An industry veteran says the UK needs to follow the US and EU in helping with the shift to electric cars.
The UK's car sector could disappear unless the government follows the US and EU in helping with the switch to electric, an industry veteran says.
He told the BBC's Today programme that the UK was "managing decline" in its car-making industry, but had a "last opportunity" to boost the sector and jobs in the move to electric vehicles. "You are into a period of either you compete... or you manage the decline of the British industry down to fundamentally next to zero," he said.
The UK government told the BBC officials were engaging with the US administration "to address serious concerns" about the IRA, as well as talking to other countries across the world "who are similarly affected".The latest comments come after Mr Hunt said the UK would not go toe-to-toe with its allies and get involved what he called "some distortive global subsidy race".
A similar strategy is also being tried in both the US and EU for restoring the production of critical microchips from East Asia. A part of plans to cut carbon emissions, the government has said sales of new petrol and diesel cars will be banned in the UK by 2030.
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