Nissan Avila plant will stop utility vehicle production in 2019
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Nissan Avila plant will stop utility vehicle production in 2019
- Nissan (a subsidiary of the Renault-Nissan Group) is currently producing the Nissan NT400 / 500 (formerly Cabstar) and Renault Maxity at its Spanish plant in Avila, at a rate of 15,000 to 20,000 units per year.
- The NT400 and NT500 are sold throughout Europe by the Nissan network, while the Renault Maxity is sold through the Volvo Trucks subsidiary Renault Trucks in the same region.
- The Volvo Trucks Group produces and markets trucks and buses under the Volvo Trucks, Renault Trucks, Mack Trucks and UD truck brands. This group is one of the top two in the world, with the Daimler Group.
- In 2016, less than 19,000 units (NT400 / 500 and Maxity) came off Avila assembly lines.
- Given the low production volume of these models and, according to Renault-Nissan analysis, the high level of investment needed to bring them into line with future heavy vehicles standards Renault-Nissan prefers to abandon production of this type of vehicles to focus on their core commercial vehicle business: LUVs for Nissan and trucks for Renault Trucks.
- The Avila plant will therefore cease this activity in September 2019, to become a body spare parts production facility.
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PSA will increase production capacity at Trnava factory
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PSA will increase production capacity at Trnava factory
- In view of the success of the new generation of the Citroën C3 (54,000 sales in the first quarter of 2017, compared with 37,000 sales in the first quarter of 2016 for the old generation), PSA group decided to increase the capacity of its Slovak plant at Trnava where this model is produced (alongside the Peugeot 208). At this rate, more than 200,000 Citroën C3 will be sold for the whole of 2017, to which will be added 150,000 Peugeot 208 scheduled this year in this plant, that is to say more than 350,000 vehicles in total. However, the Trnava plant now only has 300,000 vehicles capacity per year.
- The planned transfer of 70,000 Peugeot 208s in 2017 and 2018 from the Trnava to Poissy plant will not be enough to compensate for the additional volumes for the Citroën C3. PSA will therefore have to increase these capacities from 300,000 to 350,000 vehicles a year in 2017 and then to 400,000 vehicles per year in 2019 when the new generation of the Peugeot 208 will appear. The new installed capacity will meet the demand for Citroën C3 and Peugeot 208, ideally 200,000 units a year for each of the two models, but which can be modulated should there be a lesser success of one model compared to the other.
- The Trnava site will thus be the biggest plant in Slovakia in 2020, with that of Bratislava (VW Group).
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Japanese market for battery electric vehicles (BEV) and plug-in hybrids (PHEV) in 2016
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Japanese market for battery electric vehicles (BEV) and plug-in hybrids (PHEV) in 2016
- In 2016, the market for rechargeable electric and hybrid vehicles in Japan was 22,500 units (compared with 23,000 units in 2015 and 20,000 units in 2014), making Japan the fourth largest market in rechargeable electric and hybrid vehicles behind China (507,000), Europe (223,000) and the United States (159,000).
- The Japanese market for rechargeable electric and hybrid vehicles remained stable in 2016, while the Japanese market for all engines fell by 1.5% last year.
- Of these 22,500 units, the electric vehicle market alone totals 16,500 units while the market for plug-in hybrid vehicles account for 6,000 units (mainly Mitsubishi Outlander).
- In 2016, Nissan dominated this market, with 15,750 sales, ahead of Mitsubishi (5,883 sales), with other brands not exceeding 500 units in total. Nissan sells only 100% electric models (Leaf, NV200e) while Mitsubishi sells both plug-in hybrid models (Outlander) and battery electric models (i-Mievs, Mincab and Minitruck).
- The market is extremely concentrated: only two models exceed 1,000 sales in 2016: Nissan Leaf (14,793 sales) and Mitsubishi Outlander (5,459 sales). These two models account for 90% of sales of battery electric vehicles (BEV) and plug-in hybrids vehicles (PHEV) in Japan. But the PHEV Toyota Prius is arriving on the market soon.
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US hybrid vehicles market (HEV) in 2016
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US hybrid vehicles market (HEV) in 2016
- While the US market for electric vehicles (BEV) and plug-in hybrids (PHEV) has increased significantly since 2012, their market for non-rechargeable hybrids (HEVs) has evolved in the opposite direction, from 500,000 units in 2013, to less than 350,000 units in 2016.
- There are two reasons for this:
1. Part of the clientele is shifting from non-rechargeable hybrid models to plug-In hybrid or battery electric models, where the product range is growing faster than that of hybrids.
2. Some customers of non-rechargeable hybrid models are going back to thermal models (gasoline), following the fall in the price of oil which favored the sales of thermal vehicles, notably SUVs and pick-ups.
- However, this 3 year decline, of the US market for non-rechargeable hybrids should be reversed, thanks to the arrival of new products (notably the new Toyota Prius and the Hyundai Ioniq and Kia Niro).
- Toyota dominates the US market for non-rechargeable hybrids, with 243,940 sales (215,879 Toyota and 28,061 Lexus) in 2016 out of a total of 347,029 units (representing a 70% market share).
- Toyota thus places five models in the Top 10; the Prius (market leader) alone accounts for 134,000 units, or 39% of the total market for non-rechargeable hybrids in the US.
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US market for battery electric vehicles (BEV) and plug-in hybrids (PHEV) in 2016
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US market for battery electric vehicles (BEV) and plug-in hybrids (PHEV) in 2016
- In 2016, the market for battery electric vehicles (BEV) and plug-in hybrids vehicles (PHEV) in the United States was 159,000 units (compared with 115,000 units in 2015 and 105,000 units in 2014), making the United States the third largest market in the world for electric and rechargeable hybrid vehicles, behind China (507,000) and Europe (223,000).
- The US market for battery electric vehicles (BEV) and plug-in hybrids vehicles (PHEV) increased by 38% compared to 2015, mainly thanks to Tesla, which began marketing its second model (Model X) in early 2016. Of these 159,000 units, the market for 100% electric vehicles was 87,000 units whereas the market for plug-in hybrid vehicles accounted for 72,000 units.
- The Tesla brand dominates this market, with 46,750 sales, ahead of Chevrolet (28,353), Ford (24,796), BMW (16,107), Nissan (14,006), Fiat (5,330) and Audi (4,280). These seven brands alone account for almost 90% of the sales of electric and rechargeable hybrid vehicles in the US. By group, Tesla remains leader, ahead of GM (28,887) and Ford (24,796).
- The ten best selling models are: Tesla Model S (29,121 sales), Chevrolet Volt (24,739), Tesla Model X (17,629), Ford Fusion PHEV (15,938), Nissan Leaf Max PHEV (7,957), BMW i3 (7,625), BMW X5 PHEV (5,995), Fiat 500e (5,330) and Audi A3 PHEV (4,280). These ten models accounted for 83% of the sales of electric and hybrid rechargeable vehicles in the US.
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