Will electrification of the UK automotive industry happen by 2035 – and what challenges need to be overcome?

Posted on 22 May 2020 by The Manufacturer

It is one of the great challenges of our time, bound up in our ambition as a nation to become carbon neutral by 2050. For the UK manufacturing sector, of which automotive is such a key part, failure is surely not an option. But neither is success guaranteed.

We asked experts from some of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult’s technology centres for their opinions. Professor David Greenwood, Head of the Advanced Propulsion Systems team, WMG at the University of Warwick: It is technically achievable to electrify passenger cars by 2035. But it’s going to need a massive amount of investment from three different…

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