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"UK commercial vehicle (CV) production grew by 39.3% in 2022 with vehicles built for overseas markets up 63.4% to record their highest share of production (60.2%) since 2017".
"Looking ahead to 2023, volumes are expected to grow significantly, notably on the back of new model activity and an increase in electric van production. This boost is set to see manufacturing surpass 160,000 units in 2023."
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Why would the commercial vehicle production not be effected by the same problems the non-commercial production have suffered?
Also why wasnt this good news reported in the main news but the car production bad news was?
 
BillyBoyStu said:
"UK commercial vehicle (CV) production grew by 39.3% in 2022 with vehicles built for overseas markets up 63.4% to record their highest share of production (60.2%) since 2017".
"Looking ahead to 2023, volumes are expected to grow significantly, notably on the back of new model activity and an increase in electric van production. This boost is set to see manufacturing surpass 160,000 units in 2023."
uk-commercial-vehicle-production-best-in-a-decade

Why would the commercial vehicle production not be effected by the same problems the non-commercial production have suffered?
Also why wasnt this good news reported in the main news but the car production bad news was?
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Is this more deflection I see!
 
BillyBoyStu said:
"UK commercial vehicle (CV) production grew by 39.3% in 2022 with vehicles built for overseas markets up 63.4% to record their highest share of production (60.2%) since 2017".
"Looking ahead to 2023, volumes are expected to grow significantly, notably on the back of new model activity and an increase in electric van production. This boost is set to see manufacturing surpass 160,000 units in 2023."
uk-commercial-vehicle-production-best-in-a-decade

Why would the commercial vehicle production not be effected by the same problems the non-commercial production have suffered?
Also why wasnt this good news reported in the main news but the car production bad news was?
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Not sure but maybe it could be related to the scale of commercial manufacture being only a tenth of car manufacture and less need for JIT requirements in the commercial business model so less chance of parts shortages.
 
BillyBoyStu said:
Why would the commercial vehicle production not be effected by the same problems the non-commercial production have suffered?
Also why wasnt this good news reported in the main news but the car production bad news was?
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There sort of is a van related ref (assuming that it is related to the Ford/Vauxhall link). But the article is looking at the prospects for the vehicle UK production industry as a whole (as indicated above, the 100% not only the 10%), hence the latter highlighted section.

Britain has not entirely lost out in the switch to battery power. Ford said in December that it would spend another £150m to make ev components at Halewood on Merseyside, taking its total commitment to £380m. Stellantis, owner of Vauxhall, is spending £100m to convert its plant at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire so that it can churn out electric vans. Most significantly, Nissan and Envision, its Chinese partner, are spending £1bn to build a “gigafactory” in Sunderland that will start to produce batteries in 2025 for British-built evs . But in a restructuring of an industry that will spend $1.2trn globally by 2030 on electrification these are trifling sums.
 
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BillyBoyStu said:
Wouldn't be much of a message board if there wasn't some deflections.
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