Aston Martin Is Furious About The UK's 'Disastrous Or Pointless' Internal Combustion Ban
The internal combustion ban is ‘either disastrous or pointless’, according to the CEO of Aston Martin, whose development plans may have been radically altered by the move.
Andy Palmer has hit out at the proposals that fail to take into account potential British job losses, for example at internal combustion engine plants like Ford’s in Bridgend. Speaking to Autocar, he said:
“It’s not thinking about the consequential effects to the 800,000 people in our industry. It’s not taking into account the impact to things like petrol station garages and the [Ford employees] who have been making engines in Bridgend.”
He went further than that, indicating that the move will waste vast amounts of money that has been and is being poured into clean combustion technologies by a wide variety of car makers. The former Nissan man also said a move to all-electric cars would harm the British economy because manufacturers like Aston Martin would have to source batteries and associated technology from the Far East, “where they’ve been working on it with government aid for years” instead of building their own engines.
The UK government has pledged £2.7 billion to help improve the infrastructure needed to persuade people into electric and hybrid cars, but Palmer says more is essential if companies like Aston Martin are to stay in the UK after Brexit:
“We’re all in this, so if the government want us to throw away our engines, then it has to work with us – or it’s the straw that breaks the camel’s back. We don’t have the might of Volkswagen or BMW behind us for budget.
“(The timing) is the worst possible because it’s far enough away to not be of immediate concern, but close enough that it affects investment decisions. We’re trying to keep a car business in the United Kingdom.”
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And here we have the indian govt which won’t allow driverless cars for a long time to save jobs of taxi operators
The 240 Aston Martin DB16 will have a huge V-12 engine and two Traxxas sourced rc car motors for “hybrid assist” to comply with government regulations.
What if they said for all the eco guys to go live in Englishland and then all the car guys to come and live in wales! Wales is pretty useless so nobody would really mind. Plus there are some nice roads. Like some sort of petrolhead heaven. All Nissan jukes, Vauxhall mokkas and Prius’s would be banned to enter!!!!
Well come on, first of all hybrids will be allowed, secondly it’s like if somebody would complain that he can’t drive a car from the 70s 80s
This is what happens when normie politicians decide to make laws about cars. News flash, buying a new Hybrid is more detrimental than buying a used ‘69 Mustang, but no politician would ever know this. It’s like having Conan O’Brian as head chef at a 5 star restaurant or having Justin Bieber head car design at Calty.
Oh boii, i was just thinking about us being bored af with only electric cars. Havent even tought about manufacturers
1 like=1 combustion engine in the nature
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F¥€K those stupid laws! PETROL FOREVER! Fight back petrolheads!
It makes me happy that someone with some clout is standing up against the environmentalism PR machine. It seems that the powers that be are all for extracting as much revenue from the motorist, particularly enthusiasts, as possible in the name of environmentalism and nobody seems to be brave enough to criticise it, lest they be called a climate change denier.
now i want an aston alot more save the petrol save the world