The four major Asian markets perform contrasting performances

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The four major Asian markets perform contrasting performances
 

- The four major Asian markets are experiencing contrasting trends in 2013. As the Chinese market continues to grow and doing better than the last two years (PC recorded an increase of 13.1% over the first eight months of 2013 compared to the first eight months of 2012), the markets in Japan , India and Korea display negative results (-8.0% for Japan, -8.0% for India and -3.0% for and Korea).


- When analyzing the results over three years (2011-2012-2013), we see that the Chinese market has increased by 25% over this period, while the Japanese market increased by only 5%, the Indian market 6% and the Korean market was down 6% ...


- To set the scale of volumes in these four markets, remember that in 2012 China accounted for 15.5 million PC, Japan 4.5 million, India 2.8 million and Korea 1.2 million, 24 million in total over 60 million PC sold worldwide. These four Asian markets therefore represent 40% of the world passenger car market.


- And this total does not include other Asian countries enjoying strong growth, such as Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam, which represents 4% of the world total.

 
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France is the first European market for electric cars

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France is the first European market for electric cars
 
- Europe has become the second electric vehicle market behind the United States and ahead of Japan. 18,939 electric vehicles were registered in Europe during the first half of 2013 (against 15,503 in the first half of 2012), while the United States has registered nearly 30,000 units and Japan less than 6000 .

- Within Europe, France is in the leading position consolidating its ranking (7500 units in the first half of 2013) ahead of Germany (3000 units) and Norway (2500 units). This is undoubtedly provided by domestic carmakers (Renault played a pioneering role in this area) greater influence than the general environment that promoted its first place.

- Indeed, the best-selling electric vehicle brand in Europe is Renault (6,000 units in the first half of 2013), ahead of Nissan (5500 units) and Smart (1500 units).

- The best-selling model is the electric Renault Zoe, with 4770 registered units, but Nissan Leaf registered 4943 units in Europe during the first half of 2013. Renault offers several different electric models in its catalog while Nissan has not (yet) more than one.

- In the article "The Renault Zoe is experiencing a slower start than expected " we analyzed the first year of commercialization of Zoe and compared actual sales to the objectives of the carmaker. 
 
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The US carmarket is still progressing

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The US carmarket is still progressing
 
- The U.S. carmarket continues to perform well in 2013, after increases of 10.3% in 2011 (6.6% for passenger cars and 15.0% for light trucks) and 13.4% in 2012 (17.0% for PC and 8.9% for light trucks).

- In the first eight months of 2013, this market grew again by 9.6% (5.5% for passenger cars and 14.1% for light trucks), compared to the first eight months of 2012. Between early January 2011 and late August 2013, the car market in the U.S. has increased by more than 33% ... It will end the year with nearly 16 million vehicles, almost at the level of the market in 2007, which is far from being the case in the European market that has lost 25% of its volume since 2007.

- In addition, it now sells almost as many light trucks (minivans, SUVs, crossovers, pickups according to U.S. law) than passenger cars (mostly sedans): 5.3 million (on the eight months in 2013) against 5, 4 million PC, which had not happened since the collapse of the market in 2009.

- This year, the market collapsed to 10.4 million vehicles (against 16 million in 2007, 17 million in 2005 and 17.5 million in 2000) and light trucks accounted for 4.7 million units against 5.7 million passenger cars. The crisis has most affected the light truck market recovery but further promotes the development of light commercial vehicles, where U.S. carmakers have a strong predominance (although it is foreign manufacturers who dominate the PC).
 
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Avtotor has become the second Russian carmaker behind Avtovaz

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Avtotor has become the second Russian carmaker behind Avtovaz
 

- Avtotor is a Russian carmaker based in Kaliningrad, in an area separated from the rest of Russia, formerly known as the Eastern Prussia. This constructor has grown dramatically since the early 2000s, from 20,000 cars produced in 2005 to 250,000 in 2012 (volume multiplied by 12.5).


- It owes its expansion to agreements with various foreign carmakers whose models are manufactured under license. Today Avtotor manufactures for the BMW Group, General-Motors (Cadillac, Chevrolet, Opel) and Hyundai-Kia.


- In 2013, 53% of cars assembled by Avtotor are Hyundai-Kia, 35% are General-Motors (20% Chevrolet 13% of Opel and Cadillac 2%) and 12% are BMW.All these cars are sold on the Russian territory.


- Today Avtotor represents between 10% and 11% of the production achieved in Russia in the past two years. It is the second Russian caramaker behind Avtovaz (Lada).


- Avtotor managed its way through the crisis of 2009 when production fell by half, due to a collapse of the Russian market that year, the carmaker was at the time on the verge of bankruptcy. Reborn, Avtotor managed to double its production in 2010 (the Russian market restarted that year) to make further progress until 2012. Dependent of the Russian market, Avtotor followed its negative trend in 2013 (down about 10%). 

 
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Volvo Trucks is transferring its production from Turkey to France

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Volvo Trucks is transferring its production from Turkey to France
 
- In 2007, the truck manufacturer Renault Trucks reached an agreement with the Turkish carmaker KARSAN in order to outsource the manufacturing of the Kerax and Premium models for the Turkish market but mainly for export.

- Today, to mark the complete renewal of the Renault Trucks range, Volvo Trucks (owner of Renault Trucks since 2001) prematurely terminated this agreement and will transfer from Turkey to France the production of trucks manufactured under the Renault brand .

- Volvo Trucks is going to stop the production of trucks under the Renault brand in Turkey at the end of 2013, in order to transfer it to France.

- Meeting the new Euro 6 standards these models will be assembled in Renault Industrial Vehicle factories, located in the region of Lyon.

- This transfer will generate a positive long-term effect with better use of existing truck plants, complying with and contributing to the global strategy of the group's truck segment.

- Let us recall that within the Volvo Trucks group, Renault trucks accounted for 22% of sales in the first half of 2013, an increase compared to 2012. The Volvo Group Trucks Sales amounted to 60,000 units during this period.
 
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