The best concept cars shown in Geneva
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The best concept cars shown in Geneva
- At the 2019 Geneva Motor Show, Audi presented a Q4 E-Tron concept that is an SUV with a 100% electric motor. This car fits in the manufacturer's SUV range between Q3 and Q5. According to the manufacturer, this concept is very similar to the production model that will be on the market from autumn 2020.
- Skoda presented a Vision IV concept that prefigures the brand's first model built on the MEB platform used on all Volkswagen Group electric models. The Skoda model ,which adopts a compact SUV line ,could be launched in 2020 or 2021.
- Honda presented a 100% electric 4-door compact sedan concept that will be on the market in the first half of 2020. Honda expects all its models sold in Europe to be electrified (100% electric or hybrid) from 2025. Today, Honda sales are only at 1% of the European market.
- Fiat presented a compact electric 4-door sedan concept called Centoventi that could be marketed in the early 2020s as the successor to the Panda. Fiat wants to make it the cheapest electric car on the market.
- Mercedes presented an EQV concept that prefigures the 100% electric V-Class that will be on the market from 2020. This evolution was foreseeable since the launch of the electric Vito last year.
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Geely plans to build 50,000 new Polestar 2 per year
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Geely plans to build 50,000 new Polestar 2 per year
- Polestar is a brand of the Geely group, created in 2015, and dedicated to Volvo based, 100% electric, premium cars . While the Polestar 1 is a 100% electric coupé, the Polestar 2, presented in Geneva, is a 100% electric 4-door sedan that develops a power output of around 400 hp and boasts a range of 500 kilometers. Its CMA platform is the base for the Volvo XC40 and Lynk&Co 01, 02, 03.
- The Polestar 2 is a direct rival of the Tesla Model 3 which has just arrived on the European market.
- The Polestar 2 will arrive on the European market from the first quarter of 2020, just a few months after its launch in China. It will be produced in Volvo's Chinese factory in Daqing, , which already produces the Polestar 1 coupé and will produce the Polestar 3, which will be a compact SUV, next year.
- Geely aims for an annual production of 50,000 Polestar 2 out of a total of 100,000 units for all Polestar models, including the Polestar 1 coupe, Polestar 2 sedan ,and Polestar 3 SUV.
- Of this total, the manufacturer hopes to sell some tens of thousands of these three models on the European continent. Tesla sold 30,000 electric cars in 2018 in Europe, without the Model 3 which started selling in Europe in February 2019. Geely's objective for Polestar therefore seems quite ambitious.
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Global sales of electrified cars in 2018
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Global sales of electrified cars in 2018
- While the Chinese government has introduced quotas for manufacturers based in China so that their sales of electrified cars are around 10% of their total sales on this market in 2019 ,and will be even more in the following years, the European Union has preferred to act differently but with a comparable target: it imposes a 40% reduction in CO2 emissions for new vehicles sold in Europe by 2030.
- There are several ways for manufacturers to reduce their CO2 emissions. Electrification is one of the routes that shows rapid results. Today, the share of 100% electric vehicles is about 1% of the market in Europe compared to 4% in China. If we include plug-in hybrid cars, this share rises to 2% in Europe compared to 5% in China. If we also include non-rechargeable hybrid cars, this share rises to 5.5% in Europe compared to 5.5% in China.
- There are therefore - in terms of market share - as many electrified cars in Europe as in China, but there are many more 100% electric cars sold in China than in Europe and many more non-rechargeable hybrid cars sold in Europe than in China.
- We can now expect strong growth in sales of electrified cars in both China and Europe. The next Frankfurt Motor Show will give a clear idea of the electric car of the 2020s.
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Inovev forecasts 50,000 new Ssangyong Korando per year
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Inovev forecasts 50,000 new Ssangyong Korando per year
- Ssangyong (a subsidiary of Indian manufacturer Mahindra) is a modest- sized, Korean manufacturer of SUVs , never exceeding 200,000 sales per year. Its current range includes the Tivoli (B segment), Korando (C segment), Rexton (D segment) and Rodius (E segment), as well as the Musso pickup truck ,which replaces the Actyon Sports.
- At the 2019 Geneva Motor Show, Ssangyong presented the new generation of the Korando, whose style is strongly inspired by that of the Tivoli. The previous generation of the Korando was launched in 2010.
- This new Ssangyong SUV is making a real leap forward since ,for the first time ,it will be available in a 100% electric version. The Korando will also be available in a petrol version (4 cylinders 1500 turbo) and a diesel version (4 cylinders 1600 turbo).
- The Korando competes with the generalist SUVs in the C segment, such as the Nissan Qashqai, Toyota CHR, Honda HRV, Renault Kadjar, Peugeot 3008, Citroën C5 Aircross, Opel Grandland, Ford Kuga, Volkswagen T-Roc, Seat Ateca, Skoda Karoq, Hyundai Tucson, Kia Sportage, none of which is currently available in a 100% electric version.
- Ssangyong Korando is produced in the manufacturer's Korean factory in Pyongtaek. Inovev expects annual production of 50,000 units per year, with 30,000 sold in Korea and 20,000 exported.
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Ford considering withdrawing from the Russian market
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Ford considering withdrawing from the Russian market
- Four years after the GM group's withdrawal from the Russian market (only the Chevrolet Niva manufactured at the Togliatti site is still on the market today), the Ford group could follow the same path.
- Indeed, the second American manufacturer has announced that it plans to stop producing its models in its three Russian factories, two of which are leased to the Sollers group.
- In 2018, Ford sold 53,000 cars in Russia, compared to 50,000 in 2017 and 43,000 in 2016, but its market share continues to decline year after year. It fell to 3% in 2018, from 3.2% in 2017 and 3.8% in 2013, but above all Ford assembles six models in three different factories in Russia: Focus and Mondeo in Saint Petersburg, Ecosport and Fiesta in NaberezhnyeChelnye (Tatarstan), Kuga and Explorer in Yelabuga (Tatarstan). In total, Ford assembled 38,000 cars in Russia in 2018 compared to 45,000 in 2017 and 39,000 in 2016, while its production capacity exceeds 350,000 cars per year. Ford is increasingly using cars made abroad that are more heavily taxed. In Ford’s opinion, this situation cannot continue.
- As a first step, Ford decided to stop production in at least two of its Russian plants, pending a more radical decision to withdraw permanently from the Russian market. Ford had been present on the Russian market since 2002, thanks to the establishment of a factory in Saint Petersburg.
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