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UK Car Industry in Crisis? Costs, EVs & Competitiveness Explained
26th March 2025
Why is the UK car industry stalling while the global market races ahead? In this video, we take a deep dive into one of the UK’s most important manufacturing sectors — an industry worth over £67 billion, employing nearly 800,000 people, and exporting £30 billion worth of vehicles annually. But… car production in the UK has fallen sharply. What’s gone wrong?
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.
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