EV Revolution: India s automobile industry is the fifth largest globally and is expected to become the third largest by 2030. The size of India s electric vehicle market is also growing each year with surging fuel prices also providing a push to the sales of EVs.
implications even beyond the way we all get around. this is the ford plant at dagenham. the traditional car industry is worth £14 billion a year to the british economy. this huge plant is an important employer, about 2000 people work, crucial jobs in a0 deprived part of the country. but if it doesn t adapt to the ev revolution, could face a death sentence in the years to come. electric vehicles represent the biggest change in the car industry since the model t replaced the horse and cart, except of course this time round, we have a decade to do it. it represents a huge opportunity but here in the uk we have a hell of a lot of work to do. it s day 6 of the women s world cup, and in the past hour, colombia have beaten south korea 2 0. both goals came in the first half a penalty scored by catalina usme, then linda caicedo doubled the colombians lead nine minutes later.
this is the ford plant at dagenham in london. the traditional car industry is worth £14 billion a year to the british economy. this huge plant is an important employer. about 2,000 people work here, crucialjobs in quite a deprived part of the country. but if it doesn t adapt to the ev revolution, it could face a death sentence in years to come. justin rowlatt, bbc news. and you can see more on this in a programme tonight on bbc one: electric cars: what they really mean for you , that s at 8pm or you can find it now on iplayer. the government says all state schools in england now have access to a potentially life saving defibrillator. more than 20,000 defibrillators, which give an electric shock to the heart of someone in cardiac arrest, have been delivered across the country since january. it follows a long campaign
to private companies to kind of make the arrangements. is that sufficient? no, it s not sufficient. and to give the government some credit, they do have a plan to increase the number of public chargers that we have in this country quite significantly. but it s quite difficult to know how that plan will be delivered. and we don t have a planning system that s set up for net zero in the round. so the targets are there, but what we don t have is a government that s put its shoulder to the wheel on it. the government says it has told local authorities they need to develop their own plans for installing chargers, but says the rate of installation is going up. and the government s net zero plans have huge implications even beyond the way we all get around. this is the ford plant at dagenham in london. the traditional car industry is worth £14 billion a year to the british economy. this huge plant is an important employer. about 2,000 people work here, crucialjobs in quite a deprived part of