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Sadly the real culprit here is the British people who have long regarded foreign as "better" whether it be cars or electronics or even food and beer and cider. French people still loyally buy French cars despite their poor quality and Italians still buy FIATs. We buy foreign.

Sadly its all over now and no going back. The Vauxhall plants will close as soon as the French factories are short of work, just like happened with the Rootes Group. The Mini factory is not to get the investment to keep it operating fully as EVs come along - again it will eventually shut. Even Honda, in shutting its UK plant, switched production back to Japan.

If you go on car wow you can see MG is discounting most models by 9k upwards. The Chinese have a long plan & by you could say dumping cars are buying the market.

I thought this might interest folk especially given his Yorkshire support of his sponsor at the end.

I was hoping for some Yorkshire forced rhubarb, rather than male (cough) grooming products

I just got the first full month bill after adding the BEV and the Ohme. The house has a 3.6kW PV array & 4.2kWh batteries. Export is paid at 15p / kW and import under a scheduled charge is 7p / kW.

So 7/3 to 7/4/25 I got this result in rounded numbers :-
Generation payment of £20
Imported power including standing charge £50
Imported gas including standing charge £54
So £80 for the month in a large detached house.
In those costs are 375 kW used to drive the car 1,000 miles.

Just shows how a BEV saves you money