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pdj-france · 2 years ago

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JLR recrute 300 nouveaux techniciens alors qu'il accélère la production de Range Rover et fait avancer le développement futur des véhicules électriques dans le cadre d'un investissement de 15 milliards de livres sterling sur cinq ans. La campagne de recrutement de la société basée dans les Midlands, anciennement dénommée Jaguar Land Rover, comprend des postes dans ses installations de Gaydon, Whitley et Solihull. À l'usine de Solihull, 100 de ces rôles seront des techniciens de maintenance qui exploiteront et entretiendront près de 700 robots dans la nouvelle usine de production de carrosserie automatisée de 130 millions de livres sterling de la marque. Le nouvel atelier de carrosserie augmentera de 30 % la production des Range Rover et Range Rover Sport. Ces 100 techniciens seront aussi formés pour travailler sur un nouveau système de production de carrosserie de 70 millions de livres sterling qui sera utilisé pour aider à fonder le nouveau Range Rover électrique. LIRE LA SUITE : Adrian Mardell prouve qu'il est l'homme qui fera revivre JLR L'avenir sera au centre des préoccupations des 200 autres nouvelles recrues - un mélange de techniciens et d'ingénieurs de test. Basés au centre d'ingénierie de Gaydon et à l'usine de groupe motopropulseur de Whitley, ils travailleront sur les tests et le développement des véhicules électriques de nouvelle génération de JLR. Ces véhicules électriques commenceront par le Range Rover électrique fin 2024 – les précommandes ouvriront plus tard cette année – suivis d'un trio de Jaguar électriques «à couper le souffle», dont le premier sera un 4 portes à destination de 2025. GT. Les deux seront construits à Solihull, qui, avec l'usine de moteurs de Wolverhampton et l'usine de Halewood, seront transformés pour produire des véhicules électriques dans le cadre de cet investissement de 15 milliards de livres sterling.

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newscheckz · 4 years ago

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Is it worth buying a diesel Land Rover?

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Is it worth buying a diesel Land Rover?

SHOULD I BUY A DIESEL LAND ROVER? There’s a lot of confusion surrounding diesel, so Newscheckz is here to answer your questions and find the right car for you.

If you’re asking “should I buy a diesel Land Rover?” you have to think about the type of journey you usually do.

If you’re a regular commuter, racking up big miles on the motorway, or towing a caravan or horsebox, then a diesel Land Rover is probably the best choice for you.

If you mainly drive short distances you should consider petrol, electric or hybrid Land Rovers. Making the right choice will mean it’s cheaper for you. A new Euro 6 diesel engine could be better for you if you do more than 12,000 miles (19,000km) a year because, depending on the types of journeys you make, it may be more economical and environmentally friendly than a petrol car.

A car is not ideal on short journeys because it might not be fully efficient. The diesel particulate filter (DPF) doesn’t get hot enough, which means it can’t clean the particles it’s collected. This means the filter can clog up and reduce the car’s power. Read more about DPF filters.

The newest Euro 6 diesel engines are the cleanest ever and all of ours comply with the very latest Euro 6 standards which means you can drive our cars anywhere in Europe. Read more about Euro 6 emissions standards.

Can I drive my diesel into a low-emission zone?

You can drive any diesel built after 1 September 2015 into any low-emission zone without being charged.

However, older diesel cars may be charged and even banned altogether from some city centres.

There are more than 200 low-emission zones in cities across Europe. Here’s what you need to know about the two most significant ones:

LONDON: Petrol or diesel cars registered before 2006 that meet the Euro 4 NOx standards have to pay a Toxicity Charge, also known as T-Charge in London.

This means an additional £10 fee each time you enter the current Congestion Charge zone. On 1 April 2019, the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) replaced the T-Charge with stricter rules, meaning those not driving a Euro 6 diesel car or a Euro 4 petrol car will have to pay an extra £12.50 to travel through parts of London.

There are plans by the Mayor of London to extend this zone as far as the North and South Circular roads in 2020

PARIS: If your petrol or diesel car was registered before 1997, you won’t be allowed to drive it into the city between 8am and 8pm on weekdays.

Newer vehicles are rated on their emissions and given one of six coloured windscreen stickers that grant access to the city.

The lower the emissions, the more rewards you gain including access to better parking spaces.

Other UK cities are planning to introduce their own low emission zones, with Birmingham, Leeds, Southampton, Manchester and Bristol proposing to have similar zones in place in the next couple of years.

Will diesel Land Rovers be banned?

In Europe, the authorities in Paris, Madrid, Rome and Athens plan to ban diesel cars and vans by 2025.

A landmark ruling in Germany empowered Düsseldorf and Stuttgart to ban the heaviest polluting vehicles without needing approval from central government.

