Four new SUVs will be produced at the Melfi plant
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Four new SUVs will be produced at the Melfi plant
- The Stellantis group has just communicated on its results for the first half of 2022, which shows a real distortion between global sales down 16% over the period (3.02 million vehicles) and a profit up 34% compared to the first half of 2021. Sales of electric vehicles thus jumped 50% year-on-year to reach 136,000 units in the first half of 2022. But North America remains the most profitable region with the increase in sales of large pick-ups. up Dodge Ram and SUV Jeep which together represent more than one million units in the first half of 2022.
- The carmaker also communicated on the future manufacturing program of its Italian plant in Melfi. Currently, this site manufactures the Fiat 500 X, Jeep Renegade and Jeep Compass SUVs. But these models are at the end of their life.
- From 2024, the plant will host the production of four new 100% electric SUVs based on the new STLA Medium (or e-VMP) platform which will be inaugurated in 2023 on the new generation of the Peugeot 3008 SUV.
- The four future models manufactured on the Melfi site have not been precisely identified, but they could be future DS, Opel, Lancia D-segment SUVs: Future DS 9 (D85) in 2024 and derivative model at Opel (O85), then future DS 7 (D84) in 2026 and derived model at Lancia (L84). For its part, the Jeep brand will gradually abandon the Renegade and Compass at the end of their life to focus on the Avenger model which will be unveiled this fall and which will be manufactured in Tichy, Poland.
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Inovev forecasts 100,000 units per year of the new Jeep Avenger
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Inovev forecasts 100,000 units per year of the new Jeep Avenger
- The Stellantis plants in Tichy (Poland) and in Melfi (Italy) will be transformed over the next two years to focus on the manufacture of electric cars, which has not been the case until now. The Fiat 500 which is currently manufactured in Tichy, is equipped with a thermal engine, the one with an electric motor being produced on the Mirafiori site in Italy. The Tichy site has lost a lot in production volume since the transfer of the Fiat Panda from the Tichy site to the Italian site of Pomigliano in 2012 and since the end of production of the Ford Ka in 2016. In 2022, the site of Tichy will only produce 155,000 end-of-life cars (Fiat 500s and Lancia Ypsilons). Succession will go through the new Jeep Avenger SUV and its Alfa-Romeo and Lancia derivatives.
- The new Jeep Avenger which has just been unveiled (and which takes the name of an old 1970 Hillman rebadged Chrysler in 1976 and Talbot in 1979) will be launched in 2023, on the e-CMP platform of the Peugeot e-2008, Opel e-Mokka and DS3 Crossback E-Tense.
- It will therefore be shorter than the Renegade (4.10 m instead of 4.23 m) and will be the brand's first model to be equipped with a 100% electric engine and battery (the same as that of the 2008 and Mokka) which will allow a range of 400 km according to the WLTP cycle. It will also be offered in a petrol version, borrowing the 1.2-litre 3-cylinder fitted to the 2008 and Mokka.
- The Jeep Avenger will also be the brand's first model to be marketed only in Europe and not in the United States. Inovev forecasts 100,000 annual sales of the Jeep Avenger.
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The influence of 100% electric on sales of the Citroën Berlingo, Opel Combo and Peugeot Partner
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The influence of 100% electric on sales of the Citroën Berlingo, Opel Combo and Peugeot Partner
- The Stellantis group decided last fall to market the "passenger car" versions of the Citroën Berlingo, Opel Combo and Peugeot Partner only in a 100% electric engine. What was the consequence of this radical decision in terms of sales of these vehicles in Europe?
- We observe that the monthly sales volume which reached 3,000 to 7,000 units before this decision (first half of 2021) i.e. 5,000 units per month on average or 60,000 per year divided into 25,000 units at Citroën, 25,000 at Peugeot and 10,000 at Opel, fell to 2,000 units per month on average in the second half of 2021 and the first half of 2022, which represents a drop of 60% compared to the first half of 2021.
- The decision to market these models only in the battery electric version therefore reduced the sales of these models by more than half, thus following the example of the Smart which, when they were available only in the electric version, saw their distribution reduced by more than half.
- This may also indicate (by extension) that if carmakers decide to no longer market their thermal engine models, a market drop of more than 50% could be expected at long term. Hoppefully, the deadline proposed by the European Commission is the year 2035, which will allow a large segment of customers to be able to gradually switch from thermal cars to electric cars. However, a market decline between 2030 and 2035 cannot be ruled out.
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Opel abandons plans to return to China
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Opel abandons plans to return to China
- The German firm Opel, which was acquired from the GM group (with its British branch Vauxhall) by the PSA group in 2017, was integrated into the Stellantis group at the time of the merger between PSA and FCA in 2021. Due to its past membership of the GM group, Opel has never been able to develop on markets outside Europe because of the preference given to the Chevrolet brand on these markets. Worse, Opel had to follow Chevrolet's withdrawal strategy in Russia and Ukraine. In short, Opel concentrated its sales and production on the European continent exclusively.
- Within the PSA group, which bought it in 2017, Opel continued to focus on the European market, especially in Germany and England where the brand (and its subsidiary Vauxhall) had always achieved its best sales (half of its sales).
- The situation became more difficult from 2021, the date of the PSA merger with FCA, where Opel found itself in the same market segment as Fiat. The strategy of the Stellantis group then consisted of repositioning the Opel brand between Fiat and Peugeot, by a slight move upmarket and repositioning Fiat in the entry-level category with Citroën.
- This new positioning had prompted Opel's management to consider marketing its models in China, the world's leading automotive market, but given the difficulties encountered by the Stellantis group in this market (the manufacturer has just stopped sales of Jeep ), the lack of notoriety of the Opel brand in China, the German brand preferred to abandon its project and consider establishing itself in other markets.
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Launch of future Chrysler models in the NAFTA zone 2022-2026
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Launch of future Chrysler models in the NAFTA zone 2022-2026
- By 2026, Chrysler (part of Stellantis) will launch several new models in the North American market. Other models will be redesigned or restyled. It is in 2024 that the carmaker will introduce the most new features.
- Chrysler: For the Chrysler brand, only the Airflow, an all-electric crossover model, has been announced for 2025.
- Dodge: The new Hornet GT model is planned for 2022 and a plug-in version of the Hornet R/T model for the first half of 2023. Two new electric models, the Charger Daytona and the Challenger, will be launched in 2024.
- Jeep: The brand will release the Wagoneer L and Grand Wagoneer L models in 2022. In 2024, the new Recon, Wagoneer S models, as well as Wagoneer or Grand Wagoneer 4xe will be launched. It is possible that the Cherokee will be redesigned in 2025 and the Renegade in 2026.
- Ram: The year 2023 will see the launch of the ProMaster, based on the Fiat Doblo, and the year 2024 that of the Ram 1500.
- Even though Chrysler releases 11 more models than its competitor Ford, it is still behind the GM group, which will release 25 new models by 2026. This can also be explained by the fact that after the year 2024, during of which many new Chrysler models will be launched, only one model has been announced for 2025, the Chrysler Airflow, and that there will, at present, only be redesigned models in 2026.
- The carmaker will therefore release 5 electric vehicles, 5 thermal vehicles and a plug-in hybrid (PHEV) by 2025.
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