Inovev expects 5,000 to 10,000 units a year from the new Toyota Mirai
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Inovev expects 5,000 to 10,000 units a year from the new Toyota Mirai
- Toyota has introduced the new generation of its hydrogen powered fuel cell car, the Mirai, which will be marketed from 2020. Launched in 2014 and commercialized from 2015, the first generation of the Mirai was sold to about 10,000 units in six years of commercial career.
- Despite this very low sales volume (3,300 annual sales on average), the manufacturer wanted to give an offspring to this model because it believes in the potential of the fuel cell vehicle. Honda (with its Clarity) and Hyundai (with its Nexo) also believe in the potential of this type of vehicle and intend to renew their offer in this area.
- Based on the TNGA platform, the new Mirai is totally new in style, with a sleeker, slimmer line coming from the recent Toyota Crown limo. 8cm longer than the old (4.97m), wider than 7cm (1.88m) and 6cm lower (1.47m), the new Mirai offers new dimensions, more conventional and more consensual than the previous one.
- The new Mirai will be produced on the Motomachi Japanese site, as previously. Inovev expects 5,000 to 10,000 annual vehicles for the period 2020-2025. The main obstacle to a significant diffusion of fuel cell vehicles is first of all their price (nearly 80,000 euros in France for a Mirai 1, the generation of hydrogen from carbonated sources, and the problem of safety relating to the storage of hydrogen.
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続きを読む... Inovev expects 5,000 to 10,000 units a year from the new Toyota Mirai
The future Turkish VW plant will produce Passat and Superb
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The future Turkish VW plant will produce Passat and Superb
- Initially, the Volkswagen group had indicated that its new plant to be built in Turkey would be dedicated to the mid-range Skoda Karoq and Seat Ateca (C segment) SUVs, and that the space made available on the Czech site in Kvasiny would be utilised by the next generation of the Volkswagen Passat which would be transferred in 2022 from the German site in Emden, where several electric vehicles of the Volkswagen group brands would be produced from 2022 onwards.
- The German manufacturer has completely revised its action plan. It will not be the Skoda Karoq and Seat Ateca that will be produced in Turkey from 2022 onwards, but the future top-of-the-range Volkswagen Passat and Skoda Superb sedans, the Passat being transferred from Emden and the Superb from Kvasiny.
- This is the first time that Turkey will produce D/E segment sedans, as this low labor cost country is used to producing small A and B segment sedans, or sometimes C segment models, in addition to commercial vehicles.
- The newly built plant will be located in Manisa, 40 km from Izmir, in southwest Turkey. This plant, which will start operating in 2022, will have a production capacity of 300,000 vehicles per year, 200,000 Passat and 100,000 Superb.
- The Czech site in Kvasiny will continue to produce Skoda Karoq, Skoda Kodiaq and Seat Ateca, which totaled more than 320,000 units in 2019, compared to 255,000 in 2018 and 155,000 in 2017, doubling the volume in two years.
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続きを読む... The future Turkish VW plant will produce Passat and Superb
The Audi 2020-2023 product plan for Europe
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The Audi 2020-2023 product plan for Europe
- The 2020-2023 Audi brand (a subsidiary of the Volkswagen group) product plan reveals a large number of restyled models but few real innovations. The investment limitation after the "dieselgate" has eliminated the launches of the A9 and SUV Q6 coupés, but the project for a SUV Q4 has been saved and it will be 100% electric.
- No models equivalent to the Volkswagen ID 1, ID 2, ID 3 and ID 4 are currently announced for 2020-2023. Instead, Audi modestly enhances its E-Tron range with the launch of a GT version and therefore the SUV Q4. As for the E-Tron itself (which was initially to be launched under the name Q6), it will be restyled in 2023.
- Maybe Audi is waiting until the following years to really get into the electric market. However, this strategy is questionable, as its competitors Mercedes and BMW have planned to launch a large number of electric models in 2020-2023. One must, therefore, be satisfied with the restyling of the internal combustion engine models (certainly modernized thanks to the use of 48V batteries that Audi identifies as mild-hybrid). The A4, A5 and SUV Q7 sedans will be restyled in 2020, the SUV Q5 in 2021, the A6, A7, A8 and SUV Q8 sedans in 2022, and finally the SUV Q3 in 2023.
- In fact, the most important new feature for the brand will be the new generation A3 sedan launched in 2020. This internal combustion engine model will be built on the MQB platform of the new VW Golf which will be launched at the same time.
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The Volkswagen 2020-2023 product plan for Europe
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The Volkswagen 2020-2023 product plan for Europe
- The Volkswagen brand's 2020-2023 product plan confirms the gradual introduction of electric cars into the manufacturer's range, since an electrically motorized model ,based on the new MEB platform, will be launched each year between 2020 and 2023. The "ID 3" C-segment sedan will be launched in 2020, the "ID 4" D-segment SUV in 2021, the "ID 1" A-segment sedan in 2022 and the "ID 2" B-segment sedan in 2023. In the VW range, the ID 3 will be positioned at the Golf level, the ID 4 at the Tiguan level, the ID 1 at the Up level (which it will replace) and the ID 2 at the Polo level.
- The ID Buzz will be added to these four models, which will be positioned on the same level as the Kombi/Multivan and Transporter as of 2022 . In all, five mass-market electric models will be manufactured at the German sites in Zwickau, Hanover and Emden. For the time being, the product plan for electric Volkswagens for China is still unknown.
- With regard to future launches of internal combustion engine cars, we can mention the new generation of the Golf marketed in 2020 (which will now have to compete with the ID 3), the new generation of the Caddy utility vehicle in 2020, which will not be available in an electric version until 2024 and the new generation of the Passat in 2022 (which will be manufactured in Turkey). It should be noted that the Touran minivan will give way to the Variosport crossover in 2021. The Sharan MPV should fade out without replacement. Finally, the Arteon, Polo and Tiguan should be restyled in 2021. The T-Roc and T-Cross are too recent to be restyled yet. The Polo is scheduled to be replaced in 2024. The Arteon will not be replaced.
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The Opel 2020-2023 product plan for Europe
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The Opel 2020-2023 product plan for Europe
- The Opel 2020-2023 product plan is now directly linked to PSA's since the French manufacturer took over the European subsidiary of the GM group in 2017. All future Opel models of this period will therefore be based on PSA platforms and will have PSA engines.
- The first model launched in 2020 will be the new generation Corsa(B segment sedan), which will share components with the Peugeot 208 marketed at the same time, as well as its CMP platform. The 100% electric Corsa will be launched immediately afterwards. The manufacturer expects 15% of Corsa's sales to come from this motorization. This model will end the career of the GM-designed Opel Ampera-e. The new generation of the Mokka (B-segment SUV) should be launched in the second half of 2020 and be produced at the Poissy site in France. A 100% electric version should be launched immediately.
- The 100% electric version of the Vivaro should be launched the same year, at the same time as the electric Peugeot Expert and Citroën Jumpy. The Grandland should be equipped with a plug-in hybrid engine, like the Peugeot 3008.
- 2021 will be the year of the restyling of the Crossland, Grandland and Insignia, but above all the year of the launch of the new generation of the Astra (C-segment sedan) based at this time on the Peugeot 308 (EMP2 platform).
- The 100% electric Combo should be launched in 2021, at the same time as the Citroën Berlingo and Peugeot Partner electric cars.
- In 2023, the new Movano will be launched and in 2024 the new Insignia (D-segment sedan).
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