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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jillian Ambrose

Over-reliance on China could hit UK energy supply chains ‘putting 90,000 jobs at risk’

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A Mini Cooper electric car on the production line at an assembly plant in Cowley near Oxford. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

Tens of thousands of jobs could be lost if the UK’s clean energy supply chains were to suffer a shock as a result of an over-reliance on China, a left-leaning thinktank has warned.

A year-long disruption to the supply of essential battery components used to manufacture electric vehicles could wipe out production of more than 580,000 electric cars and endanger 90,000 jobs, according to the Institute for Public Policy Research.

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