08 Nov 2024 | Tesla Brings Back Factory Tours, Nissan Faces Loses Amid Lack Of EV Line-up and Mercedes-Benz CLA Will Be All Electric
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Tesla brings back factory tools this and places losses and made the like to be these in their line up, but dies spend to see A I is going to be electric. Stay tuned later the show tell tell White chinese, these are thing puts off north amErica despite the rest. Good morning, good afternoon.

Good evening. Where you're listening around the world. It's even news daily or trusted source of E, V information for friday, eight of november, I, Martin lee and I go through every E, D, story.

So you don't have to, but you can, if you want to see the kindness in your heart to have, look at the patron page, get your podcast, add free, along with all the other guys and girls who have joined the list of legends at pt ro n dot comms lash EV news daily. Let's start with some big breaking news from the car industry and a isan facing financial losses of a lack of evs in their line up. One of the early original adopters of evs, nian, is having to make tough choices yesterday to be fit for their electric future.

This and CEO makoto uga described the company's current situation yesterday as, and I quote, extremely tough now yesterday a to the unfair plans to cut nine thousand jobs, reduce production capacity. And so misson stake admits subic motors while part of IT anyway, as part of their crisis plan, these changes are rise as this and the third largest auto maker in japan and selling only the area EV really any numbers. And even then, and the next generation leaf is still some time away, is now struggling with falling, falling sales and profits amid st.

A lack of any compelling electric vehicles to bring to the market really well. Uh, I took over from an early believer. Any these car lost going, remember him and he has presided on a modern day.

This son, which wanted to distance itself, it's alliance part of reno, just as the french manufacturer completely dialect up their investment into EV development battery production. Now we have right now, coming with the run of four, one, nine, five new twin, go at the other end, all of the things like that, the sync on that began. And so many in their lineup and swell their old best buddy, nisson.

And I know the ownership structure was on the eve, and this son wanted to get out of that and plot their own course. Well, that's where IT ended up with. No, EV is really to speak of in the line up apart from the area which you could say is aging, I don't know about that, but you could say that needs some love.

I want to boost sales. Nan has reintroduced deal incentives on specific models. More I move previously avoided by their son because I can have adverse effects on customer trust and deal profitability.

The company started to reduce production and adjust their product line up, cutting the output of best selling models at the rogue on the frontier in the U. S. This and plans to launch merely hybrid vehicles now in the united states, with two hybrid versions of the rogue expected within the next two years.

IT did say it's working on a release of a battery powered puri v sedan in the early twenty thirteen. Well, I want to turn around for this. And they were so early with the leaf and had so much love from the E.

V. community. And that did bleed through to the area as a lot of people bought the area because they would miss.

And fans and they like, like, right? okay. So ccs, here we go.

What's next? And this didn't have an answer really, you know, company that is very important to the U. K.

Of course, one of the three places in the world and this and leave was made was the northeast of england. And thunder land, of course, in the U. S. In japan as well. IT was made. And so this sounds a very, very important company to this country and it's it's really sad for me to see the just not being at the forefront of the E. V.

Move anymore, but hopefully can turn that around the got the history and the legacy to do IT haven't or I just a quick y general motors has issued to a recall for the chevy bolt and the bolt, E, U, V. Once again, because of batteries. But hey, panic. not. It's for one hundred and seven units, but they have to do IT as a rest.

If you see the headlines around and don't read any further than that, don't worry, just one hundred and seven vehicles that neither a final fix for the similar battery issue diagnostic software is the cause of this not installed correctly on those hundred or so vehicles which monitors the battery system. And if the software were a male function, if IT were, they could result in a battery fire. So have an abundance of caution.

They bring in those vehicles back. Now let's go to romania and ford. And ford has launched a new battery assembly line. Won't read this anywhere else.

This is going to deep into the weed stuff, but is very important for the move to E V S because ford has launched a new battery assembly line in the crayon, a facility to support the production of electric vehicles. Now craver is one of the largest cities in romania. This year will start making EV versions of the ford transit korea, the ford tonio korea and the humor gena.

This initiative is part of a four hundred and fifty million eo investment announce two years ago following four acquisition of the plant. The first deliveries of these electric models will happen in spring twenty twenty five, of course, in housing ford vehicle range over here in europe. But they have had the explorer and they get free now both both based on V W S N B platform.

But of course, they have so much more to do, especially with things like the transit in the twenty o and some of the commercial vehicles, the crave a facility. And romney makes traditional versions right now of the career and the tomo and the puma basic. And half thousand people worked up going electric.

