After the I.D. 3 and I.D. 1, Volkswagen announces the launch of the I.D. 2
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After the I.D. 3 and I.D. 1, Volkswagen announces the launch of the I.D. 2
- After announcing the upcoming launch of the I.D. 3 (2020) and I.D. 1 (2022), the Volkswagen group announced that its B-segment electric car, i.e. the VW Polo and VW T-Cross segment, could be launched in 2023 on the MEB platform that all future electric models of the Volkswagen group will share.
- This model, which will probably be named I.D. 2, will be the third major part in the Volkswagen group's electric car line-up, enabling it to sell one million electric cars per year between 2025 and 2030, half of them in China and the other half divided between Europe and the United States.
- This new model, which will be in the manufacturer's range between the I.D. 1 (20,000 euros) and the I.D. 3 (40,000 euros) should be manufactured at the German site in Zwickau or at the German site in Emden. Its price could be around 30,000 euros.
- Unlike I.D. 1, the I.D. 2 model should also be manufactured in China, at the Anting or Foshan site, as well as at the Czech site of Mlada Boleslav, which will produce the Skoda and Seat badged versions. These two models are expected to gradually replace the current Skoda Fabia and Seat Ibiza, while being entirely electric.
- The manufacturer has not provided sales targets for these future B-segment models, but given that the Volkswagen branded model will be produced in China, it is likely that the sales volume for all three models will exceed 300,000 units per year.
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Volkswagen will present the I.D. 3 model in Frankfurt
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Volkswagen will present the I.D. 3 model in Frankfurt
- Volkswagen's first high-volume 100% electric vehicle based on the new MEB platform will be named I.D. 3, which will be presented at the next Frankfurt Motor Show and will be part of the Volkswagen Golf category (C-segment sedan), whose new generation is also expected to be presented in Frankfurt.
- The manufacturer has announced that the I.D. 3 model will be available from spring 2020 at a price of around 40,000 euros. This new model, which competes with the future Volkswagen Golf, will be manufactured at the Zwickau site (Germany), alongside other electric models of the Volkswagen group. The main markets for I.D. 3 are expected to be Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, France, the United Kingdom and Austria, the European countries that buy the most electric cars.
- With this new model, Volkswagen aims to become the leading manufacturer of electric cars in terms of sales by 2025. The manufacturer plans to sell one million electric vehicles per year between 2025 and 2030, half of which will be sold in China and the other half in Europe and the United States. In total, eighteen industrial sites around the world will gradually contribute to this objective, including thirteen in Europe, one in the United States and four in China. Eight of these production sites will be dedicated entirely to the production of models designed on the SEM platform. These are the Chattanooga plants in the United States, Emden, Hanover, Dresden, Zwickau in Germany, MladaBoleslav in the Czech Republic, Anting and Foshan in China.
- After I.D. 3, Volkswagen will launch I.D. 1 (A segment sedan), I.D. 2 (B segment sedan) and I.D. 4 (D segment sedan).
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The top 5 electric car manufacturers in the first quarter of 2019
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The top 5 electric car manufacturers in the first quarter of 2019
- In the first quarter of 2019, sales of electric cars (BEV) and plug-in hybrids (PHEV) totaled 538,774 units (compared to 304,951 units in the first quarter of 2018), an increase of 76.7% compared to the same period last year. China remains by far the leading electric vehicle market, with 271,673 sales in the first quarter of 2019, ahead of Europe (125,848 units), the United States (88,753 units) and Japan (12,500 units).
- During the same period, the top five global manufacturers selling these vehicles are, in order: BYD (71,504 sales, +150%, 13.3% SOM), Tesla (63,000 sales, +105%, 11.7% SOM), Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi (60,031 sales, +21%, 11.1% SOM), Geely Group (34,746 sales, +109%, 6.4% SOM) and BMW Group (29,208 sales, +5%, 5.4% SOM).
- It should be noted that the Volkswagen group, which wants to become the world's leading manufacturer of electric cars, is still not on the list of the top five global manufacturers in 2019, which currently cover nearly half (48%) of the global electric car market.
- It should also be noted that Tesla is losing its first place, which it acquired in 2018 (thanks to the successful launch of its Model 3), to the Chinese BYD. BYD and Geely benefited from the strong growth in sales of electric cars on the Chinese market in 2019, reaching a 121% increase in the first quarter of 2019, while sales growth in Europe did not exceed 44% and sales in the United States and Japan were stable. This is a consequence of the quotas imposed on manufacturers in China.
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Inovev forecasts 20,000 new Porsche Cayenne coupes per year
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Inovev forecasts 20,000 new Porsche Cayenne coupes per year
- The new Porsche Cayenne coupe, presented at its world premiere at the 2019 Shanghai Motor Show, could have had a different name than Cayenne, just as its competitor the BMW X6 has a different name than the X5 from which it is derived. This is why Inovev treats this new model as a model in its own right, not as a simple version of an existing model.
- The Porsche Cayenne Coupe is aimed at large SUV coupé customers, competing with such vehicles as the BMW X6, Mercedes GLE coupé and Audi Q8, or even the Lamborghini Urus or Maserati Levante.
- It is based on the MLB platform used by the standard Cayenne, but also by the Volkswagen Touareg and Audi Q8. The Cayenne coupe is equipped with the most powerful engines of the standard Cayenne’s range, namely the 3-litre V6 and 4-litre V8 petrol engines, which develop powers of 434 hp and 550 hp respectively.
- The Cayenne coupe will be manufactured at the same German site in Leipzig as the standard Cayenne (which is an E-segment SUV) and the Macan (which is a D-segment SUV). Inovev predicts 20,000 units per year of the new Porsche Cayenne coupe, compared to 70,000 units per year for the standard Cayenne.
- No electric version is currently planned for this model, while the manufacturer has announced that the next generation Macan will be available in a 100% electric version that will be built on the technical platform of the Taycan sedan presented at the next Frankfurt Motor Show in September 2019.
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The future Opel Movano will be produced at the PSA site in Gliwice
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The future Opel Movano will be produced at the PSA site in Gliwice
- While the Opel Movano, based on the Renault Master, has just been restyled, mainly on the front part of the vehicle, the PSA group has announced that its replacement, which will be launched in two years' time, in 2021, will be based on the Peugeot Boxer and Citroën Jumper (and therefore on the Fiat Ducato) and that it will be produced not at the Italian Sevelsud site in Val di Sangro (whose capacities are saturated), but at the PSA Polish site in Gliwice.
- Today, the Gliwice site manufactures a large part of the Opel Astra for the European market, but it could therefore gradually become a commercial vehicle production site, like the British Luton plant that manufactures the Opel Vivaro. This could explain why the PSA group had announced the transfer of part of the Opel Astra from the Ellesmere Port site in the United Kingdom to the German site in Rüsselsheim and not to the Polish site in Gliwice.
- Given that the PSA group announces a production capacity of 100,000 commercial vehicles per year in Gliwice from 2021, and that the Opel Movano has never exceeded 25,000 sales per year during its long career, it is likely that the PSA group intends to produce part of the Citroën Jumper and Peugeot Boxer on this site, and perhaps also a Toyota version of these large SUVs, since the Toyota SUVs already on the European market, the ProAce (segment N1-2) and ProAce City (segment N1-1) are derived from PSA models. If this scenario is verified, the Opel Astra currently manufactured at the Gliwice site would have to be transferred to another site, probably to the German site in Rüsselsheim.
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