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Ralf Speth is concerned delays in the supply chain could halt production and repeats warnings a hard Brexit could cost £1.2bn.
David Bailey examines the potential impact of new ‘rules of origin’ requirements for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) under the Brexit trade deal, arguing that tariffs on UK-EU BEV trade would be self-defeating when both the UK and the EU are trying to encourage a switch to electric vehicles in order to reach net zero.
David Bailey looks at the implications of BMW’s decision to stop producing the electric MINI at its Oxford plant and sets out what the decisions tells us about the UK automotive industry post-Brexit.
As the prospect of no deal looms, even the promises of aid offered by the May government seem a distant memory.
The sector issues a final plea for a no-deal Brexit to be avoided at all costs, saying the prospect is already hitting jobs.
Conservative minister Richard Harrington has urged Theresa May to rule out a no-deal Brexit, as the prime minister prepares to outline her alternative plans to parliament.
News comes as Jaguar Land Rover reveals plans to shut UK plants in April due to potential disruption.
'...my self-imposed task of documenting the Brexit impact has become a challenge not so much because of the difficultly of weighing up the positives and the negatives, but rather due to the sheer amount of damage Brexit is doing up and down the country, left, right and centre, and across sectors.'
UK’s four main manufacturing sites, employing 18,500 people, closed from Monday to Friday.
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) CEO Ralf Speth has issued a warning to the UK government that a so-called hard Brexit could cost the company £1.2 billion per year in tariffs and ultimately force it out of the UK.
The current Brexit deal is “unrealistic and counterproductive” for electric car manufacturing and needs to be changed, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has warned.
Jaguar Land Rover is reportedly planning to cut around 5,000 jobs in the new year as it seeks to mitigate the impact of Brexit, the decline of diesel cars and slow sales in China. The move would save the company £2.5bn.
The car manufacturer had made the plans in line with the UK's original EU leave date.
Britain’s biggest carmaker, Jaguar Land Rover, will halt production at its British factories for a week in November, its boss said on Thursday, joining BMW and Toyota in plans to help mitigate any immediate disruption from a no-deal Brexit.
Alarm raised after Nissan decision to halt expansion of Sunderland car plant.
Jeremy Hunt has offered one of Britain’s biggest car manufacturers half a billion pounds in government subsidies not to go abroad to build a new electric battery “giga-factory”.
Hostile immigration policies will do untold damage to the UK’s manufacturing industry. It is baffling that the government is willing to implement such a strategy, says Lord Bilimoria.
Letter revealing the financial support is finally released – more than two years after No 10 insisted had been no ‘special deal’.
Even if there is no second wave of coronavirus to shut down factories once again, British car production in 2020 will only recover to about a half of last year’s figure, says industry body.
Britain’s car industry warned the next prime minister on Tuesday against a “seismic” no-deal Brexit in October, which it said could add billions of pounds in tariffs and cause border disruption, crippling the sector.

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