British car industry heading for 'slow-motion crash'

Even more worrisome is the UK’s lack of a substantive battery supply chain needed to support mass manufacturing of electric vehicles

Britian is on course to botch the shift away from the combustion engine and end up a car-making minnow.

This week, mostly UK-based electric-van startup Arrival announced its chief executive and president were stepping down. Last week, the boss of Britain’s biggest car manufacturer, Jaguar Land Rover, resigned after making little headway on an all-electric shift announced almost two years ago.