According to the think-tank, UK is producing 1 million fewer cars than it was a decade ago.<\/p>\n
Former Conservative minister Lord Redwood told the People’s Channel: \u201cFacts4EU are right to expose the deliberate destruction of a whole industry in the name of Net Zero.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis country has long been an important centre for making petrol and diesel cars. The EU and government policy has been – and is – to close every plant making these vehicles and to ban new ones by 2030.<\/p>\n
\u201cMr Miliband insists on this unique harm even after the EU has relented slightly and given the industry five more years of life on the continent.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy does the UK government want to do this and why has the industry been accomplice to this disaster for jobs and consumer choice?\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the International Atomic Energy\u2019s latest report, China continues to dominate production of electric cars, while the UK has hit reverse, despite billions in taxpayer subsidies. <\/p>\n
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According to the think-tank, UK is producing 1 million fewer cars than it was a decade ago<\/p>\n
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The Chinese produced 12 million electric cars in 2024, which was 70 per cent of global production, while the UK produced 80,000.<\/p>\n
While countries such as the United States and European Union member states slap tariffs on electric cars, the UK does not, as Ed Miliband is keen on getting electric vehicles on British roads.<\/p>\n
Lord Redwood continued: \u201cThe government ordered the industry to produce battery cars. This requires completely new assembly lines, factories and suppliers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe UK is miles behind China in designing and developing EVs. The UK did not move quickly to secure supplies of lithium, rare earths, cobalt, copper, nor to put in battery-making capacity. The Chinese did.<\/p>\n
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The UK’s contribution to the electric car market is minute in comparison to other China and the EU<\/p>\n
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\u201cSo today the Government encourages mass imports of cheaper battery cars from China tariff-free alongside importing their solar panels and wind turbines.<\/p>\n
\u201cNet Zero policies are de-industrialising the UK at a terrifying pace, with Mr Miliband the cheerleader.<\/p>\n
\u201cJaguar is spending more than two years producing no cars at all and may emerge as a producer of very small numbers of very dear battery cars as a result of these policies.\u201d<\/p>\n
In recent years, Nissan has halved production in Sunderland, Honda closed its final factory in the UK, and Vauxhall only makes electric vans in the UK. <\/p>\n
Jaguar has stopped production of petrol and diesel cars, but it is building a battery plant in Somerset. Ford also closed its engine production in Wales, while Toyota runs on limited output in Burnaston.<\/p>\n
The automotive industry is a vital part of the UK economy. According to the SMMT\u2019s latest report, the inudstry made a \u00a392billion turnover, \u00a325billion in value added to the UK economy, and \u00a35billion in Research and Development (R&D) investments, with 183,000 people employed directly in manufacturing and 796,000 across the wider automotive industry.<\/p>\n
Many of these jobs are outside London and the South-East, with wages higher than the UK average.<\/p>\n
The sector accounts for 13.4 per cent of total UK exports of goods, selling to more than 140 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The true impact of Britain’s drive towards Net Zero has been revealed, with the nation’s \u00a392billion car industry…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,1001],"class_list":{"0":"post-35855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-membership"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116570554596803290","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}