So is diesel on the way out? Not for the time being, but it will be phased out. For example the UK government is aiming to end the sale of new diesel and petrol cars by 2040.

Will I get taxed more for having a diesel Land Rover?

In the UK, the amount of Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) depends on the carbon dioxide emissions produced by the car.

In the first year it ranges from £10 for 1-50g/km to £2,000 for those emitting more than 255g/km.

From the second year onwards, every owner will pay an annual flat rate of £140 on cars costing less than £40,000 and £310 on cars over £40,000.

Older cars will still be taxed according to the previous tax bands, which means older diesel cars with carbon dioxide emissions of 99g/km still won’t pay any VED. New diesel cars emit 15% less CO2 than petrol.

In the UK there is also a diesel ‘supplement’ of 4 per cent for Company Car Tax for vehicles not yet meeting the RDE2 (2020 regulation), or a one tax band increase for VED. Vehicles which meet RDE2 early are exempt from this.

Vehicle tax in Europe varies. Germany taxes at €2 per gram of carbon dioxide over 95g/km, plus an additional €2 for petrol or €9.50 for diesel based on the car’s engine capacity per 100cc.

In France, any car that emits more than 120g/km of carbon dioxide is taxed. Owners purchasing a car that produces 120g/km charged €50 up to those producing 185g/km or more charged €10,500.

Italy bases its vehicle tax on power of the engine plus the Euro emission standard, with each region able to adjust the rate independently.

For cars over 185kW of power, each kilowatt over will incur an additional €20 charge – this rate is reduced at 5, 10 and 15-year intervals.

What other costs are there with diesel Land Rovers?

When it comes to running a new diesel car, it’s worth noting the relatively small cost of topping up the AdBlue, which is also known as Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) in your car.

AdBlue/DEF is a liquid injected into the exhaust gas to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions.

When the AdBlue/DEF is blended with the hot gas, it provides the right chemistry for a final catalytic converter to turn NOx into nitrogen and water (both naturally present in the air), which is more environmentally friendly.

If you own a Land Rover, your car will automatically tell you when you need a top-up of AdBlue.

On the car’s display it will say the DEF is at a level where a top-up is advised. After this, a second message will appear with an amber icon and it will advise you to refill the DEF tank, and how many litres to add.

The third message starts a countdown of the distance remaining until the DEF tank is empty. Once it’s empty, the vehicle won’t start.

Depending on your service plan, you might be able to get a free top-up of DEF/AdBlue from your retailer.

If you’re not on a service plan, you can either pay £29.99 at your local retailer or buy it from a car parts retailer and refill it yourself.

How polluting are diesel cars?

New Euro 6 diesel cars are much cleaner than ever before because of the Euro standards. Since 1992 the European Union has been tightening up vehicle emissions to reduce carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons and particulate matter.

From Euro 1 through to the current Euro 6 (EU6d), targets have continually lowered, with each car manufactured and sold today prohibited to exceed 0.08g/km of nitrogen oxide, compared to the maximum limits of 0.18g/km in 2011 (a reduction of 56 per cent) and 0.97g/km in 1993.

All Land rover cars are fitted with a diesel particulate filter which captures 99 per cent of all particulates.

This means emissions from new diesel Land Rovers are comparable to petrol for emissions, but with around 15 per cent lower CO2 emissions and about 25 per cent better fuel consumption than their petrol equivalents, making them cheaper to run.

The new diesel cars will also, for example, be able to drive through London’s Ultra-Low Emission Zone, due in April 2019.

What’s going to happen to diesel Land Rovers?

Now that new diesel technology is so advanced it has about 25% better fuel consumption and around 15 per cent less CO2 compared to petrol, it can be argued new Euro 6 diesel has the same life expectancy as petrol.

Land Rover’s latest Euro 6 engines are amongst the cleanest in the world and meet the new regulated laboratory and real world tests (WLTP and RDE).

New diesel and petrol will be the most cost-effective choices for some time while the electric infrastructure is being built around the world.

Jaguar Land Rover’s future is electric. From 2020, every new Land Rover will have the option of electrification.

Alongside our plans for electrification, we continue to invest to refine and improve our new diesel and petrol engines.

This is because in the medium term, petrol or new diesel will remain the right choice for many people, and these engines are needed for a smooth transition to an electrified future.

There are also further improvements to traditional petrol and new diesel engines with the introduction of mild hybrid (MHEV) technology. You can read more about MHEV in the new Range Rover Evoque here.

There is also an option of a plug-in hybrid (PHEV) for the Range Rover and Range Rover Sport.

A PHEV combines a conventional engine with an electric motor and a battery. A PHEV is charged from an external power supply and, using regenerative braking, selects and blends the engine and electric motor to deliver optimum performance and efficiency.

Is it worth buying a diesel Land Rover?