That's great news for ford over here in europe. Well, mg has surpassed tesla. Well, at least IT has down. And in the australian market, the mg four has a new record in australia, becoming the first D V.

To outsell tesla in the monthly sales scores since test that at least began reporting its figures most three years ago. Now in october twenty twenty four, M G sold one thousand four hundred and six units of the g four in australia, double the previous record, more than tripling its average as well. And IT allowed IT to exceed the tesla model y comfortably by about a third actually in australia, that Marks teslas seven straight months of decline.

What's happening to tesla in australia? Different competition. Lot of chinese vehicles that we talk about, some of the trucks, the youth as well. And I wonder what's happening there, because the vase of flourishing in aussie, well, in october last month, the tea model three came in third at a sixty four percent, and drop on the same time the previous year to show how far is form.

Yet IT was just ahead the byd at o three and the seal overall lady sales were up six percent again in australia, six up in october compared to the same month last year, indicating that shift in consumer preference towards perhaps other brands away from tesla in australia. Many people who wanted to go the early on is the same story around the world only had tesla to pick from. So of course, they went for a tesla p and and many early adopters after those cars have been own foot three, four years, think what else is out there.

And so that doesn't necessarily mean it's panic exceptions for tesla, just that some of those early adopters, they kind of moving on to try different things that the nature of the personality types of of those people conversely, the overall new vehicle market was down six percent. In australia, petrol down twelve percent. These all down nineteen percent.

It's a headline and a story that we talk about over and over and over again on this podcast. The absolute death and decline of dies l can't come quick enough. And yet if you read the mainstream headlands, you wouldn't know that when middies bans are neck in the news and middle bands are shared important details about the upcoming C.

L. A. That's the dan. Looking forward to this.

Actually, a fully electric version launching next year, built on the new M, M, A architecture, features a fully electric drive train at a two speed transmission. Which was news to me. They are doing the old tycoon thing.

okay? That's interesting. The design of the C, L, A, reflecting that at the concept C, L A, which we saw a year ago. And they say electric range of over seven hundred and fifty kilometers, that four hundred and sixty six miles, eight hundred old system on that, by the way. So that's going to be a charging beast, arrange beast.

When you look at those numbers of four hundred and sixty six miles, we can't wait to see that member say's bans are going na reduce their entry lineup entry compact car line up from seven models based on the nfa two platform down to four. And that includes the c la. Sudan, by the way, they just want to go more premium that spends and they can make more money out the s class, g class, my back g all kind of stuff, rather than it's like them.

I say his, ben's A E classes and they not as profitable and they're moving away from those in least something in the short to medium term. Now what about new terms imposed by the canadian government last month of october, the first they came in creating hurdles for the shipment of electronic v because I told you before, if you're like the new volvo ex thirty in canada in the country, they shipped a bunch of them before the beginning of october. And so if you're local dealer in canada has one snap IT up, by the way, because they won't have any the tariffs lied models like the byd at o three in the seal um Price between me forty and sixty thousand canadian and equivalent in somewhere like france with those cars are on sale that would face significant Price hikes in canada because of the one hundred percent terms.

Although smaller models like the byd c goal would be more Price competitive still, it's going to affect the sales due to these tabs and Better prospects in other markets. Byd and some of the chinese makers are shifting their focus away for now from canada in the U. S.

However, sam irani from also forecasts solutions does believe the chinese brands will continue to pursue an entry into the north american market somewhere and somehow viewing is crucial for growth. Despite the increase costs associated with imported vehicles, these manufacturers in china are determined, he says, to get some sort of foot hold in north america, likely through local assembly plants to gain market share. We're in the ford deal to license cats battery technology and forget going to make the chinese batteries.

You won't chinese owned, but but gonna license the IP. It's a ford factory. Licensing chinese technology will see if I get around in that way, or whether that gets in the brave new world that amErica is heading into for the next four years, whether that gets stopped.

Weight fields predicts that the chinese also makers will replicate the strategies of hunger and toyota, who set up assembly planes in north amErica during their expansion. He noted that world geopolitical tensions have increased. Similar chAllenges were faced by the japanese brand when they first entered canadian and U. S. Mark is back in the day, and they have become them to circumvent the tag is a byd and the other chinese companies can import vehicles from countries other than china.

Of course, until you start to add more tariffs and more tariff s, you could make them in europe, for instance, like leak, leak motorists can be doing in poland and the costs no wildly different um the rda moving a lot of IT romania to o you can import them from there. The costs very competitive until slapped. You could just put time from everybody could not use that. We're only going to buy american made cars because I would get around IT, right? Would take a break and back in the second holiday.

