Volvo Cars will produce cars in India
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Volvo Cars will produce cars in India
- Swedish carmaker Volvo Cars (a subsidiary of the Chinese group Geely) has announced that it will start producing cars in India, hoping to capture part of the local demand for Premium cars. Sales figures for Premium brands are not officially known, but Inovev estimates their volume at 25,000 / 30,000 units in 2016 (in a market of 3.67 million vehicles).
- Sales figures for Volvo Cars in India are estimated at 1,400 units in 2016 (all imported), which is 5% of the premium market in India. The Swedish manufacturer wants to double this figure by 2020 (to 10% of the Indian Premium market) by manufacturing locally from kits (CKD), which would avoid import taxes. Today, the best-selling premium brands in India are BMW, Mercedes and Land Rover that already produce CKD in India, precisely to avoid import tax.
- Volvo Cars has signed an agreement with truck manufacturer Volvo Trucks to install its own car assembly line in the Hoskote plant near Bangalore where Volvo Trucks produces trucks and buses.
- The manufacturer believes that India has great potential for development. Volvo Cars already manufactures cars in Sweden, Belgium, China, Malaysia and is expected to start production in the United States in 2018.
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Inovev expects 95,000 sales a year of the new Skoda Karoq
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Inovev expects 95,000 sales a year of the new Skoda Karoq
- Skoda, the Czech subsidiary of the Volkswagen group, unveils the replacement for the compact SUV Yeti (whose origins go back to 2009). It has a new name (Karoq) and is more clearly in the C segment (with such cars as the Nissan Qashqai, Renault Kadjar, Peugeot 3008, Volkswagen Tiguan, Opel Grandland, Ford Kuga, Seat Ateca).
- Karoq is built on the MQB platform, taking the engines, several body panels, and the overall dimensions (length: 4.38m, width: 1.84m, height: 1.60m) of the Seat Ateca. It will also be produced alongside the Ateca on the Czech site of Kvasiny, where the Yeti was produced and where the Kodiaq (D segment vehicle which can be considered as the 7-seater version of the Karoq) is also produced, as well as the Superb sedan (E segment).
- The Karoq engines are therefore identical to those of the Seat Ateca: 3 cylinders 1.0 gasoline 115hp, 4 cylinders 1.5 gasoline 150hp, 4 cylinders 1.6 diesel 115hp and 4 cylinders 2.0 diesel 150hp and 190hp.
- Sales of the Karoq will start in the fourth quarter of 2017. Inovev expects 95,000 sales a year, while Yeti has never exceeded an average of 65,000 annual sales over its eight-year series life.
- A third SUV (B segment) will complete the Skoda range by 2019. Known today as Polar, this SUV will be close to the future Seat Arona and Volkswagen T-Cross. Ultimately, the Volkswagen group should have 25 SUVs.
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2016 European Hybrid Vehicle (HEV) Market
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2016 European Hybrid Vehicle (HEV) Market
- The European market for non-plug-in hybrid vehicles (HEVs) picked up again in 2016 (+ 9%), despite a decline in 2015 (-3%). This growth is mainly due to the launch of new products, such as Toyota Prius, Toyota RAV4, Hyundai Ioniq and Kia Niro.
- In 2016, the volume of sales of non-plug-in hybrid vehicles reached 233,000 units. Over the same period, the market for electric vehicles (BEV) and rechargeable hybrids (PHEV) in Europe was 223,000 units in 2016 (+ 18% compared to 2015).
- In 2016, for the first time, the volume of sales of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles in Europe is almost equivalent to that of non-plug-in hybrids. But with the ramp up of the new Hyundai Ioniq, Kia Niro and especially Toyota CHR, the sales volume of non-plug-in hybrids will rise again in 2017.
- The European market for non-plug-in hybrid (HEVs) is dominated by the Toyota group, with 90% of sales in 2016. The strategy of the Japanese group so far has been to strongly promote this type of motorisation, rather than bet on diesel, rechargeable hybrid, or electric. One Toyota car out of three sold in Europe is now equipped with a hybrid engine. The best-selling models in Europe are Yaris (67,000 units), Auris (58,000 units) and RAV4 (28,000 units) ahead of the Prius (21,000 units).
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Chevrolet will stop sales in India and South Africa
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Chevrolet will stop sales in India and South Africa
- After deciding to withdraw from the European and the Russian market, the Chevrolet brand (the largest brand in the General Motors group: 4.18 million worldwide sales in 2016) has announced that it will also withdraw from the Indian and South African markets. In 2016, Chevrolet sold only 29,000 cars on the Indian market (with a total market of 3.67 million units) and 20,000 cars on the South African market (out of total sales of 520 000 units).
- In both markets, Chevrolet has small assembly plants (one in India and one in South Africa).
- In India, the Talegaon plant (59,000 units produced in 2016, mainly Spark) will continue to manufacture vehicles for foreign markets (this proportion will increase from 50% to 100% of units produced) pending a possible sale to another manufacturer (which GM prefers to factory closure).
- In South Africa, the Port Elizabeth plant (22,000 units produced in 2016) will cease manufacturing Chevrolet models. It will be sold to Isuzu, which already owns half of the plant, through a local joint venture. Isuzu will continue to manufacture mid-size pickups there.
- In addition, Chevrolet will sell its shares in Isuzu to a joint venture in East Africa and withdraw from this part of Africa. All these decisions will take effect before the end of the second half of 2017.
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2016 Japanese Hybrid Vehicle (HEV) Market
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2016 Japanese Hybrid Vehicle (HEV) Market
- With nearly 1 million non-plug-in hybrid vehicles sold in Japan in 2016 (up 5%), the Japanese market is the world's leading non-plug-in hybrid vehicle market (HEV), far ahead of the US (347,000 in 2016), Europe (233,000 in 2016) and China (less than 50,000 in 2016).
- The Japanese non-plug-in hybrid market had declined in 2015, but increased again in 2016, due to the renewal of the Toyota Prius which holds a prominent position (25% of the non-plug-in hybrid market).
- This is due to the fact that Toyota has been promoting this type of engine since 1997 and has made it available in most of its models, with the result that today half of the Toyota vehicles sold in Japan are non-plug-in hybrid vehicles (HEVs), two thirds of the HEVs sold in Japan are Toyota, and that HEVS make up a quarter of the Japanese market overall. In comparison, the market for battery electric vehicles (BEV) and plug-in hybrids (PHEV) is very low in Japan: there are only 22,500 sales in 2016.
- The Toyota group has five models in the top 10 hybrids (HEVs) in 2016: Prius, Prius C (Aqua), Corolla, Crown, RX400h and NX300h. Suzuki, Nissan and Honda are offering new models that account for one-third of hybrid sales in Japan.
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