To answer the question ‘is it worth buying a diesel car?’ you need to think about what kind of journeys you do.

If you do more than 12,000 miles a year, it’s worth thinking about diesel. It could be more cost effective and less polluting than getting a petrol car.

Will diesel have a life over the next few years?

Yes. Although we are committed to an electric future, new diesel and petrol are necessary for many motorists around the world until the infrastructure is there to support electrification.

When it comes to pollution, every new diesel Land Rover meets or exceeds EU6 requirements.

Jaguar Land Rover will continue to make new diesels even more technologically advanced and even cleaner.

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onwheelsxyz-blog · 6 years ago

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No electric Range Rover Evoque planned, PHEV instead An electric Range Rover Evoque won’t arrive to the line-up before 2025, as the brand focuses its efforts on hybrid technology in the mid-term. Jaguar Land Rover UK boss Rawdon Glover said that while “there will be a market for a small to medium-sized electric SUV”, it will not arrive before the next generation of its entry-level Range Rover. The second-generation Evoque launched earlier this year, seven years after the compact SUV was born, and thanks to a new platform, now accommodates mild hybrids as well as a plug-in hybrid. However, Autocar understands the platform can not accommodate a fully electric drivetrain, and so new architecture would need to be implemented for a third-generation model to house such a set-up. The PHEV, due in 12 months’ time, will be powered by a 197bhp three-cylinder 1.5-litre petrol engine paired with a 107bhp electric motor. Glover described the Evoque PHEV as “fleet game-changer” for Land Rover and predicts it will make up more than a third of UK Evoque sales when it arrives early next year. Land Rover believes plug-in hybrid technology is a sensible middle ground for the Evoque, opposed to a fully electric variant, having seen success with the Range Rover and Range Rover Sport plug-in hybrids launched in 2017. Within the M25, one in two of those models sold are plug-in hybrid. Broader electric plans for Land Rover are unconfirmed, but an electric version of the flagship Range Rover is expected in under five

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presssorg · 6 years ago

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Electrics, compacts and SUVs share stage at Geneva auto show

Electrics, compacts and SUVs share stage at Geneva auto show FRANKFURT — Carmakers are hoping to give consumers a glimpse of the future at this year’s Geneva auto show as they roll out new electric cars and try to re-energize an industry facing serious challenges on several fronts. The Geneva International Motor Show is taking place against a background of slowing sales in China, the world’s biggest auto market. A potentially chaotic departure by Britain from the European Union and the U.S.-China trade dispute could mean further trouble. And add to those the looming disruption from new technologies such as autonomous driving and smartphone-based services that offer use of a car without ownership, as well as regulatory pressure to add more zero-emissions vehicles. In both cases, automakers are sinking billions in investment into areas that don’t yet bring them big sales volumes and profits. The show opens to journalists on Tuesday and Wednesday and to the public from Thursday through March 17. Here’s a look at the major themes of the show. —— GOING ELECTRIC Although scarce on the road today, battery-driven cars headed for the market in the months and years ahead will be much in evidence at the show.

One reason: Tough new limits on emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas blamed for global warming, take effect in the European Union from 2021, and get even tougher in 2025 and 2030. Carmakers originally bet on diesels, which are more efficient than gasoline engines, to help them cut average emissions. But diesel sales plummeted in the wake of Volkswagen’s 2015 scandal over cars with software that let them cheat on emissions tests. Analysts say more electric sales will have to fill the gap. Yet that raises its own questions, not least consumer reluctance to buy electrics because of higher prices and concerns about the limited range and lack of places to charge them. Honda will be showing a compact electric vehicle prototype while Volvo Car Group’s Polestar brand will show off the Polestar 2, a battery-driven compact vehicle that advertises 500 kilometres of range under the European range test (275 miles under the different U.S. standard) and is intended to compete with the Tesla Model 3. Audi will present its A6, A7, A8 and Q5 vehicles in hybrid versions, which combine battery and internal combustion propulsion. Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz has the concept EQV, a battery-powered van. —— TRADE WOES Troubles in the global economy are hanging over the show, not least uncertainty about the outcome of U.S.-China trade talks. Without a deal, U.S. President Donald Trump could add new import taxes that could slow the Chinese economy and global trade. Trump has also threatened to impose import duties on autos that could hit European producers hard.

