Geneva Motor Show 2024: BYD
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Geneva Motor Show 2024: BYD
BYD, today the world number 2 producer of BEVs behind Tesla, is very present on the (formerly) big European car show. BYD is in Geneva will present the following models :
- Seal U:this model will be presented in its PHEV version, named DM-i. The 18,3 kWh battery of this 4,8 meter long SUV allows a pure electrical range of 100 km. Inovev estimates the European sales volume of the Seal U at around 20.000 units in 2030.
- Tang:this 4,87 meter long premium SUV will be presented in an advanced version with faster recharge and a range of around 530 km. Inovev estimates the European sales volume of the Tang at around 7.000 units in 2030.
- Yangwang U8: The premium brand of BYD will present its 5,32 meter long F-Segment SUV U8. This PHEV has four electric motors and a 49 kWh battery, which allows a 200 km range. This car seems more fitting for the American market than the European one. So far a date for the market start in Europe has not yet been announced. Inovev forecasts for the European market a volume of the U8 at around 1.000 in 2030.
- Denza D9: The Joint Venture, created in 2010 by BYD and Mercedes, has already presented this PHEV-Minivan at the IAA in Munich 2023. It is 5,25 meter long and comes with a 40 kWh battery. Its European success is questionable as vans have less and less sales volume here. Inovev estimates the European sales volume of the D9 at around 1.500 in 2030.
- Denza N7: This premium SUV is 4,8 meter long and is only available as a BEV, with a 390 kW strong electric motor and a 82,5 kWh battery, which allows a range of 1 000 km. A PHEV version was announced for 2023 but has not been marketed yet. It may be presented in Geneva. Inovev estimates the European sales volume of the N7 at around 1.500 units in 2030.
Geneva Motor Show 2024: Renault Group
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Geneva Motor Show 2024: Renault Group
The Renault-group with its brands Renault, Alpine and Dacia, will be the only big European carmaker group present at the Geneva Motorshow. The Renault group brands will use the spotlight to present their novelties:
- Renault 5: This novelty will be presented in it final form. The concept car was already presented during the Paris Motor Show in 2022. The R5 will replace the Zoe and will be produced in Douai, France. The R5 measures 3.92 m in length, for 1.77 m in width and 1.50 m in height. It is based on the new AmpR Small platform (previously CMF-B EV). It will be mounted with an electric motor of 95, 120 or 150 hp and two options of batteries pack: 40 or 52kWh. Inovevforecasts a production of 100.000 vehicles per year.
- Megane E-Tech: This full-electric (BEV) sedan of the C-Segment is produced in Douai in France. It is 4.2 meter long, 1.9 meter wide and 1.5 meter high. Its battery has a range from 42 to 62kWh. Inovev registered around 41.856 vehicles sold in 2023.
- Scenic E-Tech: The BEV C-Segment SUV just started its career at the end of last year in France. Inovev forecasts a production of 60.000 units per year, produced at Douai (France) plant.
- Espace E-Tech: This full hybrid (F-HEV) D-Segment MPV started its careers in April 2023 and was not so successful outside France (Inovev registered only 6.833 sales in Europe in 2023).
- Rafale: This D-Segment HEV- SUV is produced in Palencia (Spain) since 2023. Inovev could only register sales so far in Spain. The cruising production Inovev forecast is 15.000 vehicles per year.
- Dacia Duster: The 3rd generation of this C-Segment SUV, which is based on the CMF-B platform, will be equipped with thermal, MHEV and HEV engines. Inovev forecasts around 240.000 units per year, which will be produced in Romania.
- Dacia Spring: A new design of this A-Segment BEV-SUV will be presented in Geneva. Inovev expects around 59.000 Springs per year, which will be still produced in Slovenia.
- Alpine A-290: The sports-brand of Renault may present the concept car A-290, a sports car derived from R5. It will therefore based on the same platform as R5 and we can expect the same dimensions. The biggest difference apart from design and additional equipment will certainly be the motor.
Global automobile production increased by almost 10% in 2023
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Global automobile production increased by almost 10% in 2023
- While the global vehicle market (PC+UV = passenger cars, light and heavy utility vehicles) increased by almost 13% in 2023 compared to 2022, catching up partially the sales missed in 2020-2021-2022. The global volume production of light vehicles increased by almost 10%.
