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According to foreign media reports, Britain plans to build an industry-leading car battery factory, intended to promote the development of the British electric vehicle and automotive industry, the United Kingdom dragged away from the European Union and diesel models "negative exposure" hurt the demand for British cars and employment in the automotive industry.

The UK's departure from the EU has led many companies to reconsider their investment plans, China's economic slowdown has also caused some impact and pressure on demand, and the UK itself is committed to reducing environmental pollution, so try to reduce sales of diesel models in order to reduce emissions and protect the environment.

In the past two months Jaguar Land Rover has announced that it will eliminate 4500 jobs, most of them in Britain. Nissan, however, subsequently cancelled plans to build the X-Trail at its Sandland plant in northern England. Honda said it would close its only UK factory in 2021. Ford Motor also issued a warning that if Britain must leave the EU, then I am afraid that all kinds of conditions in its British factories will not be optimistic.

Honda has stressed that it is important to develop the electric vehicle industry, but the most important key is how car companies allocate funds. It also claimed that the focus should be on the electric vehicle industry in Japan, which also shows that Honda will not regard Britain as an investment center, but focus on its own local field, focusing on developing and improving its electric vehicle industry, so it thinks that the attraction of the British market is not great.

Britain has indicated its attitude that it will regard the development and braking of electric vehicles as the core content of its automobile industry and regard it as an important step in the development strategy of the British automobile industry.

A British executive once said that Britain should not only develop a new generation of electric vehicles, but also establish relevant manufacturing facilities and configure corresponding manufacturing technologies, so as to better promote the development of electric vehicles and the automobile industry.

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