A real industrial strategy needs to be composed of something a bit more substantial than some hot air to get through the next news cycle, otherwise this is where you end up:
> One of the benefits of Brexit was meant to be escaping from the straitjacket of EU state aid rules which limited the amount of support governments could give to favoured industries. Mr Hawes conceded the UK could be in the unenviable position of offering less support to crucial industries than we did before we left the EU.
> The UK currently only has one Chinese-owned battery plant next to the Nissan factory in Sunderland, while 35 plants are planned or already under construction in the EU.
Good.
Do you need a new car every couple of years? Old banger when looked after can last for decades. Have a look how they do it in Cuba 🙂
Plus all the deal with producing new steel, new plastics, new everything.
Sad about the jobs. But new cars? Only rich people and morons buy them. I’ll keep driving my 1999 Nissan thanks
If you go to Coventry motor museum you’ll see that motor manufacturing died in this country in the 60s. We went from glorious looking machines each a work of art and fit for a king to mass produced sardine tins with wheels on.
The comments on these kinds of posts are always weird. There’s a couple of things that shouldn’t need to be stated, but I will do so for the benefit of all:
1. People who buy new cars every few years sell the old car on. They don’t get crushed and landfilled at 2-3 years old.
2. Buying second hand makes sense for most people. However, the existence of second hand cars requires other people to buy new cars and then sell them.
3. It’s disingenuous to attribute all of the environmental costs of a car to its first owner. Unlike most goods, it is normal for cars to have multiple owners thought their lives. They all bear a portion of responsibility for the existence of the car.
4. New car supply is a bit more important than usual right now, as it is allowing the transition to electric drivetrains.
With electric vehicles becoming the future growth, collapse of British volt and other battery startups.
Car manufacturing will be US, EU and China depending on how robust their supply chains including for batteries right?
If we are waiting for the UK government to aggressively support new industrial policy to help UK catch up….
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A real industrial strategy needs to be composed of something a bit more substantial than some hot air to get through the next news cycle, otherwise this is where you end up:
> One of the benefits of Brexit was meant to be escaping from the straitjacket of EU state aid rules which limited the amount of support governments could give to favoured industries. Mr Hawes conceded the UK could be in the unenviable position of offering less support to crucial industries than we did before we left the EU.
> The UK currently only has one Chinese-owned battery plant next to the Nissan factory in Sunderland, while 35 plants are planned or already under construction in the EU.
Good.
Do you need a new car every couple of years? Old banger when looked after can last for decades. Have a look how they do it in Cuba 🙂
Plus all the deal with producing new steel, new plastics, new everything.
Sad about the jobs. But new cars? Only rich people and morons buy them. I’ll keep driving my 1999 Nissan thanks
If you go to Coventry motor museum you’ll see that motor manufacturing died in this country in the 60s. We went from glorious looking machines each a work of art and fit for a king to mass produced sardine tins with wheels on.
The comments on these kinds of posts are always weird. There’s a couple of things that shouldn’t need to be stated, but I will do so for the benefit of all:
1. People who buy new cars every few years sell the old car on. They don’t get crushed and landfilled at 2-3 years old.
2. Buying second hand makes sense for most people. However, the existence of second hand cars requires other people to buy new cars and then sell them.
3. It’s disingenuous to attribute all of the environmental costs of a car to its first owner. Unlike most goods, it is normal for cars to have multiple owners thought their lives. They all bear a portion of responsibility for the existence of the car.
4. New car supply is a bit more important than usual right now, as it is allowing the transition to electric drivetrains.
With electric vehicles becoming the future growth, collapse of British volt and other battery startups.
Car manufacturing will be US, EU and China depending on how robust their supply chains including for batteries right?
If we are waiting for the UK government to aggressively support new industrial policy to help UK catch up….