Britain could wind up leaving the EU on March 29 without a negotiated deal to smooth the transition, leading to sudden tariffs that could disrupt the auto industries’ complex supply chains. Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, director of the Center for Automotive Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen, says that Britain is only 2.8 per cent of global sales, meaning “exaggerated fears on the demand side are not so realistic.” For carmakers with production located in Britain, however — such as Jaguar Land Rover, BMW, Ford, Nissan and PSA Group — Brexit could make things significantly more difficult. Honda has said it will close a plant in England, although the company says Brexit isn’t the reason. Global auto sales fell to 83.7 million last year from 84.8 million in 2017. Dudenhoeffer’s centre foresees a further slide to 81.9 million this year. —— Bestsellers While displaying the electric cars coming to market in coming months and years, automakers are also offering plenty of what consumers buy most now: less climate-friendly SUVs and the small cars that remain a mainstay in Europe. Sport utility vehicles sell well and can earn strong profits for manufacturers. Volkswagen Group’s Skoda will show off the Kamiq crossover SUV with 95, 115 and 150 horsepower gasoline engines as well as a four-cylinder diesel version. Mercedes-Benz has an updated version of the GLC, an SUV loaded with driver assistance systems. Automakers haven’t forgotten small gasoline-powered cars, which remain a bread and butter sales category in Europe’s crowded cities. Renault has a new version of its Clio compact, and Peugeot offers a second-generation version of its 208. —— BRING MONEY Geneva tends to be a place for high-end automakers such as McLaren, Ferrari, Lamborghini and Aston Martin to show off gorgeous rides with prices starting at hundreds of thousands of dollars.

This year is no exception: Volkswagen Group’s Lamborghini displays the convertible Huracan EVO Spyder, a sleek, low-slung machine that goes from 0-100 kph (0-62 mph) in 3.1 seconds and reaches a top speed of 325 kph (202 mph). Suggested retail prices start at 202,437 euros in Europe and $287,400 in the U.S., not including tax. Published at Sun, 03 Mar 2019 13:25:52 +0000 Read the full article

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livioacerbo · 7 years ago

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Jaguar Will Make an Electric Version of Every Car Its Sells by 2020—And Might Make an Electric E-Type

Apologies to Elon, but the world has a new ruler when it comes to combining electric propulsion with beauty. Because this week, Jaguar Land Rover unveiled the E-type Zero, a battery-powered revival of the classic 1960s sports car that none other than Enzo Ferrari called the most beautiful car ever.

The sad news is that the car—which carries a 40-kWh battery pack [[[think we can lose this bit, since it won't be something the average reader would be able to compare to other batteries?]]], offers a range of 170 miles, and goes from a standstill to 60 mph in 5.5 seconds—is just a concept, rendering those specs meaningless. Jag says it will “investigate bringing this concept to market,” but whatever it decides, it’s guilty of a bait and switch here.

For the automaker (and, ahem, the journalist), the shiver-inducing thought of an electric historical classic offers a tidy segue into news of Jaguar Land Rover’s future: The automaker also announced this week that by 2020, it will offer an electric or hybrid variant of every model it makes. The shift will start next year, when the Jaguar’s first fully electric SUV, the I-Pace, goes on sale.

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Unlike Volvo, which revealed a similar electric plan in July, Jaguar Land Rover is just expanding its offerings—not phasing out gasoline- and diesel-powered cars. And like Volvo, the British outfit isn’t actually taking a bold or crazy risk on fledgling technology. It’s ensuring it has a place in the future.

“It seems almost inevitable,” says Karl Brauer, an auto industry analyst at Kelley Blue Book, that automakers like Jaguar Land Rover will offer many more electric and hybrid choices in the future. And it's important to note that Jaguar’s self-assigned prophecy covers fully electric cars, plug-in hybrids, and “mild hybrids,” which use batteries to supplement the engine—so it's not exactly aping Tesla. The cost of battery tech is steadily dropping, and Brauer compares hybridization to fuel injection. “It went from being an exotic form of tech to being cost-saving.” Before long, he predicts, “every car will have some level of hybridization.”

Meanwhile, governments around the world are ratcheting up both fuel efficiency standards (where hybrid tech helps) and requirements that automakers produce zero-emission vehicles. Even if the Trump Administration is looking to roll back rules in the US, regulators elsewhere, especially in Europe and Asia, have the clout to sway automakers. The UK and France plan to ban the sale of gas and diesel cars by 2040; Norway wants to do it in 2025. China has set electric car benchmarks so extreme, automakers complain they’re impossible to reach.

So it’s only logical for Jaguar Land Rover to ensure its customers don’t have to turn to a competitor like Tesla to buy a swanky car they’ll be allowed to drive in their home country. And the automaker’s wealthy clientele certainly help here. In the US, the average Jaguar sells for nearly $55,000, the average Land Rover for more than $70,000. If batteries—the main driver of costs in electric driving—raise the price of their sports car a few hundred or thousand dollars to the price, they probably won't worry. Especially if that sports car is a 21st century E-type.

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eliteluxuryrentalss · 5 years ago

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Billionaire Li Shufu creates China’s first Global Carmaker with Geely Volvo merger of Engine Production units

With a net worth of $13.2 billion, Li Shufu, is a Chinese billionaire businessman, and the chairman of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. Ltd. and Volvo Cars.

