DRIVE35 programme begins a ten year journey with funding
The DRIVE35 programme will put £2.5 billion into Britain’s zero emission vehicle industry. The sector entered the destination, chose the fastest route and ignored the satnav’s request to make a U turn.
Two billion pounds runs to 2030, with another £500 million for research through 2035. The programme has a medium term plan and a later envelope marked things batteries might be doing by then.
The investment aims to support manufacturing and skilled jobs. Every concept car will nevertheless continue arriving through dry ice, as though a family hatchback has escaped from a wizard.
A charging cable joins an ecosystem
“Britain will lead the clean driving revolution,” said Clive Torque Schedule, Vice President of Electrified Optimism. “Our prototype already travels 400 miles, provided the brochure carries it.”
Funding competitions will back new projects. Applicants must prove innovation, growth and an ability to describe an ordinary charging cable as an ecosystem with a road map.
Industry welcomes long term certainty. Workers welcome jobs. Drivers mainly want a public charger that recognises a bank card before the service station sandwich reaches room temperature.
Ministers say the programme will secure future investment. The future is twelve miles ahead, slightly left, and currently occupied by temporary lights.
The vehicle reaches 2035 before the driver finds a socket
DRIVE35 promises to take British motoring forward. The dashboard confirms progress in several cheerful colours while the route recalculates near a closed lay by.
Read the real story: The official announcement of the DRIVE35 automotive programme.
