The Lotus Evora Range-Extender Electric Vehicle puts Britain at the cutting edge of EV technology. Hilton Holloway heads to Hethel to drive it Government involvement in the UK motor industry does not have an impressive track record. Leaning on car makers to build factories in areas of high unemployment, brokering the infamous merger of ailing BMC and Leyland and propping up numerous failing operations in the 1970s greatly discredited what became known in Whitehall as 'picking winners'.
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