Top selling electric cars in China for the first 9 months of 2017
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Top selling electric cars in China for the first 9 months of 2017
- 267,608 100% electric cars were sold in China in the first nine months of 2017, which is 1.6% of China's PC market over the period. Adding rechargeable hybrids (58,606 units, or 0.3% of market share), this share reached 1.9% of the Chinese VP market over the period. This volume, therefore, does not yet reach 2% of the market.
- These figures clearly show that car manufacturers will have to massively increase their efforts to reach the Chinese government objective of 10% of market share in 2019, or even more in the following years.
- Over the whole of 2017, 350,000 electric cars and 80,000 plug-in hybrid cars could be sold on the Chinese market, i.e. 430,000 electric cars and plug-in hybrids in total, against less than 300,000 units in Europe, less than 200,000 units in the United States and less than 50,000 units in Japan.
- Manufacturers who are leaders in the Chinese electric car market in the first 9 months of 2017 are BYD (69,094 sales), BAIC (53,716 sales), Zhidou (32,616 sales), SAIC (20,655 sales) and Zotye (19,256 sales). Worldwide, BYD is ahead of Renault-Nissan (89,750 sales) and Tesla (73,227 sales), over the same period.
- In the first 9 months of 2017, the BAIC E-Series EV is the leader in the Chinese electric market (37,152 sales), ahead of the Zhidou D2 EV (32,591 sales) and the BYD e5 (18,263 sales).
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Turkish market down 1.4% in the first nine months of 2017
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Turkish market down 1.4% in the first nine months of 2017
- The Turkish market (PC+ LCV) rose by 5.6% in September 2017, for the third consecutive positive figure this year, as the first half of 2017 ended in the negative (-8.6%). On the cumulative 9 months of 2017, the Turkish market is down 1.4% to 0.63 million units, while it fell 1% in 2016.
- Over the year as a whole, the Turkish market could be between 920,000 and 950,000 units according to Inovev. Registration figures will therefore be lower than those of 2016 and 2015, which set a record in this area.
- The political situation in Turkey and the region remains unstable, which can influence the growth of the market. In the long term, the Turkish market with a very low car ownership rate (280 vehicles per 1,000 inhabitants, compared with 570 in continental Europe) has however the potential to reach or even exceed one million registrations per year.
- Four brands account for 50% of the Turkish market in 2017: Renault (14%) which produces locally, Fiat (13%) which produces locally, Volkswagen (12%) which does not produce locally and Ford (11%) which produces only vans locally. Renault eventually overtook Fiat, which had remained the leader in the Turkish market for several decades, thanks to a range that matched the demand from local customers. Today, Fiat has mainly only Tipo and Linea. The Renault range has a better spread (Clio, Symbol, Megane) which corresponds to local demand.
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続きを読む... Turkish market down 1.4% in the first nine months of 2017
FCA stops production of Fiat 500 in North America
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FCA stops production of Fiat 500 in North America
- Production of the Fiat 500 for North America ended in September 2017. Since then, Fiat 500s sold in the USA are produced at the Polish site of Tichy, where the Fiat 500 destined for the European continent have been produced since 2007. The Fiat 500 began selling in North America in 2011, four years after its launch in Europe. It allowed North American customers to acquire a European city car capable of competing with the other two European city cars on the market at that time, the BMW Mini and Smart For Two. As of 2011, the Fiat 500 for the North American market was manufactured on the Mexican site of Toluca (factory owned by Chrysler).
- At BMW, the Mini was marketed in North America in 2002 and its sales quickly passed the 40,000 annual volume mark before reaching 50,000 in 2008 and 60,000 in 2012 and 2013.
- At Mercedes, the Smart For Two has been marketed in North America since 2008 and sold 25,000 units that year before falling back to 15,000 units annually from 2009 and 10,000 units annually in 2012.
- The Fiat 500 reached 40,000 units a year in 2012 and 2013 but fell quickly to 25,000 in 2015 and 15,000 in 2016. This drop in sales pushed the FCA group to stop production in 2017. Its sales should nevertheless continue until 2020, at a reduced pace (around 10,000 units per year).
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The main announcements of the Opel Recovery Plan
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The main announcements of the Opel Recovery Plan
- The Opel / Vauxhall Brand Recovery Plan was unveiled on Thursday, November 9, 2017. Here is a summary of the main announcements:
1. no closure of Opel plants (six plants in Europe: Rüsselsheim, Eisenach, Zaragoza, Gliwice, Ellesmere Port, Luton) but their capacity will be reduced by an average of 25% by 2020.
2. gradual transfer to 2024 of GM platforms and engines to PSA platforms and engines. The R & D center in Rüsselsheim will still operate and will now work for the entire PSA group.
3. repatriation of Mokka (80,000 units) and Karl (60,000 units) from Korean sites to Opel's European plants by 2020.
4. development of Opel's non-European sales: 100,000 sales expected in 2020, compared to 50,000 in 2017. Opel focuses on Turkey, China and Brazil, where the brand is currently absent. Only PSA based models can be exported.
- The sales volume of the Opel and Vauxhall models should therefore theoretically increase from 1.2 million in 2017 (of which 1.05 million manufactured in Europe) to 1.25 million in 2020 (of which 1.25 million manufactured in Europe).
- At the same time, the production capacity of the Opel and Vauxhall plants would go from 1.4 million to 1.05 million (a reduction of 25%). This means that there are 200,000 Opel vehicles manufactured in factories other than Opel's, namely those of PSA (such as Combo in Vigo or Grandland in Sochaux). We should consider either future Opel models manufactured at PSA sites (100,000 units per year), or a 100,000 units/year decline in sales of Opel models in Europe by 2020.
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Maserati will launch a second SUV in 2020
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Maserati will launch a second SUV in 2020
- The luxury car maker Maserati (a subsidiary of the Fiat-Chrysler Group) has announced that it will launch a second more compact SUV in 2020, to join the Levante, which has doubled the sales of the brand since its launch in 2016. The Levante, of which 15,678 copies were sold worldwide in the first nine months of 2017 (6,415 in China, 4,368 in Europe and 3,908 in the US) is an E-segment SUV, built on the platform of the Ghibli sedan. This SUV is 5.03m long, 1.96m wide and 1.67m high.
- The future Maserati SUV (whose name is still unknown) will be a D-segment SUV, which will be built on the platform of Alfa-Romeo Stelvio and Giulia (Giorgio platform), Alfa-Romeo also being a subsidiary of the Fiat Chrysler Group.
- In fact, the future Maserati will be a variant of the Alfa-Romeo Stelvio, of which 11,582 units were sold in the first nine months of 2017 (including 10,501 in Europe, 633 in the United States and 285 in China ). The Alfa-Romeo Stelvio is 4.68m long, 1.86m wide and 1.65m high. Note that the future Maserati SUV will be the only D segment model of the brand, since the Ghibli and Levante are E segment and the Quattroporte F segment. The production of GranTurismo and GranCabrio will end before the end of the year.
- This future SUV will therefore be the new access model for the Maserati range.
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