The Renault-Daimler agreement now covers 10 projects

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The Renault-Daimler agreement now covers 10 projects
 

- Cooperationbetween Renault-Nissan and Daimler have been revisedupwards and now covers ten projects against three at the launch of the partnership in April 2010. The links between the two groups thereforeconcern :

-1 / the manufacturing of Mercedes Citan vans based on Renault Kangoos

-2 / sharing of the Mercedes platformwith Renault, Nissan and Infinitimodels

-3 / the joint construction of a factory in the United States for the production of engines

-4 / a collaboration between Nissan and Daimler gearboxes.

-5 / co-development of the future Renault Twingo and Smart

-6 / Daimler willnowsupply Nissan NV350 vans to besoldunder the Mitsubishi Fuso brand in somemarkets

-7 / construction of a joint plant in Mexico Nissan-Daimler dedicated to compact models

-8 / co-development of future Master and Sprinter vans

-9 / cooperation in the field of alternative engines (hybrid and electric)

-10 / cooperation on technologyconcerningautonomousvehicles

 
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GM wants to reboot the slow sales of the Volt and Ampera

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GM wants to reboot the slow sales of the Volt and Ampera
 
- GM is going to drop the price of its electric vehicles equiped with the range extender, the Chevrolet Volt and Opel Ampera. The price reduction will be around 17%, which represents a decrease of 7,600 euros for the Ampera. Both models have indeed been struggling to penetrate the markets (particularly U.S. and European) and a decrease in prices could boost sales.

- Since their launch in 2010, the Chevrolet Volt has been sold at 50,000 units (including 20,000 in the first eight months of 2013) and the Opel Ampera at 10,000 units (including 2,000 in the first eight months of 2013) while the manufacturers' objectives were well above.

- Since 2011, the Nissan Leaf and the Renault Zoe were sold during the same period at more than 60,000 and 6,000 units . But if the first eight months of 2013 are taken into account, they have sold 25,000 Leaf and 6000 Zoe.

- Is thus observed that the Leaf has been sold at more units than the Volt in 2013, and even more than the pair-Volt Ampera (25,000 units against 22,000). Hence GM's decision to reduce their selling price. Zoe knows lower scores because it was launched in 2013 and it is not sold in the United States or Japan, the two major markets for electric cars. 15,000 Chevrolet Volt and 14000 Nissan Leaf in the United States in the first eight months of 2013. Over the same period, Nissan sold 7500 Leaf in Japan. 
 
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The Chinese government unveiled its policy to encourage the purchase of hybrid and electric vehicles

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The Chinese government unveiled its policy to encourage the purchase of hybrid and electric vehicles
 

- In early 2010, the Chinesegovernmentannounceditswill to put into circulation 500,000 electric and hybridvehicles in China over a period of threeyears (2010-2011-2012). It counted on a particularnumber of incentivepolicies in place in major cities of the country and a budget of 150 million euros to develop the production of electricvehiclesthrough an alliance of 16 public companies (of whichthreewerecarmakers) .


- It did not achievethis goal, the Chinesegovernmenthencepushed the deadline back  by announcing in 2012 itswill to sell 500,000 hybridvehiclesannually to reach a fleet of 5 million vehicles of this type in 2020.


- It shouldbenotedthat the market for suchvehiclestodayremains marginal in China (3000 electric and hybrid cars in 2011, 12,000 units in 2012, 25,000 units in the first six months of 2013). The main obstacle to the development of electric cars is the pricewhichistoo high. In addition, infrastructures (charging stations) are insufficient. While China had set a target to build 400,000 charging points by 2015, fewerthan 20,000 are installedat the moment.


- The Chinesegovernment has decided to extend and increase subsidies for the purchase of hybrid and electric cars. Theseaidscannowreach 60,000 yuan (7,340 euros) for an electricvehicle, and 35,000 yuan (4,280 euros) for a plug-in hybrid model. On the other hand, a 10% reduction of air pollution at the national level by 2017 wasagreed (from 20% to 25% in large cities), whichshould encourage large cities to introducepoliticalincentives.

 
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Audi moves back to Brazil as a producer

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Audi moves back to Brazil as a producer
 
- After leaving left Brazil in 2006, the Audi manufacturer has decided to return there for 2015.

- The manufacturer will invest 500 million reals (about 165 million euros) in Brazil to produce the A3 and Q3 in the Volkswagen plant of Curitiba, from 2015 for the A3 and from 2016 for the Q3.

- This announcement follows that of BMW and Mercedes who have decided to locate (or relocate ) in this country, where buyers purchase a lot of small cars from generalist manufacturers today, but may buy more and more premium cars range over the next few years, according to these manufacturers, mainly due to a relative enrichment of the middle classes. These locations also respond to higher taxes on imported cars.

- The brand with « the rings » objective is to become the leading manufacturer of high quality to Brazil, ahead of BMW and Mercedes. Audi expects to sell 7,000 cars in Brazil in 2013 (thanks to the additional production capacity in Curitiba) is expected to increase its sales to 30,000 units per year by the end of the decade.

- In order to be more competitive in the emerging countries, Audi is going to produce cars in Brazil, but also open a second plant in China and another in Mexico.

- All these locations have obviously been decided with the approval of the parent company Volkswagen. 
 
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VW could build an SUV in its U.S. plant of Chattanooga

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VW could build an SUV in its U.S. plant of Chattanooga
 
- Volkswagen plans to start the production of a recreational vehicle at its U.S. plant in Chattanooga (Tennessee) towards 2016. Let us recall that the United States is an important market for recreational vehicles.

- Not to mention, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, which traditionally produce such vehicles in the country, Asian and German carmakers will also make this type of models. Thus, BMW will produces the X3, X4, X5 and X6, while Mercedes will makes the ML, GL and R (and soon MLC).

- For now, Volkswagen has not revealed the name of the recreational vehicle that will be manufactured in Chattanooga. It may therefore be the future Tiguan, the future Touareg or an intermediate model between the Tiguan and Touareg.

- The Volkswagen plant in Mexico (Puebla) is also bidding to host the future production of this compact recreational vehicle, but for the moment Chattanooga seems to be preferred by the German group, in particular for reasons of available capacity (the Puebla plant is reaching saturation).

- Let us recall that the Chattanooga plant is currently producing a U.S. version of the Passat that exists nowhere else. Volkswagen produced 157,000 vehicles on this site in 2011, 177,000 in 2012 and 109,000 in the first eight months of 2013, with a capacity of about 170,000 units per year. 
 
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  2. The hierarchy of car producing countries has been turned upside between 2002 and 2013
  3. Volkswagen sold 6.2 million vehicles in the first eight months of 2013
  4. The Renault brand Zoe is experiencing a slower start than expected
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