The Renault Plan for 2030
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The Renault Plan for 2030
The Renault group has announced its Plan for 2030. Along with Nissan, Renault was one of the pioneers in the field of mass-market battery electric vehicles (BEV). However, the carmaker did not take advantage of its lead as competitors woke up and offer many models. The new Plan for 2030 announced ten years after the launch of the first Zoé therefore confirms the implementation of a second step much more important than the first (2011-2021).
1. Unlike other brands, Renault is not targeting 100% sales of BEV in 2030, but 90% of electrified vehicles (xEVs), through 65% full hybrid vehicles (FHEV) and plug-in electrics (PHEV + BEV) in 2025. Ten new electrified vehicles will be launched by 2025: three under Alpine brand and seven with Renault. Among these, the battery electric Mégane E-Tech (officialised at the Munich Motor Show), the electric R5 and an electric R4. These three models will be produced at the Douai plant, which will have a capacity in 2030 of 400,000 units per year dedicated solely to battery electric vehicles. No new electric model planned at Dacia which will have to be rely on the Spring, nor at Lada.
2. Renault wants to reduce the cost of its batteries by 60% between 2021 and 2030. To achieve this, Renault is counting on the unification and standardization of cells, with two chemistries, one for the R4 and R5, the other for the segment C and Alpine. Two giga factories are planned in France: one in 2024 and the other in 2026.
3. Two platforms will be used for this new range of electric cars, the CMF-EV for the C/D segments with a world objective in 2030 of 700,000 units per year and the CMF-BEV derived from the CMF-B for the B segment with an objective world in 2030
of 900,000 units per year.
of 900,000 units per year.
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The Mercedes Plan for 2030
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The Mercedes Plan for 2030
- The Mercedes group (ex-Daimler) has announced its Plan for 2030. The German carmaker, which remains the leading premium carmaker ahead of BMW and Audi at the worldwide level, has indicated that it will become a 100% electric brand from 2030, as Volvo or Jaguar. 100% electric seems to be favoured by Premium carmakers. However, the challenge seems complicated for Mercedes (as for the other carmakers) because the sales of its electric cars represent today only 4.5% of Mercedes passenger cars total sales in Europe, meaning twice less than all the brands in this market. And in China and the United States, it is even less. However, the Premium brands are the most likely to be the fastest to switch to these technologies.
- Anyway, the objective is set, and to achieve it, the German carmaker will offer three modular platforms from 2025, and will have eight Giga factories around the world for a battery capacity of 200 GWhtotally, which corresponds to a range included between 2,500,000 and 2,700,000 light vehicles (for an average battery capacity of 75-80 KWh per car). It is the volume of light vehicles produced today by (all engines combined).
- Mercedes says the electrification of its line-up will be made step by step. This will start with an electrified proposal (BEV or PHEV) at each level of the range from 2022, then will continue with a BEV proposal for each model from 2025, and will end in 2030 with the end of all thermal engines. In addition, this strategy is also valid for AMG, Maybach and the G-Class model.
- To achievethese goals, Mercedes willdevelop four platformsfrom 2024-2025: MMA (C-D segment sedans), MB-EA (E-F segment sedans), AMG-EA (sports vehicles) and VAN-EA (light utility vehicles).
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The European Commission aims for zero emissions for new cars by 2035
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The European Commission aims for zero emissions for new cars by 2035
- With the gradual tightening of CO2 emissions targets in the European Union, the trend is for the end of sales of new cars with thermal engines (petrol or diesel) from 2035. The EU is regularly tightening its CO2 emissions targets and aims for carbon neutrality in 2050. To achieve this objective, the European Commission wishes to set objectives after 2035 that only battery electric vehicles will be able to achieve.
- Until now, the targets set by the European Commission were a 15% reduction in CO2 emissions in 2025 compared to the 2021 target (set at an average of 95 g of CO2/km) and 37,5% in 2030 (still compared to 2021).