Chinese billionaire Li Shufu, owner of Geely Automobile, the second largest private automobile manufacturer in China is in talks to merge their engine operations with Swedish car maker Volvo Cars AB, in essence creating China’s first global auto maker.

Li’s global ambitions for Chinese automotive manufacturing goes back as early as 2010 when Geely first bought Volvo from Ford for $1.8 billion and then followed up with a slew of other high profile automotive acquisitions by adding Lotus Cars and a $9 billion stake in Daimler AG to his portfolio and since Jan 2020, announced his intentions on either taking a slice of Aston Martin or having the whole cake.

Billionaire Li Shufu creates China’s First Global Carmaker with Geely Volvo merger of Engine Production units

Volvo languished during the first decade of the aughts as Ford consolidated its US holdings and positions, divesting itself of Land Rover and Jaguar, and leaving Volvo with minimal resources and scant investment. Incidentally, Land Rover and Jaguar flourished after their divestiture, a combination of new design language first initiated by Ford and the willingness of Tata, the new owner to take a hands-off approach in letting veteran executives of both brands run the show.

Li’s track record deal closing and successful management of new business units like Lotus, puts Geely in clear leadership as China’s, if not Asia’s leading carmaker with a balanced consumer portfolio straddling all key segments. Geely Holding Group’s kicked the British brand into high gear in 2019, two years after it acquired a majority stake, by announcing plans to start producing the British sports car brand in China for the first time with the opening of a new 9 billion yuan ($1.3 billion) factory in Wuhan city. While Lotus would still be building supercars out of its Norfolk facility, a joint Geely – Lotus statement revealed that a key part of the firm’s strategy was “to revive the brand by expanding the brand’s manufacturing footprint globally” by targeting new markets by building higher-volume models in China.

Germany-based automotive manufacturer, Daimler, is set to develop its next generation of Smart electric cars in China following a joint venture with Geely. Under the agreement, the next generation of Smart cars are set to be assembled at a Chinese plant, with sales expected to begin in 2022.

The recent Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, now named COVID-19, appears to have put pause to Li’s expansion and acquisition plans. Just before the CCP’s lockdown of the city, shares of British luxury carmaker Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings Plc declined last month on Friday 17 January 2020, with insiders commenting that there’s “waning interest” from Li, the rumoured potential Chinese investor to buy a stake.

What Volvo Stands to Gain from Geely

The automotive industry is facing a massive disruption with most of the major car brands, even those previously sworn to the “roaring soundtracks of petroleum engines” as makers move towards electrification, and autonomous vehicles in an environment where ride-sharing, car-hailing apps and increasing peer-to-peer car sharing has been slowing demand for car purchases.

Volvo aims to reach Tesla Motors’ current level of EV sales from a standing start in just five years. Due to the high cost of electric car batteries making it more difficult for automakers to develop affordable zero-emission vehicles, it has led to a number of them forming alliances with Chinese partners.

Volvo’s merging of engine operations with Geely is a vital step in the brand’s roadmap for shifting to a fully-electrified lineup from a costs-of-production perspective, freeing up resources for the Swedish brand to focus on electric platforms in-house. According to Volvo Chief Executive Officer Hakan Samuelsson, combined business units would supply two million diesel and gasoline-powered engines, versus the 600,000 Volvo produces today.

London based business data provider IHS Markit forecasted electric car growth from 2% to 12% of new cars by 2030. Volvo has medium term objectives of achieving half of its global sales fully electric by 2025. In pursing combined engine production, Volvo gets to pursue in house development of electric gear-trains without sacrificing crucial revenue from existing petrochemical engines vehicles.

Volvo Cars and Geely already share technology, most notably the Compact Modular Architecture (CMA), which is being used by Volvo Cars for its soon-to-be-announced smaller range of 40 series cars and by LYNK & CO.

In the meantime, with Geely, Volvo gains greater access to the largest car market in the world. Concordantly, Volvo’s stellar reputation for safety gets associated with Geely, a major talking and selling point considering that “Made in China” has not had the best reputation, allaying US consumer fears of Chinese-made automobiles.

Volvo managed to sell over 355,000 vehicles globally in the first half of 2019, a 2.5% gain over last year with the China market leading the biggest gains of 15.7% up 37,855 units from 32,712 during the same period in 2018. It will start production next year of the brand’s first fully electric car, a battery-powered XC40 compact crossover.

Hollywood icon Arnold Schwarzenegger was first to own a modified Humvee, pushing for a civilian model which he was amongst the first customers to order.

Li Shufu’s “hidden” objectives and Global Ambitions

Earlier in January 2020, billionaire Li discussed “working together with international partners” to “seize the technological commanding point through collaboration and sharing”, during preliminary discussions about investments in Aston Martin, it would appear that part of his global automotive strategy is the know-how and technology which could benefit his entire portfolio and not just Geely.

