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Vauxhall UK plant safe with electric vehicle plan
The Ellesmere Port factory will get a £100m investment to build electric vehicles and protect 1,000 jobs.
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Vehicle manufacturers do not want to make electric vehicles. Harry Metcalfe says as much in his review of Audi's latest electric device the RS e-tron. They are being forced to make the switch by EU7 emissions regulations, just like consumers will be forced to make the switch post 2030 (if you decide you need to own a new vehicle). Does forcing people to do things ever work?With a massive bung from the uk tax payer, 40 million I believe. Vauxhall says without it, it wouldn’t have happened. Plus the hundred million or so for Nissan, not an insignificant amount, but how to you cherry pick which industries you help out with tax payers money British Leyland springs to mind.
All depends on how long the electric car is going to be touted as the saviour of the environment. How long did low CO 2 diesel last? 20 years?Of course it does. We are forced to do and pay for many things that I suspect very few of us would do voluntarily.
£40M to save quite a lot of jobs directly and otherwise seems like good value compared to the cost of the furlough scheme.
There is always a dominant lobby of one sort or another looking after their own interests. That dominant lobby is changing, or so it would seem. The move from an economic model based on mass consumption to a new model based on people living an aspirational green 'good life' via technological progress / scientific paradigms is what is proposed.I think the whole diesel thing just shows the power of the oil/vehicle manufacturers lobby. Anyone with half a brain and a nose could tell they were a bad idea. What we are seeing now is a response to a whole different set of pressures. Real threat of extinction being one of them.
Apart from Tesla, none of the manufacturers wanted EV - why upset that gravy train? A whole load of political shift has made them reconsider that position.
But the big car space with the small car fuel bills was irresistible to the buying public....I think the whole diesel thing just shows the power of the oil/vehicle manufacturers lobby. Anyone with half a brain and a nose could tell they were a bad idea. What we are seeing now is a response to a whole different set of pressures. Real threat of extinction being one of them.
Like 4 valves per cylinder and turbocharging, electrification arrived via the high performance end of the motoring spectrum. The first two became mainstream but were mere adaptations to the existing tech.Apart from Tesla, none of the manufacturers wanted EV - why upset that gravy train? A whole load of political shift has made them reconsider that position.
But seeing as this country is on the bones of its backside, a bit here and a bit there it all adds up. 1,000 jobs directly, good news for all those employed.£40M to save quite a lot of jobs directly and otherwise seems like good value compared to the cost of the furlough scheme.
That's an interesting article ChipChop - thanks.There is always a dominant lobby of one sort or another looking after their own interests. That dominant lobby is changing, or so it would seem. The move from an economic model based on mass consumption to a new model based on people living an aspirational green 'good life' via technological progress / scientific paradigms is what is proposed.
The aim of both models is the same. To foster demand and perpetuate mass consumption under a new 'green' guise. The use of existential threats such as disease/ extinction are used to facilitate this shift of economic model, imho.
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