- The new proposal from the European Commission aims firstly to reduce emissions more sharply in 2030, with a 55% reduction in 2030 for passenger vehicles, i.e. an average of 42.75 g CO2/km (compared to 2021) and a reduction of 50% for light utility vehicles. Secondly, the Commission proposes to aim for zero emissions for new cars by 2035, i.e. the end of vehicles using a combustion engine (and therefore plug-in hybrids as well). These proposals will be discussed and negotiated with the auto industry, before a decision expected next year.
- In 2021, battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sales will represent 8% of the European market, so it is a long way before reaching 100% of European market with BEVs. Actually, Europe is divided between those who welcome 100% electric vehicles as soon as possible and those who consider that too rapid electrification would increase the price of vehicles, destroy hundreds of thousands of jobs and promote competition from China with less expensive products.
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The Xpeng G3 arrives in Europe
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The Xpeng G3 arrives in Europe
- The battery electric Xiaopeng G3 marketed in China since 2018 is now launched in Europe, first in Norway, a country where electric cars are well developed and which bought 234 units of this model during the first half of 2021. This quantity may seem anecdotal, but sales of the model are set to grow rapidly, especially when the G3 will be better known in Norway and then distributed throughout Europe.
- This model is part of the launch of several Chinese brands in the market of electric vehicles, after the MG ZS (9,259 sales in the first half of 2021), Polestar 2 (7,717 sales), Aiways U5 (168 sales), to which we can add MG EHS plug-in hybrids (5,902 sales) and Lynk & Co (505 sales).
- The Xiaopeng G3 is a C-segment SUV 4.45 m long (the length of the new Nissan Qashqai) and sold at an unbeatable price (around 35,000 euros, a price close to a Renault Zoe).
- The Chinese model is equipped with a CATL battery of 66 kWh of capacity allowing a range of 451 km according to the WLTP cycle.
It powers an electric motor with a power of 145 kW (197 hp) allowing a maximum speed of 170 km/h.
It powers an electric motor with a power of 145 kW (197 hp) allowing a maximum speed of 170 km/h.
- The Xiaopeng G3 is on the European market against the Volvo XC40 Recharge (49,000 to 58,000 euros), Lexus UX300 e (50,000 euros) and Volkswagen ID4 (39,000 to 48,000 euros) all of them being more expensive. The main asset of the G3 is therefore its sale price, which could open the door to many European markets.
Monthly BEV registrations in Europe between 2019 and today
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Monthly BEV registrations in Europe between 2019 and today
- Monthly registrations of battery electric cars (BEVs) in Europe show a constant evolution month after month, but a strong increase is observed from the spring of 2020, just after the March-April lockdown period. But it is more than a catch-up that is observed as the monthly sales increased from an average level of 20,000 to 40,000 units between January 2019 and January 2020, to quickly reached 80,000 units in September 2020 and 145,000 in December 2020, after stabilizing at 65,000 in October 2020 and 73,000 in November 2020.
- December 2020 was a special month as Volkswagen ID3 registrations rose (25,000 sales), for the first time ahead of the Tesla Model 3 (19,000 sales) and Renault Zoé (16,000 sales).
- Over the whole 2020 year, the Renault Zoe (96,650 sales) remains the European market leader in the electric car category, ahead of the Tesla Model 3 (74,704 sales) and the Volkswagen ID3 (47,249 sales).
- In the first half of 2021, the Tesla Model 3 however took the lead in the European market in the battery electric car category (65,348 sales), thus beating the Renault Zoé (31,411 sales) and Volkswagen ID3 (30,334 sales).
- Registrations of electric cars resumed a discontinued growth from March 2021 (100,000 sales), after a temporary low in January and February. BEV sales reached 70,000 sales in April 2021, 80,000 in May 2021 and 120,000 in June 2021. Sales for the first half of 2021 are therefore up by 127% compared to the first half of 2020. However in the first half of the year, in terms of smoothed months, there is a perceptible slowdown which may give a trend for the rest of the year.
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続きを読む... Monthly BEV registrations in Europe between 2019 and today