That said, Li’s acquisition strategy has been proving the most successful so far, other Chinese carmakers have attempted similar strategies to mixed results – Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery is still struggling with former US commercial sensation, Humvee. The H1 Humvee was a military grade vehicle which first rolled out for civilian markets in 1992 at the behest of Hollywood actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, buying a highly modified sand-coloured edition, before pushing for a consumer model. At its height, it sold 70,000 Hummers, becoming a symbol of wealth and excess but as gas prices spiked to all time highs between 2007 and 2009, the popularity of the car declined.

Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation, the largest automaker in China, invested $600 million in bankrupt Korean automaker Ssangyong, before giving up in 2010, abandoning management rights over the carmaker, which was suffering from a serious liquidity crisis. A 70% share of SsangYong was acquired by Indian multinational automotive company Mahindra & Mahindra in February 2011. More recently, Beijing Automotive Group bought a 5% stake in Daimler in July 2019 and is considering lifting its holding in the Mercedes-Benz maker to as much as 9.9%.

With Li Shufu’s waning interest in Aston Martin, Bloomberg reported that Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll is emerging as the frontrunner to buy a stake in British manufacturer.

Geely launched Lynk & Co, a new luxury SUV aiming to tap the global market for ride-sharing and car-hailing services while taking on giants including Volkswagen AG and BMW AG.

Volvo announced that the merging of business operations to form a new supplier will not see any job cuts – the new unit will employ approximately 3,000 Volvo workers and 5,000 from Geely, across all departments including procurement, information technology and finance, typically the first departments cuts since these resources can be shared.

Li also owns 49.9% of Malaysian automaker Proton but his vision is to ultimately transform the conglomerate into a provider of transport services. Geely has developed and has plans to further expand car-sharing services while investing in alternative public transport options – VoloCity’s flying taxis and China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp’s own in-house high-speed trains. Ultimately, Geely might just become a global transport solutions provider instead of just a carmaker.

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mikemortgage · 6 years ago

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Electrics, compacts and SUVs share stage at Geneva auto show

FRANKFURT — Carmakers are hoping to give consumers a glimpse of the future at this year’s Geneva auto show as they roll out new electric cars and try to re-energize an industry facing serious challenges on several fronts.

The Geneva International Motor Show is taking place against a background of slowing sales in China, the world’s biggest auto market. A potentially chaotic departure by Britain from the European Union and the U.S.-China trade dispute could mean further trouble.

And add to those the looming disruption from new technologies such as autonomous driving and smartphone-based services that offer use of a car without ownership, as well as regulatory pressure to add more zero-emissions vehicles. In both cases, automakers are sinking billions in investment into areas that don’t yet bring them big sales volumes and profits.

The show opens to journalists on Tuesday and Wednesday and to the public from Thursday through March 17. Here’s a look at the major themes of the show.

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GOING ELECTRIC

Although scarce on the road today, battery-driven cars headed for the market in the months and years ahead will be much in evidence at the show.

Honda will be showing a compact electric vehicle prototype while Volvo Car Group’s Polestar brand will show off the Polestar 2, a battery-driven compact vehicle that advertises 500 kilometres of range under the European range test (275 miles under the different U.S. standard) and is intended to compete with the Tesla Model 3. Audi will present its A6, A7, A8 and Q5 vehicles in hybrid versions, which combine battery and internal combustion propulsion. Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz has the concept EQV, a battery-powered van.

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TRADE WOES

Troubles in the global economy are hanging over the show, not least uncertainty about the outcome of U.S.-China trade talks. Without a deal, U.S. President Donald Trump could add new import taxes that could slow the Chinese economy and global trade. Trump has also threatened to impose import duties on autos that could hit European producers hard.

Britain could wind up leaving the EU on March 29 without a negotiated deal to smooth the transition, leading to sudden tariffs that could disrupt the auto industries’ complex supply chains.

Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, director of the Center for Automotive Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen, says that Britain is only 2.8 per cent of global sales, meaning “exaggerated fears on the demand side are not so realistic.” For carmakers with production located in Britain, however — such as Jaguar Land Rover, BMW, Ford, Nissan and PSA Group — Brexit could make things significantly more difficult. Honda has said it will close a plant in England, although the company says Brexit isn’t the reason.

Global auto sales fell to 83.7 million last year from 84.8 million in 2017. Dudenhoeffer’s centre foresees a further slide to 81.9 million this year.

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While displaying the electric cars coming to market in coming months and years, automakers are also offering plenty of what consumers buy most now: less climate-friendly SUVs and the small cars that remain a mainstay in Europe.

