The Douai plant will be able to produce up to 400,000 electric cars per year
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The Douai plant will be able to produce up to 400,000 electric cars per year
- Renault has announced that the French plant in Douai (Hauts de France region) which currently produces the Scenic, Espace and Talisman will be reassigned to the production of electric cars and will be able to produce up to 400,000 cars of this type from 2030.
- This volume corresponds to what the Douai plant produced during the period 1997-2000 (after the launch of the first generation of the Renault Scenic compact MPV) and during the period 2003-2005 (after the launch of the second generation of the Renault Scenic).
- Since 2005, production at the Douai plant has been steadily declining, dropping to 300,000 units in 2007, 200,000 in 2010, 100,000 in 2014 and 50,000 in 2020. This phenomenon is partly due to the drop of the demand on compact MPVs which have been supplanted by SUVs. Scenic, Espace and Talisman will be removed from the production lines between 2022 and 2023.
- The production program announced for the Douai plant concerns the future electric Megane e-Tech electric (2022), the future electric SUV (2023), the future electric R5 (2024) which should succeed the Renault Zoé and the future electric R4 (2025) which should succeed the Renault Twingo ZE. The Renault Zoé will no longer be produced in Flins from 2024, this factory then abandoning its status as a vehicle assembly site. In addition to these four electric cars produced in Douai, two electric cars produced in Dieppe, marketed under the Alpine brand, will be added. Finally, the battery electric versions of Renault Kangoo, Mercedes Citan and electric Nissan will be assembled at the Maubeuge plant. A total of nine electric vehicles will be produced in Renault plants in 2025.
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続きを読む... The Douai plant will be able to produce up to 400,000 electric cars per year
Volkswagen stops production in Europe of its Amarok pickup
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Volkswagen stops production in Europe of its Amarok pickup
- The pick-up market has not experienced a strong development in Europe, unlike North America, South America, Africa or Southeast Asia where they are produced on a large scale number.
- This market has never exceeded 0.6% of registrations on the European market, and carmakers who have launched pick-ups long after others have failed to succeed. This is how Renault with its Alaskan and Mercedes with its X-Class (both based on the Nissan Navara) left this market, as did Fiat with its Fullback model (based on the Mitsubishi L200).
- It is now the turn of Volkswagen to stop the production of its Amarok pickup, proposed with four-cylinder and six-cylinder engines, which was assembled at the German plant in Hanover where the Volkswagen Kombi and Transporter are produced, and where future battery electric light utility vehicles should be produced next year.
- The Volkswagen Amarok was not a great success, as the Hanover plant produced only 180,000 units in nine years, or 20,000 per year on average, which is however better than the Renault Alaskan (4,250 units), the Mercedes X-Class (25,000 units) or the Fiat Fullback (38,000 units). The peak of production in Europe of the Amarok was reached in 2018 and then production collapsed. It should be noted, however, that the production of Amarok continues in Argentina for local demand. More than 600,000 units have been assembled in this country since 2009, when it was launched. Following an agreement with Ford, future Volkswagen pickups will be based on the Ford Ranger and will not necessarily be marketed in Europe.
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続きを読む... Volkswagen stops production in Europe of its Amarok pickup
The VW group is still the leading carmaker in Europe over the 9 months of 2021
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The VW group is still the leading carmaker in Europe over the 9 months of 2021
- The Stellantis group was the leading seller of vehicles in Europe in the first quarter of 2021, ahead of the Volkswagen group, with 24% market share against 23% for the German carmaker. However, Volkswagen had already taken the lead in the European market in the first half of 2021.
- It should nevertheless be noted that the cumulative sales of PSA and FCA had exceeded those of the Volkswagen group in previous years, except in 2020 when the German carmaker had suffered less from the Covid-19 crisis than its two competitors.
- Over the January-September 2021 cumulative, the Volkswagen group kept its first place in sales in Europe, with 2,445,854 units, representing 24.6% of the European passenger car and light utility vehicle market (PC+LUV), while the Stellantis group did not exceeded 2,241,961 units, representing 22.6% of the European market.
