The UK Automotive industry generates more than £100 billion in trade annually and is Britain’s biggest exporter of industrial goods, supporting thousands of vital skilled jobs. That success is fuelled by innovation, so automotive is a major investor in R&D – making it crucial to UK plc, and a key partner in helping the UK to reach its ambitious environmental targets.
The automotive industry’s commitment to sustainable business growth and emissions reduction has been another point of continuity through a time of change. This report highlights how the sector delivered on those commitments throughout 2019, and continues to strive to do so, despite myriad challenges from ambitious net zero goals, Brexit uncertainty and, of course, an unprecedented global pandemic.
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- 24 signatories contributed to this 21st report, the longest standing sector sustainability report available.
- Water use per vehicle produced up 5.5%
- Waste to landfill per vehicle produced down -23.2%
- Relative energy up 3.2%
- CO2 per vehicle produced down -2.6%
- Cars average CO2 emissions up 2.7% to 127.9G/KM
- Alternatively Fuelled Vehicle registrations 7.4% market share in 2019
- 1.6% were Battery Electric Vehicles and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles
- Sectoral jobs down -1.5%
- Employee accidents down -41%
- Training days per employee up 1.1%
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It is critical we secure a sustainable recovery for automotive as a strategic industry as well as restore the competitiveness of the UK as a place to invest, lead in future technologies and strengthen consumer demand to end the recent decline. We hope our asks can deliver not just for the breadth of
automotive but for the UK’s ambition to restore the country back to growth, lead a green recovery and level up across the regions. Our priority areas are:
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- Autocraft (Autocraft)
- Autoelectro (Autoelectro)
- Aston Martin Lagonda (Aston Martin, Lagonda)
- Bentley Motors Ltd (Bentley)
- BMW Group UK (BMW, MINI, Rolls-Royce)
- Bosch (Bosch)
- Carwood (Carwood)
- Caterpillar (Caterpillar, Perkins)
- Ford Motor Company Limited (Ford)
- General Motors UK Ltd (Vauxhall, Opel and Holden)
- Honda (UK) and Honda of the UK Manufacturing Limited (Honda)
- IBC Vehicles Ltd (Vauxhall, Opel)
- Jaguar Land Rover Ltd (Jaguar Cars, Land Rover)
- Leyland Trucks (DAF Trucks)
- Lotus (Lotus)
- McLaren (McLaren)
- Michelin Tyre plc (Michelin)
- Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Limited and Nissan Technology Centre Group (Infiniti, Nissan)
- Optare (Optare)
- PSA Group (Citroen, Peugeot, DS Automobiles)
- Robert Bosch (Bosch)
- Toyota (GB) plc and Toyota Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd (Lexus, Toyota)
- Unipart (Unipart Logistics)
- Volkswagen Group (UK) Ltd (Audi, SEAT, Skoda, Volkswagen Passenger Cars, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles)
- Volvo Car UK Ltd (Volvo)
