In an important development for the electric vehicles Europe, there has been a call from the car lobby in United Kingdom for taking urgent action for helping the industry transition into the electric vehicle production including the support for the high energy costs, investments and tax reforms particularly when it comes to the charging infrastructure.
The electric vehicle Europe association has not commented so far, but the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders have said that the UK auto industry is going to face multiple threats as it is going to shift away from the fossil-fuel technology including the economic instability, trade protectionism, cost of living crisis, skill shortage and soaring cost of the energy already close to 80% higher than the European average.
The country’s car industry is also facing a challenge related to Brexit under the rules of origin agreed with the EU starting in the year 2024, a rising proportion of a particular vehicle would have to be made locally. Therefore, Britain is going to be under pressure to build the battery supply chain of Electric vehicles.
The UK government efforts thus fac have been fostering less results as only one motor electric vehicle factory project has come up and that too has failed to gain any traction with the investors.
The industry employs close to 170,000 people and they could be in trouble without enough plants to work on. This is going to come as the former Prime Minister of the country, Boris Johnson has been pushing for a UK ban on the new combustion engine models by the year 2030.
SMMT said that it wanted the government plan to ensure the competitiveness, attract the investment and driving skills, innovation and the long-term growth.
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The group said that this should include an extended support for the energy costs and help for the struggling businesses.