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发表于 2021年6月24日

• Production
• Ford
• Romania

Ford will produce an electric light utility vehicle in Craiova (Romania) from 2024

- The American carmaker Ford has announced that it will produce a 100% electric light commercial vehicle at its Romanian plant in Craiova from 2024. It will be preceded in 2023 by its combustion engine version (probably diesel) which will succeed to the Transit Connect van whose origins date back to 2003 for the first generation and 2013 for the second generation. Actually, every ten years, the Transit Connect is renewed, and the future generation will be available for the first time in thermal and electric engines.

- Today, the Craiova plant assembles B-segment SUVs - Ecosport (end of life) and Puma - while Transit Connect is produced today at Ford's Spanish plant, in Valencia. It was initially planned to transfer the production of Transit Connect from Spain to the United States which is one of its biggest markets, but ultimately the transfer of production to Romania was chosen. This Romanian plant has a production capacity of 200,000 vehicles per year.

- The Romanian Craiova plant will be Ford's third European site to produce a 100% electric vehicle, following the carmaker’s announcement to produce electric vehicles in Cologne (Germany) and Kocaeli (Turkey) plants.

- Ford, however, is still far from the production capacities of Volkswagen, which intends to turn Zwickau, Dresden and Martorell into plants capable of producing several hundred thousand electric vehicles each year. In addition, Volkswagen has just announced the construction of a third electric vehicle plant in China, after those in Anting and Foshan, this time located in Anhui province.

    

 

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发表于 2021年6月04日

• Registrations

The level of sales is not directly related to the price of Brent

- Inovev wanted to know if the evolution of the price of Brent oil affects the evolution of auto sales. Used as a standard for setting the price of crude in the stock markets of much of the world, Brent is a good benchmark for the price of oil. The price of Brent obviously has an impact on the price of fuel (gasoline and diesel) even if it tends to smooth out the sharp rises and falls in Brent.

- Inovev compared the official Brent price established annually from 2000 through 2020 against sales of passenger cars in Europe. When we observe the two curves representing these two parameters, we realize that the price of Brent does not have a direct impact on auto sales, even if we take into account the fact that the price of fuel is smoothed compared to the price of Brent.

- We can simply observe that the increase in the price of Brent between 2010 and 2014 coincides with a drop in auto sales, but that it started in 2008, at the beginning of the financial crisis. However, the increase in the price of Brent between 2003 and 2007 did not trigger a decline in sales. On the other hand, the fall of the Brent price between 2015 and 2016 coincides with an increase in sales, but this had started in 2014 and continued until 2019, while the price of Brent had risen between 2016 and 2018. Finally, the price of Brent fell in 2020 as the auto market collapsed.

- There is therefore no direct link between the price of Brent and car sales in Europe. The evolution of the automotive market is impacted at short term by definitively other parameters.

    

 

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发表于 2021年6月24日

• Production
• Ford
• Americas
• USA

Ford launches its 100% electric "Lightning" F-Series pickup

- Like Tesla and its competitors GM and Stellantis, the American carmake Ford wishes to accelerate and amplify its strategy in the market for 100% electric vehicles, in Europe, China and the United States.

- After the launch of the Mustang Mach E last year, which shows a first step in this market, the carmaker has unveiled its F-150 Series pickup for the first time available with a 100% electric drive. It is to be noted that the F-150 is the lightest and most compact version of all the F Series versions.

- Ford also announced the upcoming launch of a 100% electric version of its US-produced Transit utility van.

- Ford expects 40% of its models sold worldwide in 2030 to be powered by plug-in hybrid or 100% electric powertrains. This could represent a volume of 1.5 million units by that time. However, Ford produced just 37,500 such vehicles in 2020, representing 0.9% of its global production last year.

    

 

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发表于 2021年6月04日

• Production
• Daimler AG
• Germany

Inovev forecasts 5,000 units per year of the Mercedes EQS

- Mercedes has unveiled its all-electric F-segment sedan, the EQS, which could be considered as the electric counterpart of the S-Class, but the model is completely different from the S-Class. Indeed, its six-side-window body features a very tapered line, while the S-Class is a classic sedan with four side windows. In terms of dimensions, the EQS is slightly longer, being 5.22 m long compared to 5.21 m for the S-Class.

- The EQS is positioned at the top off the Mercedes EQ range (battery electric vehicle), which until now, was composed of the EQA (C segment), EQB (C segment), EQC (D segment) and EQV (minivan).

- Two versions will be marketed at the launch: EQS 450 and EQS 580, equivalent to two different battery powers (90 kWh and 108 kWh), combined with electric motors delivering a power of 330 hp and 524 hp respectively. These batteries take place under the car between the front and rear tracks on a new platform. Mercedes has confirmed the upcoming launch of an even more powerful AMG version that will deliver 750 hp. According to the carmaker, the autonomy of the Mercedes EQS would be 770 km in the most powerful version.

- Inovev forecasts 5,000 EQS produced per year at the German plant of Sindelfingen, alongside the Mercedes S-Class and E-Class. This quantity represents almost 10% of the S-Class production. It is very rare that the electric versions are less Expensive than their thermal counterparts, the prices of the Mercedes EQS are however lower than those of the S-Class.

    

 

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