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上で公開 2021年06月04日

• Production
• Stellantis

Stellantis will focus its production on 4 platforms instead of 23

- The merger of PSA with FCA has changed the platform strategy developed by the PSA group last year. In addition, the future Euro 7 standard (which could be voted by the European Parliament at the end of 2021) could accelerate the switch to electrified vehicles by 2030. The Stellantis group is therefore now counting on 38% of its sales in BEV + PHEV in Europe in 2025 (against 14% in 2021) and 70% in 2030. The carmaker will focus its efforts on the pooling of platforms between the ex-PSA and ex-FCA models and the generalization of electrified motors throughout its models, to reach a sales level of electrified models of around 70% of its total sales in 2030. In the USA, the objectives are 31% of sales of electrified vehicles in 2025 (compared to 4% in 2021) and 35% in 2030.

- Stellantis also plans to install a global battery cell capacity of 130 GWh in 2025 and 250 GWh in 2030, which would be equivalent to equipping 2.5 million electric vehicles in 2025 and 5 million in 2030 (for an average 50 KWh battery). These figures show that Stellantis expects a sharp decline of its sales by 2030, depending on how the market will react to the electrification of the offer. Today Stellantis sales are around 8 million vehicles per year.

- Regarding platforms, Stellantis wants to focus on four electrified platforms (compared to 23 today) named STLA. In 2023, the STLA Medium (segments C and D) and STLA Large (segments D and E) will appear, then in 2024 the STLA Frame (large SUV and pick-up) and in 2026 the STLA Small (segments A-B-C). Before this date, the 2nd version of the eCMP will appear at the end of 2022 (segments A-B-C). 

    

 

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続きを読む... Stellantis will focus its production on 4 platforms instead of 23

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上で公開 2021年06月04日

Dongfeng launches in Europe BEVs under the Seres brand

- Following MG, Polestar, Lynk & Co and Aiways, which sold a total of 30,000 vehicles in Europe last year, Dongfeng is launching in Europe the Seres brand, which markets battery electric vehicles (BEVs). Note that Dongfeng has been struggling in China since 2017, its production volume having been halved in three years.

- The Seres brand will be launched with the Seres 3 and Seres 5, followed by Seres 7 next year. Unlike Lynk & Co and Aiways who have opted for a distribution through internet, the Dongfeng group brand intends to rely on traditional and physical distribution groups and local dealers, which is the way adopted by MG (a subsidiary of SAIC group). The Dongfeng brand has announced the creation of 40 dealerships at the end of April 2021 and targets totally 80 at the end of December 2021 and then 100 in 2022. This is roughly the current number of dealerships for the brand MG.  All Seres models sold in Europe are produced in China, where they will be imported. We can therefore expect very competitive prices.

- Geely on its side is launching a new brand for battery electric vehicles (after having created Polestar and Lynk & Co) which intends to compete with Tesla in China. This brand named Zeekr will be positioned in the Premium market (where Polestar is already present) and will adopt a specific platform named SEA which will also be used by Polestar, Lynk & Co and Smart. Geely intends to dedicate the Zeekr brand for the Chinese market but does not exclude to export its models all over the world. The first model of the Zeekr brand will be launched at the end of 2021.

    

 

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続きを読む... Dongfeng launches in Europe BEVs under the Seres brand

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上で公開 2021年06月04日

• Production
• Italy
• Stellantis

Alfa-Romeo cancels the Giorgio platform for its future models

- Following the arrival in 2023 of the STLA Large platform for electrified Stellantis vehicles in D/E segments, the Alfa-Romeo brand will cancel the Giorgio platform on which the Giulia and Stelvio were designed, the only models of the brand still in production today.
All future Alfa-Romeo models will therefore be based on the new STLA Large platform, derived from the STLA Medium, which is itself based on the e-VMP platform, planned for the next Peugeot 3008 launched in 2023. All future Alfa-Romeos will therefore be battery electric or plug-in hybrids.

- Two exceptions although to this new platform policy: Tonale C-segment compact SUV which is ready to be produced and which will be marketed in March 2022) and a future B-segment SUV that will be based on the e-CMP platform dedicated to B-segment cars such as Peugeot 208-2008 and Opel Corsa-Mokka. This model will be produced in Poland, at the Tichy plant, probably from 2024. Other versions sold under the Fiat and Jeep brands will also be produced on the same lines.

- No doubt that the Lancia brand will also benefit from the launch of a B-segment SUV based on the same platform and which could replace the Ypsilon whose origins date back to 2011 but which keep a customer basis as the Ypsilon is still one of the best-selling cars in Italy today.

- Stellantis expects 350,000 annual sales of these four SUVs, including 130,000 Fiat, 110,000 Jeep, 60,000 Alfa-Romeo and 50,000 Lancia. According to the production capacity of Tichy, this production volume therefore implies the end of the Fiat 500 and Lancia Ypsilon production on this plant around 2023-2024.

    

 

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上で公開 2021年06月04日

Global sales of BEVs and PHEVs in Q1-2021

- Global sales of battery electric (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid (PHEVs) vehicles in the passenger cars category reached 1,128,003 units in the first quarter of 2021, against 460,506 units in the first quarter of 2020, a period strongly disrupted by the coronavirus. Sales have therefore more than doubled from one year to another (+ 145%). They are broken down into 758,010 sales of BEVs and 369,993 sales of PHEVs.

- By region: 491,192 units sold in China (including 406,759 BEV), 452,901 in Europe (including 202,410 BEV), 124,748 in the United States (including 98,670 BEV) and 10,976 in Japan (including 5,171 BEV). It is to be noted that China is back ahead of Europe in 2021 on this type of vehicle, whereas it had fallen behind in 2020. It is even far ahead in terms of BEV sales (twice more than Europe and four times higher than in the United States).

- In terms of brands, Tesla preserves its leading position, with 184,500 worldwide sales in the first quarter of 2021, ahead of GM-Wuling (102,574 sales) which benefits from the success of its small HongGuang EV, BMW (66,494 sales) which benefits from the generalisation of the plug-in hybrid technology in its range, while Volkswagen (59,732 sales) has not yet benefits from the launch of its ID3 and ID4. BYD (53,608 sales), Mercedes (52,145 sales) and Volvo (46,856 sales) are following. Renault (28,551 sales) moved from 7th place to 12th place, due to a clear dropout by the Zoé. Renault is even supplanted by Peugeot (28,778 sales), Great Wall (30,730 sales) and Audi (33,845 sales). Is the Renault brand the victim of a waiting phenomenon concerning the Dacia Spring?

    

 

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続きを読む... Global sales of BEVs and PHEVs in Q1-2021