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AutoMotor+Sport ha avuto un consumo misto (durante una prova in luglio) di 18,8kWh con un minimo durante il giro "eco" con 13,1kWh e un massimo (statale e autostrada in modo sportivo) di 24,2kWh. Con una capacita reale della batteria di 32,4kWh e il consumo medio della prova hai una autonomia di 170Km in estate che molto probabile durante inverno con temperature sotto zero sono abbastanza meno.

...si, stessa strategia come Mercedes con la MB.EA e BMW con la "Neue Klasse".

Ultima strategia per le piattaforme in VW Group

....SOP sara circa entro un'anno.

...e la Grandspere previsto un mese dopo come concept alla IAA a Monaco

07/28/21 Wolfsburg, London, Amsterdam Consortium of Volkswagen Group, Attestor Limited and Pon Holdings B.V. to launch takeover offer for Europcar The Volkswagen Group is taking a major step forward in its NEW AUTO strategy to become a leading provider of individual mobility in the electric and fully connected age. In a consortium with London-based asset manager Attestor Limited and Dutch mobility provider Pon Holdings B.V., Volkswagen agreed to launch a recommended takeover offer for Europcar Mobility Group (“Europcar”). Europcar is the leading mobility service and rental car company in Europe with over 3,500 stations across 140+ countries and a fleet of over 350,000 vehicles in 2019, serving over 5 million customers per year. The minimum acceptance threshold for the takeover offer is 67% and existing shareholders holding 68% in Europcar have committed to accept the takeover offer. For Volkswagen, one of the world’s leading automakers and a leader in the transition to the zero-emissions future of mobility, the transaction with Europcar, a major provider of mobility services including vehicle hire and car sharing, provides a compelling opportunity to create a leading mobility platform. The consortium aims to effect a successful transformation of Europcar and deliver new and innovative mobility solutions to meet growing customer demand for services complementing car ownership, whilst managing the business with a balanced governance structure and leveraging the strengths of each consortium partner. Though Volkswagen will have a majority shareholding in the joint holding company, it will neither control the consortium nor Europcar. The proposed transaction was approved by the Supervisory Board of Volkswagen AG in an extraordinary meeting today. In an agreement with Europcar, the consortium has committed to make a recommended tender offer of €0.50 for all outstanding shares of Europcar Mobility Group SA with an increase of the offer price to €0.51 if more than 90% of the share capital and voting rights are transferred following the tender offer. The offer price represents a 27% premium to the closing price of Europcar on Euronext Paris on June 22, 2021, of €0.39, which was the last day before the consortium’s approach to Europcar became public and implies an enterprise value of €2.9bn. The takeover offer will be subject, in addition to the mandatory expectance threshold of 50.1%, to a minimum acceptance threshold of 67% and the consortium has already received irrevocable commitments from existing Europcar shareholders representing 68% of the outstanding shares to accept the takeover offer including 12.8% already held by Attestor. The transaction is subject to approval by the French Stock Market Authority (AMF) and relevant antitrust authorities. The offer is expected to be filed with the AMF by the end of the third quarter 2021 and is expected to be completed in the course of the fourth quarter 2021 or first quarter 2022. Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess: “The mobility market is changing rapidly as customers increasingly demand new and innovative on-demand mobility solutions, such as subscription and sharing models to complement car ownership. That is why we made building a leading mobility platform a key priority of our recently announced NEW AUTO strategy through 2030. Europcar provides advanced fleet management capabilities as well as a broad network of stations at major airports, railway stations and city locations and will help accelerate Volkswagen’s delivery of its ambitious mobility services targets. Together with our consortium partners Attestor and Pon, we will support the development and transformation of Europcar’s business and selectively add further services from Volkswagen Group brands.” Jan-Christoph Peters, founder and owner of Attestor: “With its strong market position, Europcar has the potential to become a leading platform for individual mobility concepts in Europe. As one of its largest shareholders, we already supported the recently completed financial restructuring of the Europcar Mobility Group. Alongside Volkswagen and Pon, we are now taking the next step helping the business to develop into a sustainably successful and innovative company positioned to lead in the fast-growing mobility sector.” (Volkswagen Group)