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Okay, welcome back to the podcast and a quick announcement. Any of my listeners in ireland, while kuper a has unveiled the new version of the old electric tava scan and more premium version and a plug in hybrid, the team a that's an event. H earlier this week at a private event in doubleton, the tasks can is built on the same platform as the V W I D five and the cota the cup.

So fifteen in high deaf touch Green apple car play android also seventy seven kills hour battery. You know, the score two oil drive, all wheel drive between two eighty five and three forty horsepower couper claims are driving range of three hundred and fifty three miles. That's five hundred and sixty eight kilometers on a single charge.

In fact, the all electric tavel can, starting at forty four thousand euros es in ireland with the plug in hybrid, the the sv, the midsize that they called the terramar h that is the same power trying as they be able to take one, for instance, at a similar car, one point five later, petrol engine, twenty killed out battery and one hundred and twenty one kilometers, or seventy five miles of all electric range. This is the new vw group plug in, a technology in really decent range on those eleven killed A C fifty thousand fast charging pricing, around forty seven thousand euros. And you can see both of those this weekend at the evo electric vehicle show on sunday.

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So be quick if you listen to this. So when he comes out on friday or satellite and have fun, well, a new incentive for chinese test bias is bringing him back the old days. And that is to have a look around the factory where they are made.

Now back in the day when they a test, there was a much, much smaller company. One of the things they did, apart from all of the influence of marketing stuff, they spent a lot of money on giving away things in cars and things like that. For people who would get the referral codes out there, was factory tools.

Now, obviously, long gum, if you want to go, look round three months back in the day, and then you were able to get in line when they are much, much smaller company. One of the ways they created super fans, if you like, that would then go away and spread the word. Now tesla has introduced a new program.

That's an old program, but it's only in china, unfortunately, and that is the chance to win at all of gig shanghai i'd love today. I mean, I would love to have a look around any modern car. E V factory. Be fascinating.

So if you are a customer in china who orders a new vehicle through the official trading program and you're all done and dusted on the deal by december third, you will go in the draw ten winner selected to have a look around bigger shanghai. They'll even put you up. I don't know what the commodation will be like.

I'm sure it's not slept on the factory floor, allah musk, but still that's very nice of them. That made three million vehicle in gig shanghai didn't quite a mile. So to get to, well, tesla, I think, is trying to win the house and minds of its swedish customers.

You know, for over a year now, theyve been in a big dog battle with the three dish unions. And in the nordic countries, the other unions have come out in support as well. The dock workers will work on tesla of vehicles and move them around the way they do the registration plates.

In sweden, I think they use the postal service and the postal of unions go. We're not touch anything to do with tesla even though the fight is actually with tests as working conditions for the maintenance and mechanically work in their service centres as a tesler has decided to open the super charging network to everyone, and that's not free charging. There was free charging on wednesday ly this week, by the way, to celebrate the large, but are opening up the network in sweden to anyone from any brand.

So earlier this week, the official charging account on x announced that the super charges in sweden now viable, all of them. So you going to look on the map on I, is this a tesla? Only one or non tesla? All of them in sweden can be used by anybody. The netherlands s was the first one to do that after the pilot programs over here. I'd love IT if if tesla U K.

Did that, this still is more than a handful, but you can be, you don't know of toppy head and as you use them regularly, that super charges station open or is IT tesla only IT would be much easier for my tiny brain if all of the ones were open. But of course, they pick, choose teslas permitted other brands to use their super charges in south korea and the us, of course. But specific locations.

Sweden has a very high adoption rate over here in europe, sixty percent market share for new vehicles going all E V. Second in norway, which is up around ninety four and ninety six percent depending on which months you look at. Now a previous guest of this podcast, arch aviation, at that, based on how the california are preparing to launch their air taxes, the company is finalized to deal for a hundred of their electronic co.

Called the midnight japanese partnership between japan airlines and sumitomo CoOperation. They intend to use the aircraft in cities with traffic congestion. So is this going to work? Electric vertical takeoff and landing. E veto the mid. My aircraft can Carry four passengers under pilot and their luggage a range of one hundred miles or hundred and sixty kilometers, and is designed for short trips already near twenty to fifty miles. Now, when I spoke to watch, they were talking about how this open to everybody.

And I said, yes, but surely if you are a bit like the private jet industry, if you are a higher earner and you are a business that can write this off, and you want to get from one side of california to another, one side of new york to another, surely you start with the big ticket punters. The big the customers will pay a very high amount for the convenience. Like, well, yes, of course, you know it's not going to be as cheap as on day one as IT will be in tenise time.

