Could The Seagull Be The Electric Car That Europe Needs? “The Microlino or Citroen Ami are not cars. Not everything which has 4 wheels must be a car” The Shanghai Auto Show reverberated with an impressive range of new mainly electric vehicles or plug-in hybrids of all shapes, sizes and prices. But it was a […]
Pricey Electric Cars Will Dismay Average Earners, Boost China. “In 2035 about 80% of new cars will be cheap electric ones, most made in China. 20% will be heavy and expensive European tanks” The European Union’s (EU) plan to make motorists buy expensive electric cars will force average earners to buy used vehicles, spur schemes […]
Tepid Recovery Will Ignite Fierce Competition While Electric Cars Plateau. “manufacturers will have to choose between either losing volumes with current prices or lower prices to maintain volumes, either of these being negative for earnings” Cut-throat competition will return to Europe’s car market this year as sales turn positive, while electric sales will pause for […]
EU Insistence On Electric Cars Exposes Its Auto Industry To Existential Threat. “We see BEVs from Chinese (manufacturers) accounting for one in ten of new BEV cars sold across Western Europe during 2023. This could reach 12.5% in 2030” The European Union (EU) is making sure its citizens buy electric cars but this has caught […]
Tepid Recovery Will Ignite Fierce Competition, While Electric Cars Plateau. “Supply constraints continue into 2023 as demand still outweighs supply. Our forecast assumes production bottlenecks will ease during 2023, resulting in sales growth” Cut-throat competition will return to Europe’s car market this year as sales turn positive, while electric sales will pause for breath. The […]
Small, Cheap Utilitarian Electric Cars Would Trigger Big Sales Without Subsidies. “I bought it (Audi e-tron) just over a year ago but have hated the thing almost since Day” If auto manufacturers scaled back their ambitions a bit, slashed prices, weight and battery size, and concentrated on the short-range work electric cars do best, sales […]
China Incursion Boosts Europe’s Electric Car Choices, But Problems Remain. Surprisingly, the second phase of the Chinese plan is aimed upmarket into BMW, Mercedes, Audi and Porsche territory Europe’s electric car buyers will be spoilt for choice in 2023 as domestic manufacturers introduce lots of new models and the Chinese enter in force, but don’t […]
Europe’s Electric Revolution Is Underway, But Doubters See Problems. “The ICE ban is insane, it will not contribute to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and will have a dramatic negative impact on the EU economy” The European Union has decided that by 2035 the sale of new internal combustion engines (ICE) will be banned, and […]
China’s Electric Car Assault On Europe Will Accelerate In 2023” “How will Europeans react to being offered Chinese vehicles?” Chinese electric car makers are coming to Europe in gangbuster mode, aiming to win sales from volume manufacturers like Volkswagen and Stellantis. But before BMW, Mercedes and Audi get too complacent, the onslaught will soon be […]
Model Y Aids Tesla European Chart Topping As China, Logistic Challenges Loom. “Tesla confirmed it is working on a next-gen smaller electric cars. The main focus would be on halving costs and achieving volumes higher than all other models combined” Tesla is riding high in Europe, helped by the addition of the Model Y […]
