Under the trade deal agreed when Britain left the EU, 45% of the value of an electric vehicle (EV) sold in the EU must come from Britain or the EU from 2024 to avoid tariffs.
pack can account for up to half a new EV's cost and Europe has not yet developed a big enough battery industry of its own — and is unlikely to do so by the end of 2023, the VDA association said in a statement.
Tariffs both on exports to Britain and imports from it would be"a significant competitive disadvantage for the European car industry in relation to its Asian competitors in the so important UK market", it said. They would also represented a"danger for the development of e-mobility" as they would hurt the whole EU supply chain including battery makers, causing Europe to fall further behind as a production site.with the loss of thousands of jobs if the issue was not addressed."We hope to be able to come to a resolution with the EU on this," Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's spokesperson told reporters on Wednesday.
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