The UK has car factories and produced 775k cars last year. But 99% of the production is by foreign-owned companies (BMW, Nissan, Honda, etc). The problem Europ

The UK has car factories and produced 775k cars last year. But 99% of the production is by foreign-owned companies (BMW, Nissan, Honda, etc). The problem Europe has with EVs is that the local manufacturers were slow and late while, say, Chinese ones bet it all on EV quite early and China especially bet early on batteries. Today even the Tesla gigafactory in Berlin uses some Chinese batteries (BYD).