Manufacturers accelerate on the electric car, a crucial date for the breakthrough set in 2025. Super-billion-dollar investments and marketing under pressure to advertise the new products coming soon. But the clientele of these cars warm for the moment of the car with the...shock.
In 2018, 4,948 electric cars (0.3% of the total) were sold in Italy, mostly absorbed by the fleets. In the first four months of the year there were 2,345 out of a total market of 714,509 registrations.
On Europe, too, there is no electricity on the three steps of the sales podium among the Top 10. So you can't even see the great Svolta with binoculars.
Toyota is ready to grant free of charge, until 2030, to manufacturers who request it, the use of their patents relating to technology for the electric car.
For the Volkswagen Group, mobility in the future passes through the electric, announcing the creation of 70 models with the...plug and a forecast of 22 million vehicles produced. The message from Thomas Ulbrich, responsible for e-mobility, is clear: "Electric for all", electric for all at competitive prices.
The intention is to make these battery-powered cars popular, with a base price starting at 18,000 euros. This will be possible thanks to the MEB platform, a technological milestone similar to the transition from the Beetle to the Golf. Moreover, with the ID technology it will be possible to recharge the battery by 80% in half an hour and also the other brands of the German galaxy, Audi, Seat and Skoda will use it. By 2030, the German Group will invest 30 billion euros in self-financing and will have eight factories in operation (4 in Germany, 2 in China, 1 in the USA and 1 in the Czech Republic).
"35 electrified models will be launched in Spain within two years among the various brands, 20 of which will be pure electric" - explained Luca de Meo (in the photo), President of Seat, adding that "the electric el-Born will arrive in the second half of the year, built on Meb platform, with a range of 420 km but in the home straight are also the Cupra Formentor SUV, plug-in hybrid and the Cupra e-Racer, 100% electric, 680 hp, racing car and the Minimò in 2021, electric quadricycle with replaceable batteries.
Bmw also bets on the electric looking towards the goal of 2025 and working on flexible platforms. The forecast is that by the end of the year, 500,000 BMW-branded electrified vehicles will be on the world's roads. At Mercedes, they are convinced that the EQC is not a new model, but the beginning of the era is dominated by batteries.
The "Ambition 2039" plan predicts that by 2030, Mercedes cars will be half the size of the and hybrid plug-in and that by 2039 the whole range will be battery-operated or hydrogen-powered.
Kia bets on total electrification for its model with the most original design, the e-Soul but also for the e-Niro both have lithium batteries and will be in the price list.for 39,600 and 42,500 euros respectively.
Ford is working on the electrification of the entire range but the first of the 16 models that will arrive in the coming months from the Fiesta and Focus EcoBoost Hybrid to the new Kuga will constitute a parade of half hybrids, hybrids and plug-in and electric hybrids. Cars for everyone, for all budgets, in line with the philosophy of founder Henry and for each model there will be at least one hybrid or electric version. The Puma will also arrive by December and in 2020 the electric SUV related to the Mustang with a range of 600 km.
Fca also looks at the electric as confirmed by the 500e electric, in California it costs less than a smartphone. In Mirafiori, production of the new electric Fiat 500 is expected to start in early 2020.
Ferrari recently presented the SF90 Stradale with an 8-cylinder 780 hp turbocharged endothermic engine, with the remaining 220 hp coming from three electric motors (in electric-only mode it can travel 25 km). Price around 500 thousand euros but only for 200 copies.
Peugeot recently raised its wings on the e-208 with a 136 hp electric motor and a 50 kWh battery with a range of 450 km: a model born in Slovakia.
But Tesla, Porsche, Opel, GM, Nissan, Renault, Jaguar-Land Rover, Honda, Geely,
Chevrolet, Hyundai, Subaru, Infiniti to remember some bet on the virtuous car. Final icing on the cake: S&P expects car sales to collapse more than expected this year both in China, Europe and the U.S., also due to the decrease in benefits tax rates for alternative vehicles such as electric vehicles.
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