The Chinese government unveiled its policy to encourage the purchase of hybrid and electric vehicles

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The Chinese government unveiled its policy to encourage the purchase of hybrid and electric vehicles
 

- In early 2010, the Chinesegovernmentannounceditswill to put into circulation 500,000 electric and hybridvehicles in China over a period of threeyears (2010-2011-2012). It counted on a particularnumber of incentivepolicies in place in major cities of the country and a budget of 150 million euros to develop the production of electricvehiclesthrough an alliance of 16 public companies (of whichthreewerecarmakers) .


- It did not achievethis goal, the Chinesegovernmenthencepushed the deadline back  by announcing in 2012 itswill to sell 500,000 hybridvehiclesannually to reach a fleet of 5 million vehicles of this type in 2020.


- It shouldbenotedthat the market for suchvehiclestodayremains marginal in China (3000 electric and hybrid cars in 2011, 12,000 units in 2012, 25,000 units in the first six months of 2013). The main obstacle to the development of electric cars is the pricewhichistoo high. In addition, infrastructures (charging stations) are insufficient. While China had set a target to build 400,000 charging points by 2015, fewerthan 20,000 are installedat the moment.


- The Chinesegovernment has decided to extend and increase subsidies for the purchase of hybrid and electric cars. Theseaidscannowreach 60,000 yuan (7,340 euros) for an electricvehicle, and 35,000 yuan (4,280 euros) for a plug-in hybrid model. On the other hand, a 10% reduction of air pollution at the national level by 2017 wasagreed (from 20% to 25% in large cities), whichshould encourage large cities to introducepoliticalincentives.

 
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VW could build an SUV in its U.S. plant of Chattanooga

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VW could build an SUV in its U.S. plant of Chattanooga
 
- Volkswagen plans to start the production of a recreational vehicle at its U.S. plant in Chattanooga (Tennessee) towards 2016. Let us recall that the United States is an important market for recreational vehicles.

- Not to mention, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, which traditionally produce such vehicles in the country, Asian and German carmakers will also make this type of models. Thus, BMW will produces the X3, X4, X5 and X6, while Mercedes will makes the ML, GL and R (and soon MLC).

- For now, Volkswagen has not revealed the name of the recreational vehicle that will be manufactured in Chattanooga. It may therefore be the future Tiguan, the future Touareg or an intermediate model between the Tiguan and Touareg.

- The Volkswagen plant in Mexico (Puebla) is also bidding to host the future production of this compact recreational vehicle, but for the moment Chattanooga seems to be preferred by the German group, in particular for reasons of available capacity (the Puebla plant is reaching saturation).

- Let us recall that the Chattanooga plant is currently producing a U.S. version of the Passat that exists nowhere else. Volkswagen produced 157,000 vehicles on this site in 2011, 177,000 in 2012 and 109,000 in the first eight months of 2013, with a capacity of about 170,000 units per year. 
 
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The hierarchy of car producing countries has been turned upside between 2002 and 2013

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The hierarchy of car producing countries has been turned upside between 2002 and 2013
 
- The hierarchy of automobile car producing countries has been turned upside between 2002 and 2013.

- The country with the highest decline during this period was France. Due to various offshoring to lower-cost countries, models at the end of their life span (Laguna Area), the deleting of premium models (Vel Satis, 607, C6) and less successful minivans (Scenic) against compact SUVs, automobile production in France has fallen in recent years. As result, from the 4th place worldwide in 2002 as a producer, France went to 12th place in 2012 and even went down to 13th place in 2013.

- Spain was behind France in 2002 (1 000 000 vehicles apart) and overtook France in 2013. This country has nevertheless declined significantly since 2002 (from 7th to 11th place). Britain in 2013 is just behind France (100,000 units apart over 6 months), whereas in 2002 it produced half as many vehicles.

- Russia, Canada and Thailand, formerly behind France, are now leading. Thailand thus produced three times fewer cars than France in 2002 and is well ahead in 2013.

- The countries of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) that occupied the 5th, 11th, 13th and 15th places in 2002 occupied in 2013 the 1st, 6th, 7th, 12th places. While France's was beyond all four of them in 2002, they are now ahead in 2013.
 
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Fiat is going to build a new factory in China with GAC

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Fiat is going to build a new factory in China with GAC
 

- The Chinese joint venture Fiat-Chrysler withChinesecarmaker GAC (Guangzhou Automotive Corporation) is in the process of making an investment of nearly 600 million euros in Canton (Guangzhou)to build a plant with a production capacity of 160 000 vehicles per year.


- Fiat wouldproduce off-road as well as cars withlowconsumption (small cars and electric cars), categories of high sale potential by manufacturers in China.


- The Italian group has already a production site in China, Changsha (Hunan province of China), where are manufacturedViaggio sedans (segment C). Fiat produced 13,505 units in the plant in 2012 (against 0 in 2011) and 25,507 in the first eightmonths of 2013, which corresponds to a rate of 40,000 throughout the year.


- Let us recallthat in this plant in Changsha, Fiat plans to produce Jeep cars. It couldbe the recent Cherokee unveiledthissummer, or a smaller Jeep derivedfrom the 500 X which are to beunveiled in 2014.


- According to ourlatest information, future Jeep modelswillbeassembled in the factory in Changsha and wouldsharetheirplatformwith the Fiat Viaggio, whichmightsuggestthatthiswouldbe the recent Cherokee.


- For now, Chrysler Group cars are not produced in China.

 
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Volkswagen sold 6.2 million vehicles in the first eight months of 2013

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Volkswagen sold 6.2 million vehicles in the first eight months of 2013
 

- Volkswagen has announcedthatitsoldworldwide 6.2 million vehicles (passenger cars and light commercial vehicles) in the first eightmonths of 2013, an increase of 4.5% over the first eightmonths of 2012.


- The carmaker has confirmedthat the situation in Europe wouldremaindifficult in the comingmonths, but signs of stabilization are now visible.Volkswagen believesthat the automobile industryis in a more difficult situation thatitwas 10 or 20 yearsago. Indeed, the industryisfacing a fundamental shift and youngconsumers no longer maintain the samerelationshipwith cars and their usage.


- In addition, electromobilityisbecoming an important issue for all carmakers. Volkswagen thus has 100% electric versions of the Golf and Up! at Frankfurt.


- Volkswagen expects a production of 1 million vehiclesfromitsmodular MQB platform in 2013 and 2,000,000 in 2014, 3,000,000 in 2015 and 4,000,000 in 2016. By 2016, over 40 modelsshouldbeassembledfromthiscommonplatform in operationsince 2010. The first modelsbased on this architecture are the Volkswagen Golf, Audi A3, Skoda Octavia and Seat Leon. Future Volkswagen Tourans, Sportsvan Golfs, Passats, CCs, Sciroccos, Tiguans, Audi TTs, A3 Sportsvans, Skoda Superbs, Seat Alteaswillbeequippedwiththisfeature

 
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