tonight at ten all the major car manufacturers in the uk are understood to have raised concerns about the brexit trade deal. vauxhall has already gone public, saying the future of its british factories is in doubt unless the trade deal is changed. the focus is on batteries for electric vehicles the uk needs to produce more to satisfy eu trading rules and experts say we re way behind. uk hasa uk has a very simple decision to make, either it supports the future of vehicle manufacturing in the uk or it decides it s not in vehicle manufacturing long term and it loses those 800,000 jobs associated with the industry. we ll have the latest on the fears for the future of the car industry and the government s response. also tonight a car chase in new york. harry and meghan say that lives were put at risk as they were chased by paparazzi. a cab driver was with them for part of the journey. they looked nervous, ithink they looked nervous, i think they were they looked nervous, i t
in cars between the two. obviously, the eu is a much bigger maker and market. the uk made 775,000 cars last year, while the eu made nearly 11 million. but between 2030 and 2035 all new cars will have to be electric, which means they need batteries, which are heavy, expensive to transport, and a big part of the overall value of the car. 0n battery production, you can see here the eu is way ahead. the uk has just one working factory and two possible new sites, while the eu has 35 opened, under construction or planned. failure to hit next years requirement that cars need 45% of homemade parts would hit the uk harder. in 2022, the uk exported around 60% of all the cars it produced to the eu, while the eu exported 10% of its cars to the uk. but that s enough for the industry and uk government to hope, although farfrom certain, that the eu will see it makes sense to postpone next year s requirement, because right now, the eu is also still getting most of its batteries