UK jobs are at risk next year if import tariffs are imposed on UK-built electric cars sold in Europe, says the firm’s owner Stellantis, as UK industry voices clamour for more government policy support over the transition to electric vehicle manufacturing.
Yesterday Stellantis told a parliamentary committee that British car factories will be forced to close at a cost of thousands of jobs, if the government fails to urgently renegotiate local content rules in the Brexit deal, which begin to bite from next year.
"If the cost of EV manufacturing in the UK becomes uncompetitive and unsustainable, operations will close”, the Stellantis submission to parliament made clear.
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