The UK is building a $685 Million Port to handle millions of Cheap Chinese EVs
The UK is building a $683 million US port for one reason. Uh to cope with the enormous influx of Chinese electric cars coming into the country. Hello my friends, welcome to the channel. I’m Sam Evans. You’re you’re watching the Electric Viking. It was reported on a couple of hours ago that Britain is building a 500 million pound or 683 million uh US dollar which is about just over a billion dollar billion Australian dollar port because its ports aren’t big enough to cope with the influx of affordable Chinese cars, particularly Chinese electric cars. YouTube’s new algorithm means that you’re often not getting all of our videos in your feed. There’s 7,500. I’m pretty sure you’re probably not seeing a lot of them. In the description, there is a link to our newsletter. Click on that and you can get an update every day of all the latest news in the electric car industry. Britain has so far managed to avoid Donald Trump’s blitz of threatened tariffs. But in spite of that um China has announced that it will well you know focus on car markets where its cars aren’t under the being targeted by these massive tariffs. One country that Austral obviously China is focusing on is Australia because we don’t have any tariffs on Chinese cars at all. Zero. Nothing. Nothing at all. Here’s what the Guardian said. Uh all eyes are on the car industry in the UK. China is looking for buyers for its electric vehicles and there is a risk that Britain becomes a dumping ground. They claim a surge of imports will mean cheaper prices for consumers and that’s already happening but threaten to deal a hammer blow to local businesses as in the automotive industry in the UK is in big trouble. It is shrinking very very quickly. The impact may be limited to Chinese companies currently targeting the UK. I mean for example some brands from China have not yet gone to the UK but by Xping and others like MG Sake Motor they have really gone hard in the UK and their sales this year in the UK have actually grown by more than 75%. Now, as a result of all these cars coming to the UK, Britain’s biggest port operator has unveiled plans for a new 683 million US terminal near Southampton to cope with the flood of electric cars that are coming in. I think a lot what’s happening is there’s just not enough space for these car ships to come from China and efficiently offload their cars. So, they’re having to wait and it’s wasting time and it’s costing money. So that’s the reason for this port, which is enormous. I mean, building a port just for affordable electric cars to come from China, it kind of spells doom for the UK’s automotive industry, which is shrinking basically every year. And I think eventually it will probably just disappear, unfortunately. That said, at least this does mean there’s more options for consumers in the UK where, to be honest, cars are quite expensive. Uh, in general, the price of new cars is quite a bit higher than it is in most Western countries and in particular in Australia. This might help bring down prices for consumers and might help increase the sales of EVs in the UK, which have actually gone up significantly this year to the point where EVs last month represented 31% of all car sales in the United Kingdom. Thanks for watching and I’ll see you again on the next video. Bye-bye. One of the fastest growing electric car markets in the world. When I say one of the fastest, I mean one of the top three globally is actually the UK. EV sales in the UK have skyrocketed this year. Here are the numbers behind this stratospheric rise. Hello my friends. Welcome to the channel. Great to have you with us. I’m Sam Evans. If you can become a YouTube member and support the channel, that would help me immensely. I’ll put a link in the description below. And also guys, this week on Thursday, I’ll be speaking at the Indonesian EV conference about well about the transformation, global the global automotive transformation. If you’d like to attend the EV conference there, I will put a link in the description below. UK electric car sales are up by 35% in the first six months of the year and they had their strongest June for overall car sales in 2019. In other words, the car market’s going up. The amount of cars being sold, but the amount of EVs being sold is going up much, much faster. British electric car sales rose by 35% in the first half of 2025 after the strongest June for overall car sales since before the COVID pandemic. The number of EVs sold rose by 35% to 225,000 in the first 6 months of the year, which is an incredible number. In the month of June, around a quarter, around 25% of all cars sold were fully electric. Tesla in particular, they’re having a good time there because in the rest of Europe, Tesla are suffering. Well, not in Norway or Spain, but the rest of Europe, they are definitely, especially in Germany, but in the UK, people are saying, you know what, who cares about Musk? And they’re buying a lot of Teslas. In fact, Tesla UK sales increased by 14% year-over-year. And that meant that actually Tesla sold 7,720 EVs in the UK in just the month of June alone. However, Tesla’s rivals such as Bo increased their sales by much more than that. Even though we’re coming from a much lower base, BD sold 2,500 vehicles. It sales increased by 400%. Yeah. I mean, wow. What that means is actually EB’s their sales increase in June in the UK was 40%. 40% growth, right? That is absolutely wild. And in fact, it’s really interesting because people in the UK are much more likely to buy a Chinese EV than people in, for example, Germany. Intriguingly, so far this year, apparently Ford have achieved the fastest growth in UK electric car sales. So, a lot of Ford there’s a lot of Ford fans in the UK still. It’s a big big brand there. And I think now that Ford finally have some decent EVs, people are are really happy to buy them. Obviously, British car factories have had to contend with a major slowdown in response to extra US tariffs of 25% announced by Donald Trump in March. So, British car factories are struggling. That means that even though car sales in UK are at an all-time high, UK car production last month fell to its lowest level for well since 1949. That’s 76 years. Factories in the UK received restbite on Monday when a lower tariff rate of 10% from the US kicked in after a limited and who knows what’s going to happen Donald Trump trade deal was agreed between the UK and the US. The 10% rate will apply for the first 100,000 vehicles exported to the US. After that though, everything’s off the table. So what are the numbers so far for the year? Well, so far in 2025, electric car sales have made up 22% of all cars sold. That’s not plug-in hybrids, by the way, guys. That’s just fully electric cars. [Music]
The UK is investing $685 million to build a new port designed to handle the massive influx of cheap Chinese EVs. This move highlights the growing dominance of China’s electric car industry and the UK’s preparation for the EV wave.
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