Transportation
Stellantis Threatens to Pull Out of UK Over EV Sales Mandate
- Carmaker says current targets would force discounted sales
- Best-selling van maker has turned UK site into EV-only plant
workers assemble the base of an electric vehicle body in Ellesmere Port, England.
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Stellantis NV will quit making vehicles in the UK unless the government eases electric-vehicle sales targets, just months after retooling one of its British plants to make only battery-powered vans.
The zero-emissions vehicle sales targets are unsustainable, Maria Grazia Davino, the company’s managing director for the region, told reporters Tuesday. The comments come as the UK heads for a general election on July 4 with both the incumbent Conservative as well as the Labour Party set to stick with current electric sales targets.