But point to point transport very quiet as well as you can fly over those areas, which otherwise would be limited if you weren't using electric power at one hundred and fifty miles an hour, if you just tilt reuters vertical, take off and landing like a helicopter, but forward flie like an airplane. Other details, companies are working on getting full F A, A approval. They're not flying cars, by the way, flying cars.

That's not the thing that x are. These are essentially electric helicopters, but which until their reuters and fly forwards and have a degree of error genomic lift, I guess i'd put IT that weight. They still produce some noise.

Companies like job aviation, voicemail, ter beats technologies are nearing the launch of their services as well. All right, quick update on key pricing in the USA. The twenty twenty five narrow E V I write this vehicle so highly comes to the single battery size in the us.

Sixty four point eight killers hour apa children and fifty three miles of range. The wind is thirty nine thousand six hundred, and the wave is forty four thousand six hundred. Standard rare seat belt pretension ers, now you got the larger ten point two five inch instrument cluster and the narrow E V.

Wave trim. That's the bigger one has the blind spot collision at the ten way powers front passengers sit the head up display home link on the review mirror. This look is a really well spect.

Not the biggest, but I I really write the arrow evy exceptionally highly. It's got to china catl, the world's biggest make R V V batteries, is ramming up their solid state battery development. The company aims to begin small scale development of pure solid ed state.

Battery y is not senny solid state, but twenty twenty seven, the date in mind, supported by going to get investments in R N D and a thousand people working on IT. Now cats research focuses on the sulfide route, which shows promise for all of state batteries. They want to achieve an energy density of five hundred, what hours per kilogram, which may mean nothing to you.

Let me add context. It's a forty percent improvement on the typical or best in class litham ion battery that's out there at the moments. However, further enforcements are needed for battery longevity, which is was holding them back in germany, the evy charging network is experiencing rapid growth.

In july twenty twenty four, the number of charging points was now up to one hundred and forty six thousand in germany, according to the video that's including ac charging as well. There's approximate seventeen point three pure BBS or black in hybrids per charging station. If you want to use that metric, an improvement from twenty one vehicles per station.

But again, depends on what kind of station is. You can't lamp them all together. Dc fast charge is different to destination charging is different to people who charge almost entirely themselves overnight in their driveway or outside their house for some reason.

So you don't know what's the split h, what's the breakdown? Where are the charges? How are they distributed? What's the power? So the big numbers, interesting, but you was one.

I will get more granular on that to fully understand IT well live. Why is the electric motor's cle division of highly Davidson and theyve announced plans for a new electric magica scooter. The maxi scooter ters are kind of larger than what you think a little school to a little vest school.

And maxi scooters, a larger, more powerful know. You sort of sit back a little bit more, but they ask that a school tubb more comfortable long distance rides, even on the highway as well. A big a frame, larger whales, more storage.

Now the s 2 aro initially launched with the live wie s to del mar。 That power train will be put into these new maxi scooters launching in the first half of twenty twenty six. And finally, and not they on aptera, I can't make my mind up and up, but I don't know enough about them.

That's the the solar car, and they're testing their first solar electric vehicle. They'd around forever. They were here, then they went, then they came back many years later, and they still around theyll asking for money.

They don't and you like, of course you will. Of course you will. Are you all high and middle is in prison.

Now, however, aptera don't ring those bells for me. I've interviewed the the two rounds before, and they seem like the hearts in the right place. They genuinely seem like they don't seem they're on the take as in just raise in money and spending.

And I have a bit more please. They seem well, I don't know them personally, but they seem like they trying to do the right thing. But now they've come back and said we need a bit more money.

Last month, they showcase their first production intent vehicle live in, making this this up there forever, which included parts that may feature in their solar EV lineup. Theyve raise one hundred and thirty five million from seventeen thousand individual investors to be crowd funding, but now they want another sixty million. They tried to pursue crowd funding to work with U.

S. Capital global and to manage the convert notes. They say since july, but they're only eighty four hundred thousand of the sixty million they need has been raised from that particular initiative. So the funding target is essential, they say, for obtaining production equipment and tools needed to fulfill l as customer orders.

The seventeen thousand in smaller investors that put the money in to raise one hundred and thirty five million, I think, well under the impression that was the money needed to get their vehicle. Now they need another sixty million. If you find any down the back of the sofa, you know where to call and not broadcast for that.

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Derek Riley from nevo dot I E the nevo E V of the island youtube channel keeps growing its amazing. And across the show is this weekend. If you go along, have a fun time. I looked to us, elect, reverse a global public charging, made simple, which one up and one map, have a good cinema and and remember, there's no such thing as a self charging hybrid.

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