SMMT: March new car market sustains growth as manufacturers shore up electrified demand New car registrations rise 10.4% in best March since 2019 and 20th consecutive month of growth April 4, 2024 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Share via Email The UK new car market clocked u...
Since January, UK car makers have now turned out a combined 239,773 electrified vehicles, with 71.8% of them exported to global markets. Overall, volumes for both domestic and export markets declined in October, down -4.7% and -17.6% respectively, with eight-in-10 cars shipped abroa...
The shift to electrified vehicles is the biggest challenge facing the sector, SMMT says. Government is already working with industry to attract additional battery manufacturing to the UK but the report calls for a binding target of 60 GWh of battery capacity be built by 2030. These ‘gigafactori...
500 jobs reliant on UK diesel engine production Total units ￡8.5billion turnover value in light vehicle engine production 17 UK INVESTMENT IN ELECTRIFIED VEHICLE PRODUCTION AND RD SINCE 2011 North West Scotland ￡3.44bn ￡62m Bentley, Ford, Stellantis, Jaguar Land Rover Alexander Dennis Northern ...
A parade of EVs running through central London announced the publication of SMMT’s Electrified blueprint for EV adoption. The CV Show was successfully held in August after its postponement in 2020. Feedback from stand holders was very positive with many noting the higher quality of attendees ...
The fundamentals of the sector are strong; a highly skilled workforce, engineering excellence, a sector that is embracing new electrified vehicle manufacturing and wide ranging capabilities in the EV supply chain. To take advantage of global opportunities, however, we must scale up at pace and ...
Based on the SMMT data, Slough is Britain’s zero-emission van capital, having both the highest percentage of electrified van registrations (2.2%) and the highest total number (2,087). Mike Hawes, SMMT Chief Executive, said: The past year has highlighted how much...
In line with overall figures, the majority of these models were exported, evidence of the importance of not only producing increasing numbers of electrified cars but of ensuring free and fair trading arrangements with markets around the world. Mike Hawes, SMMT Chief Executive, said, A positive ...
A deal that failed to achieve this would be the equivalent to no deal at all, devastating jobs and slamming the brakes on the UK’s ambitions to be a world leading manufacturer and market for electrified mobility and battery technologies. Aut...
UK production of the latest electrified vehicles continued apace with plug-in hybrids, hybrids and battery electric cars combined representing more than a quarter (25.8%) of all production in the month, or 15,905 units. The news comes after fresh SMMT analysis publis...