Nissan UK and Brexit

From todays Sunday Times.

Nissan

who gives a shit .

Whupsy

I give a shit, yoo ignorant git (rhymes)

Whups, I thought you were a staunch labour man who's supposed to be for the working class, yet you don't give a shit about thousands of workers being kept in a job, mi faither always said that the biggest enemy of the working man, is the working man. You seem to have proved it....

so wot freaky i guess i,ve gone like the rest of you lot on here .

That's great news Nissan to lead £2bn investment in UK electric car plant the faster the UK get to 100% electric cars the better ... I'm so surprised that the dinosaurs are so in favour of 100% electric cars

nobody said owt when we & the steelmen were thrown on the scrap head did they .

SMALL PRINT
Mr Johnson declined to comment on how much funding the company has received from UK taxpayers.

He said: "The support we have received in the past has been excellent and we're very grateful for the support we do receive.

"The truth is discussions are ongoing with the government, not concluded, and therefore I'm not in a position at the moment to make any announcement or any comment about any numbers."

The government's contribution to Nissan's project is understood to be about £100m, and if the gigafactory goes ahead, the funding for that will also be about £100m.
is that not the2nd lot of taxpayers money they would have received??

Nissan is not the only company that has found that coming out of the European Union has not been as bad as predicted by pro Europeans.

Apparently, Covid has made more impact on companies than anything to do with Brexit.

Whilst i welcome the news and the investment and safe gaurding of many jobs, the only downside for me is the fact that "ALL the EGGS are being put in one basket"" I am totally opposed to going all -electric. The scale of having to equip almost every houseold with battrey charging facilities is utter nonesense ,logistically impossible . The sheer fact that the cost of electric is insane , the disposal of the Batteries is going to be a nightmare , the vehicles are a lot heavier thus causing more road problems ,the list goes on,on So on one hand the jobs etc ok but the other a NO NO !
GB/

Whupsy

"nobody said owt when we & the steelmen were thrown on the scrap heap"

Are yoo sure about that ?

As I remember, in the 1960s, 70s and 80s that is 'ALL' that folk talked about. as in 'industrial relations' it was strike this and strike that, and arbitration and ACAS, and the TUC, it was all about folk being chucked on the scrapheap, and scrapheap chuckin um back

Golden Bear

I share your concerns about vehicles being required to go all electric, I think that the way ahead should be hybrid vehicles, being both internally combusted and electric driven.

GB

Electric car batteries have a second life as house batteries. These are charged at off peak rates and discharged at peak times. Also used to store electricity generated from solar panels.
Several different types of batteries are under development to provide alternatives to the rare earth metals currently used.
In 10 years time it will be a totally different scenario.

yes i am 1stroke & did,nt you put a pic of thatcher on the miners blog so you could,nt care less & always had a downer on miners .

right again johnson is a big girls blouse .

GB…I know what you mean but in a way who would have thought 60/70 years ago we would have fridge freezers and all the other domestic appliances at hand in almost every kitchen and 55” TV’s hanging on the chimney breast…it’s just progress I suppose..all the rich Arab states and the JR’s of this world will be getting squeaky bums in the next 40 years or so…IMO

Tommy Two Stoke

For a interim period, all vehicles should be hybid until petrol stations are replaced by electric charging stations of the reqiured number and new houses are fitted with a outside charging point.

Electric vehicles are being sold when in remote parts of the country there are not enough petrol stations let alone electric charging points.

Thanks for your comments guys , I think Hybrid is probably best TTS ,but you will still get that girl greta sumat harping on about oil. Roylew yes i do understand i guess we can go back to the invention of the wheel too, and i didn't know about the battery that Gaffer wrote about i only saw one particular commentator making his remark on the sunject !
GB

It is because motorists want to replace them because the range that can be achieved on a charge deteriorates as they age. They can still be used with this much reduced storage capacity, but are no longer ideal candidates for powering electric cars.