Sport utility vehicles sell well and can earn strong profits for manufacturers. Volkswagen Group’s Skoda will show off the Kamiq crossover SUV with 95, 115 and 150 horsepower gasoline engines as well as a four-cylinder diesel version. Mercedes-Benz has an updated version of the GLC, an SUV loaded with driver assistance systems.

Automakers haven’t forgotten small gasoline-powered cars, which remain a bread and butter sales category in Europe’s crowded cities. Renault has a new version of its Clio compact, and Peugeot offers a second-generation version of its 208.

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Geneva tends to be a place for high-end automakers such as McLaren, Ferrari, Lamborghini and Aston Martin to show off gorgeous rides with prices starting at hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Jaguar confirms its new J-Pace SUV will be Defender-based 2018 Jaguar F-Pace Diesel R-Sport Jaguar has confirmed its developing a new SUV, the J-Pace, whichll share a platform with the next-generation Land Rover Range Rover and Range Rover Sport.The new platform is called MLA, and will debut underpinning the highly anticipated redesigned Land Rover Defender before making its way into most of Jaguar Land Rovers (JLR) models.Since the new Defender is expected sometime around 2021, we should see prototypes for the J-Pace soon.A timeline hasnt been shared, but judges involved in the World Car of the Year Awards program were given an early look at the truck. They were also given an update on the next-generation F-Type, as well as a look at the new electric XJ and an XE replacement.The mid-sized SUV will compete with the Audi Q7, BMW X5 and Mercedes-Benz GLE, and will feature third-row seats. The biggest benefit of the MLA platform is the ability to support hybrid and fuel-cell powertrains, which should future-proof the car.An all-electric variant is also likely to debut, to fall in line with JLRs prediction that 20 per cent of car sales will be electric by 2025. Since the J-Pace will be built on a Range Rover platform, we can expect it will perform pretty well off-road, although we dont expect owners to actually leave the pavement. No matter, however; being a Jag, it is likely to be more suited for the beaten path rather than off it.More SUVs will likely be coming from Jaguar, too, thanks to the success of the Ian

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thegloober · 6 years ago

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Jaguar Wants To Take On Tesla With A Fully Electric Lineup By 2030

The I-Pace was just the jumping off point.

Everyone wants to take on Tesla, it seems… or maybe certain companies just see the benefit of electric motors over internal combustion engines. Whatever the case, Jaguar might be the latest in a laundry list of brands to do so. Following the initial success of the I-Pace, the British marque could switch to a fully electric lineup in as little as 10 years.

As first reported by Autocar, Jaguar might phase out all of its internal combustion engines in the next five to ten years in place of a fully electric lineup instead. Alongside the I-Pace, the outdated XJ will also be replaced with an electric offering, and the XE and XF could be replaced with similarly sized crossovers to compete with the all-electric Audi E-Tron.

The Jaguar EVs Are Coming:

In an separate interview, design boss Ian Callum said that the new electric XJ will be a big step up from the current model – not just in terms of powertrain options, but also looks. “The design has to signify the message of a sports car. It’s not just a three-box sedan. It’s something people wanna get into and drive. And that has to be a message of its shape,” he said.

The E-Pace and F-Pace might make room for a brand-new I-Pace in 2025, and the mid-engined J-Pace supercar – which should show up sometime in 2022 – won’t stick around for long. Jaguar will likely kill off the hybrid car in 2027, leaving only electric vehicles in its lineup moving forward.

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With four or five fully electric models in its lineup by the late 2020’s, Jaguar could sell up to 300,000 vehicles per year, according to the report. The switch to full EVs could also affect Land Rover, which will shift most of its pure gas engines to 48-volt hybrid systems similar to what is already available in the Range Rover Sport P400e.

Even with all the information provided in this very in-depth timeline, plans could change between now and the next two decades. Factors like sales – or lack thereof – could ultimately decide Jaguar’s fully electric future.

Source: Autocar

Gallery: 2019 Jaguar I-Pace: First Drive

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Jaguar Land Rover, Britain’s largest automaker, has begun testing the first of its driverless cars on public roadways. As of right now, the vehicles will be confined to the streets of Coventry in England, but the company is hopeful that it will be able to expand its operations soon.

The vehicles are based on Jaguar’s Range Rover Sport. Most driverless cars go pretty heavy on the hardware, but Jaguar’s model is a bit more subtle. It features sensors on the bumpers, and a roof rack on top of the car. To ensure the safety of other drivers and pedestrians, a human driver is always behind the wheel, in case intervention is required.

Jaguar has said that it plans to continue these tests throughout 2018 while its engineers work on refining and improving the underlying technology. A release date for these cars has not been announced, but Jaguar is hopeful that driverless cars will be a reality within the next decade.