- This observation indicates that the year 2023 was a period of destocking (more sales than production) after a year 2022 which had been marked by massive restocking after two years of destocking (2020-2021) due to the COVID crisis followed by the semiconductor crisis, which had disrupted the activity of automobile factories.
- The volume of PC+UV production has thus exceeded the 90 million mark in 2023, after having plunged to less than 80 million units in 2020, but we are still far from the figures recorded in 2017 and 2018, which were close to 100 million.
- The main producing countries remain China (33% of world automobile production), Europe 29 countries (16% of world production), the United States (12% of world production) and Japan (10% of world production). Seven out of ten vehicles leave an assembly plant in these countries.
- Behind, we note the presence of India (6% of world production) ahead of South Korea (5% of world production), Mexico (4% of world production) and Brazil (2% of world production). Note that production in Russia remained as low as in 2022, the sharply increasing market in 2023 having been mainly supplied by imports from China.
Geneva Motor Show 2024: A smaller show but with high challenges
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Geneva Motor Show 2024: A smaller show but with high challenges
- The Geneva Motor show is now coming back from 26.02. to 03.03.2024. It has been held every year since 1905 and was interrupted by the pandemic between 2020 and 2023 (2023 edition was held in Qatar).
- But this edition will take place under difficult circumstances.Already the last edition in 2019 welcomed 602.000 visitors, around 9% less visitors than the 2018 edition. The Qatar-Edition in 2023 could only attract 180.000 visitors. Additionally the European carmakers want rather to present themselves in their home-country exhibition. This could be observed at the Mondial Paris 2022, which was basically a French-Chinese show and at the IAA 2023 in Munich, which was a German-Chinese show. Or they wait for the new relevant Shanghai/Beijing Motor shows or recently the CES in Las Vegas, which drew major attention.
- Both, carmakers and event managers seem to have acknowledged those facts. The restart of the Geneva Motor show looks therefore rather small. In 2019 the event occupied 6 of the 7 expo-halls (surface:106 000 m2) and 93 exhibitors presented 29 novelties. This time there will be only 2 halls (surface: 60 000 m2) to visit with around 20 exhibitors from which only 4 are major carmakers: Renault, Dacia, BYD and MG. Others to mention are Isuzu, Lucid, Silence, Microlino and Pininfarina.
- The event managers want to fight the lack of exhibitors with a new show-concept. Therefore there will be additional and partially interactive show-rooms for car-related themes like racing, mobility, vintage or design.
Top 20 best-selling vehicles in China in 2023: BYD places 6 models
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Top 20 best-selling vehicles in China in 2023: BYD places 6 models
- The Chinese market reached 28.6 million light vehicles (PC+LUV) in 2023 (including 25.9 million passenger cars and 2.7 million light utility vehicles), an increase of 11.3% compared to 2022. Of this total, sedans, station wagons, coupes and convertibles represented 11.2 million sales or 39% of the market last year.
- The most popular vehicles are SUVs which represented 13.3 million sales, or 46% of the market, in constant growth for around twenty years. The remaining 15% is occupied by MPVs (1.1 million sales; 4% of the market), minivans (300 000; 1% of the market) which have declined significantly over the past twenty years and vans (2.7 million sales; 10% of the market).
- The ranking of the 20 best-selling vehicles in China last year reveals the presence for the first time of 6 BYD brand models, including 4 in the first 5 places. This is a performance which allows us to understand why this carmaker has almost doubled its sales in China between 2022 and 2023… However, the best-selling model in China in 2023 is the Tesla Model Y (locally produced) as in 2022, but with more than 600,000 sales last year, this model is well ahead of all its pursuers.
- Three Volkswagens still appear in the Top 20 but the good days for the German carmaker have passed and will not return, in particular because the market share of Chinese carmakers continues to increase (57% in 2023). The Wuling Bingo took over from the WulingHongGuang but its sales are lower due in particular to competition from the recent BYD Seagull which sells better than it (280,000 units compared to 235,000).