- The two European market leaders are well ahead of the Renault-Nissan groups (1,242,618 units, 12.5% market share), Hyundai-Kia (771,145 units, 7.8% market share), BMW ( 661,291 units, 6.7% market share), Toyota (634,200 units, 6.4% market share), Ford (591,851 units, 6.0% market share) and Daimler (572,761 units, 5.8% market share). With the lead the Volkswagen Group has taken over the Stellantis Group over the past nine months, it is highly likely that the German carmaker will remain the number one carmaker in Europe in terms of sales for the whole 2021 year.
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続きを読む... The VW group is still the leading carmaker in Europe over the 9 months of 2021
Inovev forecast 20,000 units per year of the new Nissan Townstar
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Inovev forecast 20,000 units per year of the new Nissan Townstar
- The carmaker Nissan (a subsidiary of the Renault-Nissan group) has unveiled the replacement for its NV250 light utility vehicle which was based on the previous generation of the Renault Kangoo. The NV250 will not have lived long as it was launched in 2019. It is also surprising that the Japanese carmaker took so long to launch this model as the Renault version already existed since 2007 and the old Nissan Kubistar derived from the first generation of the Kangoo had been discontinued in 2009.
- It is also surprising that the new Nissan Townstar takes name used on the old light utility vehicles lineup of the Japanese carmaker, such as the Kubistar, Cabstar, Primastar or Interstar. Nissan’s latest LUVs were indeed named NV200, NV250, NV300 and NV400. Nissan's strategy in Europe is still difficult to understand ...
- The new Townstar replaces not only the NV250 but also the NV200 which was the pioneer in the battery electric LUV category and which was sold at 250,000 units in Europe since its launch in 2009, of which 40,000 were battery electric. The NV200 is disappearing because the plant in Barcelona that assemble it, will close in December 2021.
- The Townstar will be produced in Maubeuge (France), alongside the very recent Renault Kangoo and Mercedes Citan. Unlike the NV250 (which was also produced at Maubeuge), the Townstar will have a 1.3l petrol engine or an electric motor already equipped for the Kangoo and Citan, but will not be equipped with diesel engines. Nissan wants to achieve a 3% share in LUV sales in Europe, or 60,000 sales divided into Townstar, NV300 and NV400. The Townstar share could therefore represent up to 30,000 annual sales according to Nissan. Rather, Inovev expects 20,000 annual sales.
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続きを読む... Inovev forecast 20,000 units per year of the new Nissan Townstar
The VW Golf is the best-selling vehicle in Europe for the 9 months of 2021
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The VW Golf is the best-selling vehicle in Europe for the 9 months of 2021
- While the Peugeot 208 had been the best-selling car in Europe in the first quarter of 2021, the Volkswagen Golf regained its traditional first place in the cumulative nine months of 2021. This model benefited from the fact that the Volkswagen ID3 and ID4 did not have failed to meet their sales targets - so far - with ID3 in 55th place and ID4 in 93rd place.
- With 800,000 units sold over the first nine months of 2021, battery electric vehicles represent 8.9% of the European passenger car market against 7.7% over the first six months of 2021. Of the top twenty cars sold in Europe out of the first nine month of 2021, only the Tesla Model 3 (18th) is in this ranking and succeeded to become the best-selling car in Europe in September.
- In the overall classification, the Golf is just ahead of the Toyota Yaris, which for the first time manages to climb to second place. Then came the Peugeot 208, the Opel Corsa (which completely outclassed its competitor the Ford Fiesta), the Renault Clio, the Peugeot 2008 and the extremely well placed Dacia Sandero. The Volkswagen T-Roc and Tiguan are in decline, while the Fiat 500 is progressing well, thanks to its electric version which now accounts for 20% of Fiat 500 sales.
- The absence of Audi, BMW and Mercedes models in the top 20 shows that the purchasing power of European customers is not optimal.
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続きを読む... The VW Golf is the best-selling vehicle in Europe for the 9 months of 2021