U K Chosen Ahead Of The E U S S R For Major Battery Factory......

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65698529
...no doubt our 5Cers will find a way to spin it as a bad thing.

[10ClarionSt]

Air "pollution" has never harmed anyone. We had the introduction of lead free petrol. What a health benefit that was going to be! Then we had the CC. This was definitely going to improve the air quality. And still we get outrageous statements from the Mayor of London and others saying the ULEZ will save 4,000 lives a year, when no-one can prove that as fact.

[1ozzy]

//Air "pollution" has never harmed anyone//

I rest my case your honour.

[10ClarionSt]

There is no proof, yer 'onor. Where is the proof?

[youngmafbog]

And true to form all the "5Cers" come out.

Why do people want our country to fail? Who can be so dogmatic about something that they would love disaster on all just to prove a point?

Honestly the obdurate Remainers on here are sometimes beyond belief.

[Ryzen]

Without artificial assistance regarding energy prices, EV's will die a certain death.

[retrocop]

I wish Khan would die a certain death before August.

[New Judge]

//Without artificial assistance regarding energy prices, EV's will die a certain death.//

And there's some doubt about prohibiting the sale of IC cars in 2030 as well. This is because of the lack of charging points.

[Ryzen]

I was in a BMW dealership 2 weeks ago and the sales manager told me he had an e-mail from his boss 'advising' against taking any EV in part ex..unless it was well below bottom book price.

[douglas9401]

It's all BS, all of it, every projection, statement and aspiration.

Utter garbage spouted over and over again until it gains traction.

Next stop, 'Harmful electromagnetic emissions from older EVs will result in a tax on them from 20??'.

[retrocop]

Then you’ll get pay per mile in your EVs and 15 minute cities.

[youngmafbog]

That about sums it up Douglas.

Now just tell thet to the JSO econ morons.

At some point in time we will need to move away from fossil fuels, but this cant be done over night (or even 2030) without plunging huge swathes of the poorest in society into fuel poverty.

This is why I find it so odd labour press it, it is their voters in the main who will suffer. I and other similar people will not.

[Ryzen]

So is £500/800m a good investment...or do the Spaniards know better?

[Ryzen]

Electric cars are an expensive way to save money!

[douglas9401]

'They' couldn't manage to switch off analogue radio after much trumpetry of digital this and digital that.

Extended for ten years a while back and I'll bet 50p there's another extension in the wings.

Lazy, incompetent, self-serving wasters running the whole show.

[youngmafbog]

Pretty much sums up the 'civil' service.

[tomus42]

OK, so we've established that everyone on answerbank hates electric cars.
Meanwhile, back to the 'question'. Is it good that a factory to build batteries for them will be built here instead of Spain?

[jno]

you have to assume the British government has done its sums and decided the subsidies will be outweighed by the profits. You also have to assume that the Spanish have reached the opposite conclusion.

[tomus42]

No you don't. You have to assume that they did their sums, offered what they thought worked for them, and it turned out to be less than what we thought worked for us.

[jno]

I thought that was what I said.

[ClareTG0ld]

// OK, so we've established that everyone on answerbank hates electric cars.//

Not everyone, this was the part of the story I found most uplifting.

Also, it goes without saying really that "Air 'pollution' has never harmed anyone" is the exact opposite of the truth: it's a major contribution to around 7 million premature deaths annually, and multiple studies have found it to be linked to other major health risks. Not to mention that it also has similar effects on plant and animal life.

As for the specific example of lead-free petrol, see https://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=40226&Cr=pollutant&Cr1=#.UZdkooJAsR4 . TLDR, yes it's obviously had huge benefits.