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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jasper Jolly

UK car industry’s 1m vehicles a year target slips by two years to 2025

worker on the production line at Nissan's factory in Sunderland in 2019
A range of problems is forecast to reduce the UK’s output of motor vehicles by 113,000 this year from its planned level. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA

The UK car industry has said it will not be able to produce a million vehicles a year until 2025, two years later than expected, after the global sector was hit by a string of crises.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Covid-19 lockdowns in China and continued shortages of computer chips have all combined to stall the recovery in car-making, leaving manufacturers unable to supply enough cars to willing buyers.

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