by #SarahGeorge in #Edie:

"The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has this week published a new manifesto for growing the EV industry rapidly in the coming years, delivering a tenfold increase in EV production to more than 750,000 vehicles per year by 2030.

"This level of increase is consistent with the UK’s legally binding climate commitments and its ban on new diesel and petrol car and van sales from 2030. It would, the SMMT states, deliver some £106bn of economic benefit to scale EV manufacturing this rapidly.

"This manifesto is, in part, intended to serve as a call to action for policymakers. The UK Government has been accused of squandering the EV opportunity by delaying the launch of subsidy packages to rival the US and EU; failing to guarantee affordable energy for manufacturers and not easing post-Brexit supply chain tensions."

https://www.edie.net/ev-manufacturing-uk-risks-squandering-106bn-opportunity/

#EV #UK #SMMT #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #climate #GlobalWarming #environment

The #UK does not have a single public electric charger or hydrogen refilling station dedicated to lorries, with fewer than 12 years until the first ban on diesel engines comes into force, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (#SMMT).
The lobby group said the lack of infrastructure “makes it impossible for the vast majority of operators to contemplate investments to decarbonise their fleets”.

Another nail in the government #NetZero coffin.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/apr/18/uk-has-no-public-electric-charger-or-hydrogen-refilling-station-solely-for-hgvs

I used to have to (until about 2013) analyse the latest SMMT UK car manufacturing data on a quarterly basis.

I have seen some peaks and troughs in some months or quarters. I have never seen an overall collapse like this.

Almost 80% of these are made for export (almost 58% to EU) so car exports are significantly down (14% in 2022 alone).

https://www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data/manufacturing/

#UK #Manufacturing #Cars #Exports #Trade #Brexit #SMMT