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上で公開 2021年07月07日

• Production
• Renault-Nissan-Avtovaz
• United Kingdom

Nissan plans to build a battery plant for electric cars

- Nissan is negotiating with the British government to build a battery plant in the UK as part of a post-Brexit plan to make the country the main production center for the carmaker outside of Japan and the United States.

- The new plant will be built near Sunderland which currently produces the Nissan Qashqai, Nissan Juke and Nissan Leaf for the European market, including Russia. This plant, with a capacity of 500,000 vehicles per year, produced only 245,649 units in 2020, compared to 371,304 in 2019 and 442,254 in 2018.

- In 2020, the Nissan Qashqai accounted for 149,426 units produced, the Nissan Juke 72,745 units and the Nissan Leaf 23,478 units. The Infiniti Q30 & QX30 were discontinued in 2019 and the Nissan Note in 2017.

- The Sunderland plant has therefore been in decline for several years and the carmaker wants to boost the plant with the future production of a battery electric crossover and the construction of a plant to assemble batteries for electric cars. Nissan will cooperate with the Chinese battery maker Envision AESC, with which Nissan has already worked for more than 10 years. The future battery plant will be able to equip 200,000 battery electric cars from 2024 (9 GWh), then 500,000 units in 2030 (25 GWh), and even 35 GWh in the long term. However, it is not clear whether the plant will only assemble cells already produced elsewhere, or if it will cover the entire process, from cell production to assembly into modules and then into packs.

- With the expected growth in sales of electric cars all over the world, Nissan, like other carmakers, confirms that the production of batteries on a large scale, not only to supply the brands of the Renault-Nissan group but also brands of other automotive groups, is a necessity. Thus the vision of cooperation between carmakers for the production of batteries is moving away in favour of "individual" production.

    

 

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上で公開 2021年06月24日

• Production
• Renault-Nissan-Avtovaz
• Spain

Renault will produce its hybrid models mainly in Spain

- Renault has announced that it has chosen Spain to produce its next five hybrid (HEV) and plug-in hybrid (PHEV) models scheduled for 2022-2023-2024. The country will therefore become one of the most important poles of hybridization for Renault brand vehicles, France still expecting to become the most important pole for battery electric vehicles (BEV) of the brand. Two plants will produce these HEVs and PHEVs: Valladolid and Palencia.

- In Valladolid will be produced a B-segment SUV type HEV (probably the Captur) and another new hybrid vehicle (HEV), also a B-segment SUV type.

- At Palencia, the renewed Kadjar in PHEV version will be produced as well as the renewed Méganesedan and the station wagon in PHEV version. It is to be noted that the BEV version of the Mégane will be produced in Douai.

- Spain, which is the second largest car producer in Europe behind Germany, is already largely involved in the electrification. The Opel plant in Zaragoza produces the electric Corsa, the Mercedes plant in Vitoria produces the electric V-Class and Vito, the Ford plant in Valencia produces the Kuga plug-in hybrids. And Spain will benefit from the transformation of the Martorell plant, which from 2025 will produce the future B-segment BEVs of the Volkswagen group.

    

 

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続きを読む... Renault will produce its hybrid models mainly in Spain

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上で公開 2021年07月07日

• Registrations

BEV + PHEV worldwide sales by brand and model in the first 4 months of 2021

- Over the first 4 months of 2021, 1,519,566 battery electric (BEVs) and plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) vehicles were sold worldwide (i.e. 2.66 times more than in the first quarter of 2020), including 666,572 in China , 616,845 in Europe and 236,149 in other regions, mainly the United States. China and Europe are therefore neck and neck in the sales of BEV + PHEV cars, but in terms of market share, Europe keeps the advantage because its overall market is one and a half times smaller than the Chinese market.

- The BEV + PHEV market share in Europe thus stands at 15% of the passenger car market, while it does not exceed 10% in China. And it is only 5% in the United States, waiting for a new policy to really develop this market. However, in the world, the market share remains at a very low level (7.5%), because for many regions electric and hybrid engines remain inaccessible. But this market share is growing overall every year, and the past three years have seen the strongest growth.

- In the first 4 months of 2021, Tesla remains by far the leading brand in this electric market, with 216,079 units sold, ahead of GM-Wuling (133,720 units), Volkswagen (89,655 units), BMW (83,885 units), BYD (78,690 units), Mercedes (72,139 units), Volvo (63,375 units), SAIC MG-Roewe (57,713 units), Audi (47,715 units) and Peugeot (39,329 units).

- The best-selling models over the period were the Tesla Model 3 (141,696 units), WulingHongGuang Mini EV (125,925 units), Tesla Model Y (72,296 units) which alone represent 22.5% of BEV + PHEV vehicles registrations in the world.

    

 

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続きを読む... BEV + PHEV worldwide sales by brand and model in the first 4 months of 2021

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上で公開 2021年06月24日

• Registrations
• Geely
• Tata
• Honda

Honda, Volvo and Jaguar target 100% electric sales by 2040

- Honda is targeting 100% of its sales to be BEV (battery electric vehicles) by 2040 in its main markets (USA, China, Japan), rising to 40% in 2030 and 80% in 2035.

- For Japan, the carmaker believes that this plan will be too ambitious, which is why it plans a 20% share in 2030 and 70% in 2035. Today, Japan is resilient to this type of car, as in 2020, there are only 31,000 sales of this type of model on a global market of nearly 4 million passenger cars (less than 1% of the market).

- Honda is not the only producer to count on 100% sales of electric cars by 2040, as Volvo and Jaguar have also announced this target, the first expected for 2030, the second for 2025. Volvo expects battery electric vehicles to represent 50% of its global sales in 2025 and plug-in hybrid models (PHEVs) to represent the remaining 50%. Then, from 2030, all cars sold by Volvo will be 100% BEVs. We have also seen that the Stellantis group, for its part, is forecasting on 70% of its sales in electric motors by 2030.

- All these objectives are announced knowing that the demand for electric vehicles remains low today in most regions of the world (from 1% to 10% depending on the region). In China, for example, it does not reach 10% of total registrations.

- In Europe, it does not exceed 7% for BEVs and 9% for PHEVs, and less than 2% in countries located in Eastern Europe. In the United States, it is less than 3.5% and in Japan less than 1%. So there is still a long way to go.

    

 

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続きを読む... Honda, Volvo and Jaguar target 100% electric sales by 2040