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Evening Standard
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Neil Lancefield

Car makers call for planned easing of electricity costs to go further

The SMMT called for the proposed relief on standing charges included in the Industrial Strategy to be extended to automotive manufacturing (PA) - (PA Archive)

Government measures to ease industrial electricity costs should go further to help end the “structural disadvantage” faced by UK automotive companies, a representative body said.

The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) called for the proposed relief on standing charges included in the Industrial Strategy published on Monday – which will apply to battery manufacturing – to be extended to automotive manufacturing.

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