The production of cars in the United Kingdom has fallen to its lowest for more than 70 years to worry about the country’s economy and an industry that has taken a series of blows in recent years.
April data, published on Friday through the Society for Motor Fabricaters and Traders, said 59,203 cars were manufactured in the country. The figure was the lowest production in April for more than 70 years, if 2020 is excluded. That year, government restrictions COVID-19 really closed production.
The April 15. 8% figure decreases that the same month last year, and a quarter less than March, when the figures were probably stimulated through the struggle brands to export more cars in the United States before the imminent resolution of President Donald Trump in the rates of the foreign industry.
The production of cars for particular for exports fell by 10. 1% in April due to the fall in the largest export markets in the United Kingdom, the United States and the EU.
The lowest launch in April before the newest edition of SMMT Knowledge, if the knowledge of the pandemic is excluded, in 1952 when 53,517 cars occurred. The organization also said that the total number of cars made in the United Kingdom during the first 4 months of this year is the lowest in its record since 2009.
The SMMT said that a safe number of points was the fall in production, adding the costs imposed through the United States and the time for Easter holidays.
However, a replacement in the point of the United Kingdom and Europe in the industry, because it is suffering from concepts to administer a slow passage of gasoline cars to electric cars that will also be blamed for the “temporarily reduced output,” he added.
This is a challenge that is not exclusive in the United Kingdom, with car brands in other European centers such as France, Germany and Italy that suffer strategic concerns.
“The new industry in the United Kingdom with the EU, the United States and India offers the possibilities of long -term expansion, but the pressing action is mandatory for the competitiveness of British manufacturing,” warned the SMMT.
In 2024, Stellantis, the manufacturer of Vauxhall, Citroen and Peugeot brands, warned that it would possibly have to prevent production in the United Kingdom due to uncertainty about the technique of the British government to electric vehicles. In recent years, the country has also noticed that Ford and Honda close its automotive production factories.
Responding to the data, Mike Hawes, CEO of SMMT, said: “The production of cars that I experience with its maximum begins since 2009, the pressing action is to develop a national call and our foreign competitiveness.
“The Government has identified the critical role of automotive production in the behavior of the United Kingdom economy, after having negotiated advanced advertising situations for the sector with the United States, the EU and India in the month. “
But to take advantage of these advertising opportunities, the brands of the United Kingdom cars will have to download more investments that will have the competitiveness and confidence that can be provided through a long -term advertising strategy in full and avant -garde, Hawes added.
“Get this and jobs, economic expansion and decarbonisation [in automotive manufacturing] will cross the UK. “