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The collapse of Britishvolt and the lack of EV battery manufacturing in the UK will probably be the final nail in the coffin of the UK car industry.
https://theconversation.com/britishv...-market-198104
Does Ford's strategy of shifting production bases pre-date Brexit? Yes. It also pre-dates Biden's re-shoring attempts. What's your point?
Brexit is killing UK car manufacturing. Here's the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/b...ry-brexit.html
It quotes CEOs on the issue.
The wording on the contracts was changed to must be made within the EU. All existing contracts remain in UK until around 2026, all new business nominated since 2018 has to be built within the boundaries of the EU
I started last April, this year it will be 50:50 with UK by end 2024 UK will only have the run out models
By 2026 it will be roughly a £600Million per annum loss to the British economy
Cos Drakeford is closing all the roads, Wales won't need cars?
No major road improvements, 20mph, and speed cameras everywhere, if you want to drive move to England, Wales will blame global warming, but it gives them money to waste on daft ideas for the sake of being different.
Don't pay the paramedics anymore in ten years they will have no roads to collect people or no hospital beds to take them to. leave them all to retire from natural wastage.
But what if you both have a point. Des has posted some stark evidence on Brexit's impact to go with the views you allude to.
However Ford seem to be retrenching back to a US focused future, encouraged by Biden's green investment subsidies. It's likely that the EU will respond with their own version for EU based manufacturers. That leaves "Global Britain" at risk of feeding off scraps in search of that ever more elusive Brexit dividend.
Surely the factors impacting cars is :
Uncertainty due to climate targets.
Manufacturing costs rises due to Covid.
Chinese continuing lockdown way after everyone else effecting supply routes.
Asian cars becoming very popular.
Ukraine war fuel price battles .
Second hand car market doing well ..
Who knows ????
The fuel crisis pushed the price of manufacturing and delivery costs, which pushed up prices, as did the global shipping problems from the covid lockdowns. While fuel and energy costs remain high inflation can't yet drop to pre covid levels they are moving to single digit figures.
Honda closed
JLR sales down around 80% plus now partially moved to Slovakia
Toyota & Mini sales down
JLR engine plant at Wolverhampton, stopped buying engines from Bridgend
Shortages, chip sets, tft, lcds, glass, steel, wood, packaging A pallet has increased from £6 to £11. The list is endless
We used to export around 70% into Europe, Germany, France, Belgium, Sweden, Spain, Italy, Slovakia plus
The majority of that is now made in Poland and our UK factory living off scraps from JLR & Mini
As someone who supported Brexit, there were plenty of levers that could have been pulled to benefit certain sectors. There were plenty of deals that could have been done.
the problem being that COVID completely took our focus away and then various other factors combined in it being incredibly more difficult. Who knows how Brexit would have panned out if that was our sole focus over the last few years.
However, it has become a complete shit show so far and won’t improve before the next GE.
A reminder here that from 2016 to 2021, France, Italy,Germany and the UK all have seen car production fall between 43 and 49%.
Clearly there is something else going on here.
Bridgend Ford closure :
The simple question is, if Brexit had never happened, would this decision be different, and the answer is no.”
In its official announcement, Ford said the proposed action was a "necessary step" to support Ford’s "global business redesign" and is part of the company’s strategy to create a more efficient and focused business in Europe.
In common with other vehicle-makers, the company is struggling to reshape its business as the world moves increasingly away from petrol and diesel and more toward electric and hybrid-powered vehicles.
Honda workers in Swindon are facing an uncertain future, the Nissan plant in Sunderland has missed out on making new models and Toyota, based in Derbyshire, has warned of the impact of Brexit on future production.
https://www.itv.com/news/2019-06-06/...-plant-in-2020
This guy doesn’t think much of Boris during Covid either
https://twitter.com/lozzafox/status/...oU1PMa2q-bKFXA
Remainers scuppered a good deal, Dominic Grieve, Yvette Cooper, and the rest were in cahoots with the EU to try and stop Brexit however they could and let the EU know what to expect and negotiate as bad a deal as they could to try and stop the wishes of the Country.
It's a bad deal, remainers have got their wish to leave the EU without all the benefits we should have been getting, they screwed us over, and we'll just have to get on with it.