Greg Combet (Charlton, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change, Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

It is important to ensure that there is proper understanding of the issues confronting the industry, and the restructuring of the industry globally is very important. A lot of investment is going into expanded production in China. Expected production runs in a motor-vehicle manufacturing facility in China might be 250,000 units per year or 300 units per year or more. The major motor-vehicle manufacturers are looking at their operations internationally, comparing them to that sort of benchmark and the economies of scale that can be achieved and also contemplating the development of vehicles that are essentially globally designed and that are uniformly marketed across a range of markets.

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