Stellantis, Vauxhall'nin ana fabrikasını kapatmayı planlıyor. Bu karar, hükümetin elektrikli araç satış hedefleri nedeniyle alınıyor. 1,100 iş yaratıcının güvenli olması kritik bir konu.
Vauxhall 's parent company Stellantis has announced plans to close its van plant in Luton, days after it warned the government that it could slash production in Britain over Labour's tough electric vehicle sales targets.
For each purely petrol or diesel car sold beyond the target, car firms will be fined £15,000 - and £18,000 for each van. Car bosses had warned this was unsustainable, even as Labour's transport secretary Louise Haigh refused to back off on the targets. Ellesmere Port in Cheshire is already primed to produce electric vehicles. The move comes after Stellantis warned it may cut UK production in response to EV sales targets
It will also invest £50million in Ellesmere Port to pick up production from Luton. The Cheshire facility already produces smaller electric vans like the Citroen e-Berlingo and the Vauxhall Combo Electric. Workers at the Stellantis plant in Luton are represented by trade union Unite, which will begin consulting with Stellantis bosses tomorrow.
Labour MP for Luton South and South Beds Rachel Hopkins called the news 'deeply troubling', adding: 'The Vauxhall plant is part of the fabric of Luton's heritage and vital to our local economy. He said that, together with Transport Secretary Louise Haigh, he was looking at the ZEV mandate, stressing that the change to electric should not come at the expense of British industry.
Local Labour MP Rachel Hopkins called the news 'deeply troubling' - and referred to the Luton plant's long history in the town What is the zero-emission vehicle mandate? Passed into law under Rishi Sunak's Conservative government, the zero-emission vehicle mandate requires manufacturers to increase the share of zero emission cars they sell each year.
Advertisement The £300million is understood to include over £200m of investment in chargepoints for electric vehicles, and £120million next year to encourage professionals to invest in electric vans. As of October, battery electric vehicles made up 18.1 of the UK's new car sales market - suggesting firms are falling massively short.
'An urgent review of the regulation as well as measures to improve the UK's competitiveness through an Industrial Strategy must now be the priority else the opportunities for growth this transition presents, will be lost.' Vauxhall is already making smaller electric vans like the Combo at the Ellesmere Port plant in Cheshire
Read More EV sales targets will cost jobs, warn Nissan and Vauxhall, as demand plunges and car makers slash prices Under the mandate, 22 per cent of all vehicles sold this year have to be BEVs - either purely electric or hydrogen-fuelled. Chancellor Olaf Scholz has hit out at the European Union's zero emission vehicle plans, which require manufacturers to reduce the emissions from their new cars and vans by 15 per cent compared to 2021 levels by next year.
Germany has a vested interest in protecting car firms from fines: its car industry is solely responsible for an estimated five per cent of GDP, and is home to huge names including Audi, BMW, Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz. Ford last week said it would cut 800 jobs in the UK as it cut back on the production of some of its electric models - after pledging to go fully electric by 2030, scrapping cars like the Fiesta while resurrecting the Capri as an electric 'coupe SUV'.
It comes as Jaguar has 'sunsetted' its petrol models after pledging to go fully electric by 2030 - keeping only the electric I-Pace on the production line as it rolls out a hugely divisive rebrand. Robert Forrester, chief executive of car dealership chain Vertu Motors, warned in September car firms were also having to deliberately delay the delivery of non-electric cars into next year to get close to the ZEV mandate goal.
Research by This is Money suggests some of the biggest car firms and groups are falling behind on targets for battery electric vehicle sales
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