Stellantis last week put a gun on the table and threatened to take out its UK manufacturing facilities if the Government didn’t change its position on the ZEV mandate. Publicly threatening to axe UK manufacturing has become the preferred negotiating tactic by global car makers who, for whatever reason, feel they aren’t being heard through the normal back channels.
” Recent history has shown however that faced with a credible threat, the UK government will generally give the vehicle makers what they want. Stellantis for example was ready to pull out of Ellesmere Port following the end of Astra production until the Government stepped in with a reported £30 million of the £100m retooling cost to make EVs. If Stellantis really wanted to divest itself of Ellesmere Port, that would have been the moment, one senior industry figure told Autocar.
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