Tata electric car to hit UK roads as Mandelson lends £10m

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Tata electric car to hit UK roads as Mandelson lends £10m

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The Guardian - 18/09/09

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The government has finally dipped into its eight-month-old £2.3bn aid package for the car industry, lending Tata Motors £10m to assemble an electric car in the UK.

Tata Motors, which owns Jaguar Land Rover, will invest £25m into the project, which could create hundreds of jobs.

It will also see Tata Motors-badged cars on the UK's roads for the first time.

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The Guardian - 18/09/09

£2.3bn aid package for the car industry
The Guardian - 23/09/09

Government invites wave and tidal energy developers to bid for £22m in new grants designed to accelerate the commercial development of marine energy technologies.
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the irony..... :!:
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Personally I'd prefer to see mass uptake of electric white vans, buses and lorries before electric cars.

Far as I can make out, there isn't enough time to replace all the electric cars before price rises make driving unaffordable for many of us.

Time's up, time to take the bus again.
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