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Published: 06 December 2021

• China
• Production
• BMW
• Great Wall

Mini announces a small electric minivan for 2023

- The Mini brand (a subsidiary of the BMW group) announces a production version of its battery electric Urbanaut concept car presented last year and which prefigured a small B-segment minivan but very spacious thanks to its one volume design.

- The production version of this small electric minivan should be launched in 2023. It seems that this model will be produced in China, on a common platform between BMW and Great Wall, as the two carmakers decided several years ago to cooperate in the development of electric cars.

- The new small minivan will therefore share its platform with future Great Wall models but also with the future Mini which will be produced in Oxford, England. The BMW group proceeds like its competitor Daimler (now Mercedes Cars), by pooling the platform of its most compact electric model, namely the Smart at Mercedes and the Mini E at BMW.

- The new Mini will be launched in 2023 as a three-door sedan version. The Countryman will be renewed the same year, it will always be an SUV version of the Mini, about 4.30 m long, also the dimensions of the future Smart SUV.

- We observe that the two brands Mini and Smart tend to come closer in terms of products, as the Mercedes subsidiary will abandon its small models of less than 3 meters for a range more in line with demand. Mini, however, supplants its competitor with the addition of a small electric MPV, the concept of which goes back to the fundamentals of the first MPVs (optimum cabin space in a small surface). This concept could be more successful in China than in Europe, which is why it is produced in China by Great Wall.

    

 

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Published: 06 December 2021

• China
• Registrations
• Asia
• Norway

Chinese carmakers occupy 5% of the Norwegian market

- Chinese carmakers now occupy 5% of the Norwegian market and 2% of the UK market. Norway and the United Kingdom, countries outside the European Union, are the countries, with Italy, located in Europe with the highest rate of sales of Chinese cars in 2021. In the European Union, sales of Chinese cars n 'do not reach 1% of the passenger car market, but they already reach 2.7% in Sweden and 1.5% in the Netherlands.

- In the first 10 months of 2021, Chinese car sales represented 65,203 units compared to 27,664 over the same period of 2020, which shows a growth of 135% year on year. Over the year as a whole, they could represent 80,000 units.

- This growth in Europe contrasts with that observed in the United States where Chinese carmakers are unable to increase their sales, which remain extremely low.

- Sales in Europe are made by around ten different brands mainly targeting the category of 100% electric cars (BEVs) and to a lesser extent that of rechargeable hybrids (PHEVs).

- The goal of Chinese brands is to increase the number of their sales on the European continent, which seems receptive to new Chinese electric cars that are cheaper than their European counterparts.

- It is difficult to predict the market share of Chinese carmakers in Europe in five or ten years, but Inovev believes that these carmakers will experience slow but real growth in ten years, with a market share of around 5% of the European market in 2030, or nearly one million sales.

    

 

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Published: 06 December 2021

• China
• Registrations
• Asia
• BYD
• Norway

BYD expects 1,500 sales of its Tang model in Norway in 2021

- A new Chinese player is entering the European market, one of the largest carmakers of battery electric vehicles in China, namely BYD. This carmaker arrives on the European market after MG (SAIC), Seres (Dongfeng), Aiways, Polestar (Geely), Lynk & Co (Geely), Xiaopeng, NIO, Maxus (SAIC) and Great Wall.

- It is therefore the 10th Chinese carmaker to arrive in Europe, with a battery electric SUV named Tang and produced in China. This 4.87 m long model is in the Audi e-Tron segment (E-segment), which shows that Chinese carmakers also have ambitions in the Premium market. The BYD Tang has a 180 kW electric motor and an 84.6 kWh battery capacity, which allows a range of 400 km on the WLTP cycle.

- The carmaker intends to start supplying Norway (countries outside the European Union) then Scandinavia and the other countries of the European Union in the medium term. Already 463 copies of the model have been registered in Norway between January and December 2021, with sales actually starting in August 2021. The automaker expects to sell 1,500 over the whole year and double it next year. In China, this vehicle is currently in small distribution, since a little more than 4,600 units were produced over 10 months in 2021, while the PHEVs version has sold more than 32,000 units on the same period.

- In Europe, a network of 45 dealers has already been set up in Norway to distribute this model. The BYD Tang is priced at 57,760 euros, a much lower price than the Audi e-Tron which starts at 71,900 euros. For BYD, exporting to Europe could help expand its production in China, which remained stable between 2009 and 2020, hovering around 400,000 to 500,000 units per year.

    

 

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Published: 06 December 2021

• Production
• Volkswagen
• Germany

Inovev forecasts 50,000 units per year of the new Volkswagen ID5

- Volkswagen is gradually expanding the range of its 100% electric ID cars. After the ID3, ID4 and ID6 (on the Chinese market for the moment), the German carmaker has just unveiled the ID5, which is in a way the coupe version of the ID4 (at Audi, this type of body is called Sportback ). Not very different aesthetically from the ID4, the ID5 is despite everything a little longer (4.60 m against 4.58 m) and a little lower (1.61 m against 1.63 m) with a curvature of roof a little more pronounced.

- If the MEB platform is identical, the electric motor is more powerful (174 hp against 148 hp on the ID4) and the carmaker offers a single battery configuration (77 kWh) which is the more powerful of the two offered on the ID4 ( 52 kWh and 77 kWh). There will be a 204 hp version scheduled for next summer. The range is in all cases set at 500 km according to the WLTP cycle.

- This positioning means that Volkswagen sees the ID5 as a sportier model than the more family-oriented ID4. Suddenly, the price of the ID5 suffers. It is higher than that of the ID4, ie a price higher than 50,000 euros.

- The Volkswagen ID5 will be produced from 2022 at the Zwickau site (five different models will be manufactured at this site from next spring: Volkswagen ID3, Volkswagen ID4, Volkswagen ID5, Seat Born, Audi Q4).

- As with all electric cars, the ramp-up of the ID5 will be gradual. Inovev forecasts 25,000 units per year at the start of its career, then 50,000 units per year in mid-career.

- Finally, we should add that the ID5 will have a close cousin: the Skoda Enyaq coupe which will be unveiled in March 2022.

    

 

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