...direzione/modo falso di pensare - questo modello e pensato per aumentare il profitto del OEM, non per ridurre i costi per il cliente (hanno tutti in testa il Apple con i servizi della App store) 😉

Tesla expects to start Model Y production in Germany by the end of the year Crossover will get updated design and new manufacturing process, Musk tells investors Tesla expects to start limited production of the Model Y crossover at its new plant near Berlin before the end of this year despite construction delays, CEO Elon Musk told investors. The factory, Tesla's first in Europe, has run into bureaucratic roadblocks that forced the automaker to delay the production start from its original date of July. On an earnings call on Monday, Musk said that Tesla "expects to be producing the new design of the Model Y in both [Germany and Texas] in limited production later this year." Besides the plant in Gruenheide near Berlin, Tesla is also building a new factory in East Austin, Texas. Musk spoke of the "agony of a manufacturing ramp" as the company works to expand its production network, which currently comprises plants in Fremont, California and Shanghai, China. Tesla has hit a series of environmental and planning hold-ups at the German plant. Most recently, two environmental groups asked a court to force Tesla to relocate a population of endangered sand lizards that live on the site as well as some adders that prey on the lizards and are considered a threatened species. Updated Model Y Tesla has also given itself extra work by redesigning the Model Y for its Gruenheide and Texas production to include new aluminum casting for rear body structure, including the crash rails. The Model Y built in California only casts the front body structure, itself a new technique. Musk also said on the call that Tesla plans to make the battery pack for the new Model Y part of the body structure and they will feature new, larger 4680 cells. "From a physics standpoint, this is the best architecture, and from an economic standpoint it is the lowest cost way to go," Musk said. However, Musk said the company had a back-up plan to build the Model Y in Berlin and Texas with a non-structural pack and the automakers' current, smaller 2170 cells. "We still have work ahead of us before we can achieve volume production" of the 4680 cells, Musk said. In the interim, Tesla has begun exporting Chinese-built Model Ys to Europe with deliveries starting in August, the German news agency dpa reported, citing an official Tesla communication The Model Y competes against premium compact and midsize SUVs. The SUV is slightly larger than Tesla's entry-level car, the Model 3 sedan. Tesla wants to produce around 500,000 Model Y and Model 3 cars annually at the Gruenheide factory. The Model 3 was Europe's second best-selling car for the month of June with sales of 25,934, according to figures from JATO Dynamics market researchers. Uneven deliveries across the year however meant the car fell outside the top 10 for the first six months with a total of 66,864 sales. (ANE)

...come Mustang....Suv...EV.... oppure Ghibli...berlina....diesel.... 😉

...dipende dal mercato: RSQ3 Sportback ha una quota di Europa totale - 8% delle Q3 Sportback insomma con Germania - 12% UK - 22% CH - 22,6%

...in ogni caso c'e un contrato per la fornitura di motori V8, ma in quale step di potenza non lo so.

..si luci diurni..

Audi to discontinue A1 as tougher tailpipe rules hit small-car profitability The acknowledgement comes as automakers start to question their small-car strategies in response to more stringent European Union regulations on tailpipe emissions Audi will discontinue the A1 entry model as concern rises that tougher emissions standards will make small vehicles economically unviable to produce. "We won't have a successor to the A1," Audi CEO Markus Duesmann told Automotive News Europe. "We know that offering combustion engines in the smaller segments in the future will be pretty difficult because the costs will go up. Therefore, we will leave the segment." Duesmann's acknowledgement comes as automakers start to question their small-car strategies in response to more stringent European Union regulations on tailpipe emissions, in particular the output of CO2. This year the industry must reduce its fleet CO2 average to 95 grams per kilometer, down from 106.7 g/km last year, according to JATO Dynamics. The problem is that automakers struggle to get CO2 levels in their minicars and small cars to below the 95 g/km average without including some form of electrification, which adds cost in segments when margins are thin. As a result, Opel dropped its Karl and Adam minicars. In addition, Stellantis sister brands Peugeot and Citroen plan to stop making the 108 and C1 minicars, respectively, according to a report. Daimler, meanwhile, has begun the process of shifting production and development of its Smart brand to China, where the small cars will be built exclusively starting in 2022 as part of a joint venture with Zhejiang Geely Holding. (ANE)