycling and £4.2bn for public transport.
Money will be spent on 4,000 zero-emission buses and rail electrification, as well as more cycle lanes and low-traffic neighbourhoods, building on a scheme rolled out in councils across the country this year.
The Government says these changes have been popular but they haven’t been without their problems.
Jet Zero
The government is spending £15m on a study to examine the possibility of bringing zero-emission aircraft to the skies in 2030. Another £20m will go into exploring hydrogen-fuelled shipping.
As with most other uses of hydrogen fuel, these technologies are in their infancy.
While early electric planes are already taking flight, there’s some distance to go before they are commercially viable and supporting the level of traffic currently seen at UK airports.
Home heating
The Government is hoping to avoid having to force people to rip out their existing heating systems, envisaging a gradual transition as people replace their boilers over the next 15 years.
But by 2023 it is expected that gas-only boilers will be banned in new homes and 600,000 heat pumps will also be installed annually from 2028, first in homes off the gas grid, a technology some experts say is much more immediately viable than hydrogen, but expensive.