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说明: 发表于 2022年3月15日

MG expands its European range with the 100% electric MG5 station wagon

- In 2021, the Chinese manufacturer MG (ex-British brand acquired by SAIC in 2006) sold a volume of 50,000 cars in Europe, including 30,000 in the United Kingdom, its historic market. MG is already the biggest importer of cars from China, with its ZS (100% electric), EHS (plug-in hybrid) and Marvel R (100% electric) models. Remember that the Marvel R comes from the Roewe range (the former Rover) which is part of the same Chinese group (SAIC) as MG, hence the letter R affixed to its name. MG is expanding its European range in 2022 by introducing the 100% electric MG5 station wagon to this market, currently distributed only in the United Kingdom (5,000 sales in 2021).

- The MG5 station wagon is a C-segment model, a direct competitor to the British-made Toyota Corolla station wagon. 4.60 m long, it is marketed at a price of between 32,500 and 37,000 euros, the price of a Renault Zoe.

- The new model is offered with a choice of 50 kWh or 61 kWh battery, which allows a range of 320 km or 400 km depending on the WLTP cycle, thanks to a 156 hp or 177 hp electric motor.

- According to Inovev, the MG5 station wagon could sell 10,000 copies per year in Europe from 2023.

- It is instructive to observe on the graph the periodicity of MG deliveries in Europe, a little on the Tesla model. Indeed, MG deliveries peak in March, June and September each year.

- Inovev does not see any industrial establishment of MG in Europe by 2025.

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说明: 发表于 2022年3月15日

Tesla allowed to start car production at its Berlin site

- The Californian manufacturer Tesla, which produced nearly a million electric cars last year (in the United States and China), has been authorized by the authorities of Brandenburg (Germany) to start car production at its new site in Berlin.

- This electric vehicle assembly site calibrated for 250,000 and then 500,000 units per year should have started last summer, but Tesla lacked a final building permit, which has just been validated. The manufacturer had made the bet to launch the work of its factory on the basis of provisional authorizations. It is also possible that Volkswagen, BMW and Mercedes have done their utmost to extend the deadline for Tesla to comply with the German administration, because the Californian manufacturer is their direct competitor in the field of electric vehicles.

- However, it seems that the start of the Tesla factory in Berlin is good news for the German auto industry, as the quantities manufactured here will be added to the existing quantities, especially since Tesla will export its cars all over the world. Europe (which will also relieve the Tesla factory in Fremont in the USA).

- The first models manufactured in Berlin will be the Tesla Model Y (the manufacturer thinks it will be able to sell 150,000 copies per year in the first years and then double this figure after 2025) whose demand is exploding in Europe. In 2021, Tesla sold 135,000 Model 3s and 30,000 Model Ys in Europe. The Californian manufacturer plans to manufacture a giant battery factory near the Berlin site, in order to directly supply the models produced in the assembly plant.

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说明: 发表于 2022年3月04日

Car production in Russia and Ukraine

- Russian automobile production has been relatively stable since 2014, with a volume of between 1.3 million and 1.7 million units per year, most of which is sold locally. Exports represent only a very small part of production (5% or 85,000 units in 2021) mainly intended for the former republics attached to Russia during the time of the USSR, such as Belarus, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan , Uzbekistan, Armenia and Ukraine, these six countries accounting for 90% of Russian automotive exports. Imports represent 15% of car registrations in Russia, i.e. 250,000 units in 2021, mainly from Japan, China, Germany, the USA, Mexico and Belarus, these six countries representing 80 % of automobile imports in Russia.

- The main manufacturers established in Russia are also those which sell the most in this country and those which export the most. The leader is the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi group (which owns the local brand Avtovaz) which represents 34% of the local market and 36% of the volume of cars produced in Russia, followed by the Hyundai-Kia group (23% of the Russian market and 26 % of the volume produced in Russia) and the Volkswagen group (12% of the Russian market and 11% of the volume produced in Russia).

- Ukraine, for its part, saw its production collapse in 2009 and since 2014 its production has become anecdotal. The Ukrainian automotive market (100,000 sales per year) is supplied almost entirely by imports from Europe, China, Japan and Russia. The leaders of the Ukrainian market are Renault-Nissan, Hyundai-Kia and Volkswagen, as in Russia. The physiognomy of the two markets remains quite similar.

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说明: 发表于 2022年3月10日

Car sales between Russia and Ukraine compared

- Automobile sales in Russia and Ukraine represented 1.75 million units (PC+LUV) in 2021, including 1.65 million for Russia and 100,000 for Ukraine. While Ukraine had 44 million inhabitants on December 31, 2021 and Russia 144 million inhabitants (i.e. approximately three times fewer Ukrainians than Russians), the automotive market is 16 times smaller than the Russian automotive market in 2021.

- This distortion is mainly due to the fact that GDP per capita is three times lower in Ukraine than in Russia. The motorization rate is thus 200 per 1,000 inhabitants in Ukraine against 300 per 1,000 inhabitants in Russia, i.e. 30% lower.

- This distortion also comes from the fact that Ukraine has been undergoing a latent civil war since 2014, in particular with the pro-Russian eastern provinces. A country in civil war, even latent, does not encourage the purchase of new cars. Finally, Ukraine has almost no vehicle assembly plants left, unlike Russia, which has a relatively powerful automotive industry, albeit made up mostly of locally established foreign brands.

- Ukraine therefore has to import all its new cars from abroad, which costs more for the customer than if the country had its own assembly plants. Ukraine mainly imports vehicles from four countries which account for almost half of its imports: Japan, Czech Republic, Germany and Great Britain.

- The current war in Ukraine should put a (temporary) halt to automobile sales in the country.