BMW investment secures future of Mini factories
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Great news for Cowley and secondary industries, but the final few paragraphs sum it all up for me.
What is not yet known is where the batteries for the cars to be built at Cowley will come from. That could yet become a critical issue. From next year, new rules will effectively ensure that cars with batteries made outside either the UK or the EU will face steep tariffs when shipped across the Channel
After the farce of British Volt, what's on the horizon for domestic battery production?
What is not yet known is where the batteries for the cars to be built at Cowley will come from. That could yet become a critical issue. From next year, new rules will effectively ensure that cars with batteries made outside either the UK or the EU will face steep tariffs when shipped across the Channel
After the farce of British Volt, what's on the horizon for domestic battery production?
PurpleTurtle said:
Great news for Cowley and secondary industries, but the final few paragraphs sum it all up for me.
What is not yet known is where the batteries for the cars to be built at Cowley will come from. That could yet become a critical issue. From next year, new rules will effectively ensure that cars with batteries made outside either the UK or the EU will face steep tariffs when shipped across the Channel
After the farce of British Volt, what's on the horizon for domestic battery production?
Cowley AND Swindon where the MINI Panel Plant is located. https://www.bmwgroup.jobs/gb/en/location/location-...What is not yet known is where the batteries for the cars to be built at Cowley will come from. That could yet become a critical issue. From next year, new rules will effectively ensure that cars with batteries made outside either the UK or the EU will face steep tariffs when shipped across the Channel
After the farce of British Volt, what's on the horizon for domestic battery production?
PurpleTurtle said:
Great news for Cowley and secondary industries, but the final few paragraphs sum it all up for me.
What is not yet known is where the batteries for the cars to be built at Cowley will come from. That could yet become a critical issue. From next year, new rules will effectively ensure that cars with batteries made outside either the UK or the EU will face steep tariffs when shipped across the Channel
After the farce of British Volt, what's on the horizon for domestic battery production?
Could JLR manufacturer batteries for other brands at the planned Somerset gigafactory?What is not yet known is where the batteries for the cars to be built at Cowley will come from. That could yet become a critical issue. From next year, new rules will effectively ensure that cars with batteries made outside either the UK or the EU will face steep tariffs when shipped across the Channel
After the farce of British Volt, what's on the horizon for domestic battery production?
biggbn said:
This part of the article is rather important. .
The UK investment will be backed by funding from the government's Automotive Transformation Fund - understood to be worth £75m.
Just to clarify, the total of the Automotive Transformation Fund is £350M, the investment here is indeed £75M of that. Seesm good news, but the batteries will still be from China, which is not good on many levels, not least the 10% tarriff the cars should attract.. but maybe this will change...?The UK investment will be backed by funding from the government's Automotive Transformation Fund - understood to be worth £75m.
Zoon said:
So much for the manufacturing disappearing after Brexit then.
Some has, hence the great news for the Swindon plant as it should replace some of the jobs lost at the Honda plant in Swindon two years ago.The BMW plant in Swindon was opened as Pressed Steel Ltd in 1956 (the Pressed Steel Cowley plant opened in 1926) as part of a jont venture involving William Morris and took over from Great Western as the town's biggest employer.
poo at Paul's said:
biggbn said:
This part of the article is rather important. .
The UK investment will be backed by funding from the government's Automotive Transformation Fund - understood to be worth £75m.
Just to clarify, the total of the Automotive Transformation Fund is £350M, the investment here is indeed £75M of that. Seesm good news, but the batteries will still be from China, which is not good on many levels, not least the 10% tarriff the cars should attract.. but maybe this will change...?The UK investment will be backed by funding from the government's Automotive Transformation Fund - understood to be worth £75m.
https://www.acea.auto/press-release/inaction-on-eu...
Ronstein said:
Some has, hence the great news for the Swindon plant as it should replace some of the jobs lost at the Honda plant in Swindon two years ago.
The BMW plant in Swindon was opened as Pressed Steel Ltd in 1956 (the Pressed Steel Cowley plant opened in 1926) as part of a jont venture involving William Morris and took over from Great Western as the town's biggest employer.
The JLR battery plant is also quite a big deal.The BMW plant in Swindon was opened as Pressed Steel Ltd in 1956 (the Pressed Steel Cowley plant opened in 1926) as part of a jont venture involving William Morris and took over from Great Western as the town's biggest employer.
Zoon said:
So much for the manufacturing disappearing after Brexit then.
https://twitter.com/Jefferson_MFG/status/170112240...
Worth a read:
https://conservativepost.co.uk/bmws-announcement-t...
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