Gashi Automobile News Data released by the British Automobile Manufacturers and Traders Association (SMMT) on September 26 showed that in August this year, British automobile production fell 8.
4% year-on-year to 41,271 units, the sixth consecutive month of decline.
Among them, the output of electric vehicles, including pure electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles and hybrid vehicles, also fell by 25.
9% year-on-year, causing the proportion of electric vehicles in overall vehicle production to drop from 37.
5% in July to 29.6%. SMMT said part of the decline in UK car production in August was due to factories cutting production of major models and reconfiguring production lines to produce new, mainly electric, models.
Moreover, due to the impact of summer stoppages in the UK, August has traditionally been a month with low car production in the UK.
SMMT said that so far this year, cumulative UK car production has dropped 8.
5% year-on-year to 522,823 units.
However, SMMT expects that the decline in British car production will be reversed in the long run with the launch of new models.
, Mike Hawes, CEO of SMMT, said: “SMMT remains optimistic that UK car production will resume growth because of record investment in the UK car industry announced last year.
” Photo source: SMMT, last year, the British automotive industry received an investment commitment of 24 billion pounds.
SMMT said this put the British automotive industry “back on the game.
” Jaguar Land Rover, Tata Motors, Nissan Motors and BMW Group have all issued investment announcements.
Among them, Nissan Motors alone plans to invest 2 billion pounds in its Sunderland factory to produce two electric vehicles.
Mike Hawes added that The UK’s Autumn budget on October 30 and the UK government’s proposed industrial strategy aimed at “increasing productivity through industrial and infrastructure investment” will be key to maintaining the competitiveness of the UK’s automotive industry.
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