Using this Tesla thread for some recent info on electric cars in general because of the strong effect of Tesla on the electric car market development (and the feedbacks):
After the Fiat-Chrysler merge deal with Renault failed... there is now a deal between Fiat-Chrysler and PSA (Peugeot, Citroen. Opel, Vauxhall).
To be effective in a year from now, they will be the 4th biggest car manufacturer in the world.
The scale size is helpfull for R&D cost of new electric cars
That it is not mandatory to have scale size as OEM to produce attractive electric cars is demonstrated by a small German car manufacturer e.Go in Aachen, who is producing at a price of only 16,000 Euro.
(compared with typical 22,000-28,000 Euro for similar small electric cars of the traditional OEMs)
Revolutionary in the production method is the generous use ofG5 5G at the shopfloor (smart-factory tech). And ofc it helps e.Go to be nearby so many big tier1 clusters for car components.
It will be interesting to see how fast electric cars go down to lowcost commodity. I guess we will see some big changes in the industrial car manufacturing landscape the coming 1-2 decades.
Another car landscape changer going to kick in soon is pooling of cars. Can be realised commercially, can be realised with neighborhood-village associations.
We have in NL currently 50,000 of these pool cars, being used now by 500,000 customers (or members). In ytd 2019 115,000 new users.
Most of these in urban areas: the low hanging fruit.
(as context: the total amount of cars in NL is 8.5 million on 17 million people)
To boost the change speed in rural areas (higher hanging fruit), a convenant has been finalised this week between the national and lower governments.
This should double the amount of pool cars next year to 100,000. That higher capacity to enable better, faster penetration of the market. For 2020 users should grow to 700,000.
To encourage this founding of pool centres, the national government subsidises 5,000 Euro per car, and subsidises consumer association actions. Lower government will provide parking places etc at attractive locations.
And ofc those car pools will have a mix of sizes that will push a higher amount of small cars as % of the total !!!
For a private car you have to buy a multiple purpose car, being bigger than mostly needed. When you pool... a smaller car will mostly cover your needs.
Another effect I guess will be that using a pool car will be much more the rational "I want from A to B" decision, whereas owning a car invites, tempts to buy status extra's on top (those profit makers).
I think that the combination of cheap small electric cars with a high marketshare for "A to B" poolcar users will have a big effect on the car manufacturing business.
On the total year volume of cars, on the average size of the cars, on all the gadgets of the cars.
And also on the big electric car segment
After the Fiat-Chrysler merge deal with Renault failed... there is now a deal between Fiat-Chrysler and PSA (Peugeot, Citroen. Opel, Vauxhall).
To be effective in a year from now, they will be the 4th biggest car manufacturer in the world.
The scale size is helpfull for R&D cost of new electric cars
That it is not mandatory to have scale size as OEM to produce attractive electric cars is demonstrated by a small German car manufacturer e.Go in Aachen, who is producing at a price of only 16,000 Euro.
(compared with typical 22,000-28,000 Euro for similar small electric cars of the traditional OEMs)
Revolutionary in the production method is the generous use of
It will be interesting to see how fast electric cars go down to lowcost commodity. I guess we will see some big changes in the industrial car manufacturing landscape the coming 1-2 decades.
Another car landscape changer going to kick in soon is pooling of cars. Can be realised commercially, can be realised with neighborhood-village associations.
We have in NL currently 50,000 of these pool cars, being used now by 500,000 customers (or members). In ytd 2019 115,000 new users.
Most of these in urban areas: the low hanging fruit.
(as context: the total amount of cars in NL is 8.5 million on 17 million people)
To boost the change speed in rural areas (higher hanging fruit), a convenant has been finalised this week between the national and lower governments.
This should double the amount of pool cars next year to 100,000. That higher capacity to enable better, faster penetration of the market. For 2020 users should grow to 700,000.
To encourage this founding of pool centres, the national government subsidises 5,000 Euro per car, and subsidises consumer association actions. Lower government will provide parking places etc at attractive locations.
And ofc those car pools will have a mix of sizes that will push a higher amount of small cars as % of the total !!!
For a private car you have to buy a multiple purpose car, being bigger than mostly needed. When you pool... a smaller car will mostly cover your needs.
Another effect I guess will be that using a pool car will be much more the rational "I want from A to B" decision, whereas owning a car invites, tempts to buy status extra's on top (those profit makers).
I think that the combination of cheap small electric cars with a high marketshare for "A to B" poolcar users will have a big effect on the car manufacturing business.
On the total year volume of cars, on the average size of the cars, on all the gadgets of the cars.
And also on the big electric car segment
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