The DS Product Plan for 2021-2026
The DS brand (Stellantis group) has communicated its product plan until 2026. Used to be the only Premium brand of the PSA group, DS has seen now other brands enter its market following the merger with FCA (Fiat-Chrysler), such as Alfa-Romeo or Lancia.

The main challenge for DS will therefore be to clearly differentiate itself from these two Italian brands which have joined the Stellantis group. Alfa-Romeo is more oriented "sporty" (as BMW) while Lancia will target more luxury (as Mercedes). From 2024, all DS models that will go into production will be 100% electric.

The current renewal program is focused on the imminent launch (fall 2021) of the DS 4 which will be in the carmaker's range between the DS 3 Crossback(B-segment B) and the DS 7 Crossback(C-segment). This model will be available in a 100% electric version from 2024.

In 2022, the DS 7 Crossback(C-segment) will be facelifted, one year before the facelift of the DS 3 Crossback.

In 2023, the new STLA Medium platforms will appear, which will be launched by the new generations of the Peugeot 3008 and 5008. It is therefore on these platforms that the future DS 7 Crossback and DS 8 Crossback will be designed. These two top-of-the-range models will be launched in 2025 and 2026 respectively, with a 100% electric engine.

2026 should also see the renewal of the DS 3 Crossbackand the launch of a C-segment coupe SUV inspired by the Aero Sport Lounge concept car. A seven-seater SUV (code P95) is also under consideration. These three vehicles will adopt a 100% electric motorisation.


    
 

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The Renault Product Plan for 2021-2025
Renault group has communicated its product plan until 2025 for Europe and for the brands Alpine, Dacia, Renault (therefore excluding Lada). In 2021, Dacia will facelift its Duster before its replacement in 2024. Renault will offer the same hybrid version on the Captur as on the Clio. But it is above all the launch of the Mégane V that will be the most important event for the brand this year, with the added bonus of the 100% electric version of the Mégane V (named Megane e-Tech).

In 2022, Dacia will renew its Lodgy and Renault its Kadjar. The same year, the Renault Clio will be facelifted.

In 2023, the new generation of the Renault Koléos will be unveiled, which will be actually a seven-seats version of the Kadjar. The same year, Renault will launch a 100% electric SUV which to take over the Scenic MPV, which will be discontinued at the same time.

In 2024, Dacia will renew its Duster and Renault its Master utility (N1-3 segment). This year will also see the launch of a coupe version of the Kadjar, which will have to be positioned cleverly regarding the Arkana, which is positioned in a very same market.

But the year 2024 will special, due to the launch of the Zoé replacement, in this case the “Five”, which will be a reinterpretation of the old Renault 5 of the 70s, but with a 100% electric motorisation. Finally, a 100% electric Alpine sedan could be launched that year.

In 2025, it will be the turn of a 100% electric Alpine SUV, while Dacia will launch its Bigster (a seven seats SUV) and Renault the replacement of the Twingo, namely the “Fourwhich will be a reinterpretation of the old Renault 4. from the 60s, but with a 100% electric motorisation.


    
 

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Inovev forecasts 50,000 units per year of the new Genesis GV60

The Genesis brand, a premium subsidiary of Hyundai-Kia group, like Lexus for Toyota or Infiniti for Nissan, presented the fifth model in its range, after the G70, GV70, G80, GV80 and G90. The GV60 (C-segment) is located below the GV70 (D-segment) and GV80 (E-segment). It is therefore an SUV in the terminology of the carmaker.


The sedans are named G70 (D segment), G80 (E segment) and G90 (F segment). What is missing today is a C-segment sedan that could be called G60 and be in the same segment as the Lexus CT.


Unlike the brand's other models, the Genesis GV60 SUV is powered by an electric motor. This is Genesis’s first all-electric model and arguably not the last. It is based on the E-GMP platform used in particular by the recent Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Kia EV6, and which will be used on all future 100% electric models of the Korean group. The GV60's battery is expected to provide between 450 km and 500 km of range according to the WLTP cycle.


But the aesthetics of the Genesis GV60 stand out sharply from that of its cousins Hyundai and Kia, as if the group that owns the three brands wanted to give each of them a specific style.


The Genesis GV60 will be produced in South Korea alongside the GV70 and GV80 at the Asan site. Inovev expects 50,000 annual sales of this model which will be in a way the premium version of the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Kia EV6. Sales forecasts for the Ioniq 5 and EV6 had been set by Inovev at 75,000 units per year for each of these two models. 



    
 

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Renault changes partner in China
The Renault group set a partnership with Dongfeng in the 2010s to produce and sell vehicles in China. This choice was pushed by the fact that Dongfeng was the principal partner of Nissan, Renault's partner in the Renault-Nissan Alliance. What had worked so well with Nissan in China could also be repeated with Renault, but the Chinese sales of Renault never really took off. In 2020, 1,133,000 Nissan were sold in China while Renault sales did not exceed 5,500 units (compared to 20,000 in 2019, 50,000 in 2018 and 72,000 in 2017).

Suddenly, Renault had considered leaving the Chinese market, but like PSA (now Stellantis), the French carmaker decided to stay in China but to find a new local partner. It was finally with Geely, the first independent Chinese carmaker, that the agreement was reached.

Geely is a large group which owns the Volvo, Polestar, Lynk & Co, Proton, Lotus and LEVC brands. It is also a Daimler partner in the future Smart made in China project.

Without being involved again in the future Smart project, Renault could design and market hybrid and electric vehicles jointly under the Geely and Renault brands. Remaining the case of the Dacia Spring which is still assembled at Dongfeng plant and also the case of the Ezoom Yi sedan which we should discover in Europe in the coming months (under the Mobilize brand). Renault's strategy in China therefore seems to be questionable today without being redefined with precision.


    
 

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Inovev plans 100,000 units per year of the new Kia EV4
First appearing in 2008, the Kia Soul was a small MPV available with gasoline and diesel engines. When it was renewed in 2014, the Kia Soul was still available in gasoline and diesel engines, but the carmaker added a 100% electric version, presented two years after the Renault Zoe, which in 2012 opened up the European electric market. This version only represented a small portion of Soul sales at the time.

The third generation of the Kia Soul launched in 2018 abandons the diesel engine but retains the gasoline and electric engines. The latter takes an increasingly important place in the range, so that the versions exported to Europe are gradually becoming predominantly 100% electric.

The Kia EV4, which will succeed to the Soul in 2022, will only be 100% electric model. It is in the Kia range under the EV6, presented in recent months. Taking the body style of the Soul, it is now a 4.30 m long SUV (10 cm longer than the Soul) competing with the Mercedes EQA, Audi Q4 and Volvo C40. Based on the E-GMP platform used across the full range of all-electric Kias known as EV, the EV4 will be the shortest of the proposals on this platform, as future EV5, EV6 and EV7 models launched next year will be larger. The battery capacity is available in two versions: 58 kWh and 77.5 kWh.

Inovev expects a sales volume of 100,000 units per year of the Kia EV4 to be produced in South Korea, like all Kia EVs. It would be the best-selling of all the Kia Evs.


    
 

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