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UK Car Industry in Crisis? Costs, EVs & Competitiveness Explained

Geoff Riley

26th March 2025

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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?

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty 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 and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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