“Jaguar Land Rover is proud to be a leader in collaborative research projects for autonomous and connected cars,” said Jaguar’s Nick Rogers. “We are supporting innovative research that will be integral to the infrastructure, technology and legal landscape needed to make intelligent, self-driving vehicles a reality within the next decade.”

British politicians are committed to making the transition to driverless cars as easy as possible hoping to benefit from a market which is estimated to be worth $1.2 trillion by 2025.

Jaguar is hardly the only company seeking to create driverless cars, of course. Numerous major auto manufacturer and tech company has begun work on driverless cars. Alphabet’s Waymo has teamed up with ride-sharing service Lyft and has been in talks with traditonal auto-makers. Not to be outdone by its rivals, Uber has begun work on its own fleet of self-driving cars.

While much of the news around self-driving cars has focused on tech companies, it’s important to keep in mind that this is still about producing cars and a recent study indicates that Detroit, not Silicon Valley, is leading the way. This makes sense when you consider the fact that its easier for companies like Ford to adopt self-driving technology than it is for Alphabet or Uber to produce thousands of cars.

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Jaguar Land Rover’s Future

Jaguar Land Rover is on a roll. The patience of parent company Tata Motors — and its willingness to invest in new product — means the two British luxury brands are healthier than ever. Land Rover, riding the global boom in SUV sales, is setting the pace and making the lion’s share of JLR’s profits right now. Jaguar, a latecomer to the SUV party with its new F-Pace, is playing catch-up as it moves away from relying on increasingly unfashionable sedans and niche-market sports cars. But both face near-term challenges.

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The all-electric I-Pace SUV due for 2018 is pitched as another turnaround car for Jaguar, though a much riskier one than the F-Pace. The brand’s first zero-emission vehicle marks a bold approach, and the learning curve ahead is steep, with issues such as scalability, battery life, charge time, performance characteristics, cooling, and packaging to be resolved.

Among the EV engineering solutions JLR developed with researchers at Coventry University are front and rear motors that are concentric with the drive shafts and deliver a total system output of 400 horsepower. Battery life is 186,000 miles — at least 800 charge cycles — and if one of the 36 cells or modules in the under-floor battery pack has a problem, it can be accessed easily via service panels.

Loosely based on the F-Pace’s aluminum-intensive D7a architecture, the I-Pace will be built by Magna Steyr in Graz, Austria. The initial production target is 15,000 units per year, but insiders say it could double with a modest investment. If the design catches on and the market demands it, Jaguar could launch a roomier, three-row version featuring a larger energy pack.

E comes before I, however, and the Evoque-sized Jaguar E-Pace SUV, based on the same D8 architecture as the high-style baby Range Rover and Land Rover’s Discovery Sport, will make its debut in September at the Frankfurt show. The conventionally engineered E-Pace borrows styling cues from the F-Pace and shares its four-cylinder gasoline and diesel powertrains with the Evoque.

It’s not all SUVs or EVs at Jaguar, though. The next-generation XJ sedan, due in 2019, was planned to be an all-electric vehicle to differentiate it from the all-dominant Mercedes-Benz S-Class. But there’s been a change of heart. “We thought long and hard about this,” admits an insider, “but the world may not yet be ready for a second EV from Jaguar.”

Under consideration now is a matrix architecture that packages internal combustion, plug-in hybrid, and pure electric powertrains. Design chief Ian Callum’s team initially pitched a sporty coupelike concept, but top management favors an elegant, long-wheelbase, three-box sedan aimed at China and the U.S. For the plug-in hybrid model, a 335-hp version of the new 2.0-liter Ingenium four-cylinder gasoline engine, supported by a 134-hp electric motor, is likely. Pure EV range is expected to be more than 50 miles.

The next-generation F-Type, due for 2020, is the last of the new Jaguar cars on the immediate horizon. The coupe/roadster twins will grow in size to deliver more cabin space and will introduce new infotainment and connectivity features.

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Although it’s all change at Jaguar, it’s steady as she goes at Land Rover. Well, almost. The stylish new Range Rover Velar is the first Land Rover in history built on Jaguar vehicle architecture — D7a, which underpins the XE and XF sedans and the F-Pace SUV. Positioned between the Evoque and the Range Rover Sport, the Velar is a late entry into the sporty SUV segment, but Gerry McGovern’s pretty design means it should be a strong seller.

The Velar will be joined in late 2018 by the second-generation Range Rover Evoque, which is essentially a rework of today’s car, using the existing all-steel D8 architecture. More interesting is what happens to the Evoque and Discovery Sport — and Jaguar E-Pace — when D8 is retired in 2025.

Replacing D8 with a new lightweight aluminum-intensive structure, while useful in helping with Land Rover’s looming CO2 emissions problem, would break the bank, insiders say. So there’s talk of joining forces with BMW to rework the UKL architecture now used for the 1 Series, 2 Series, and Mini lineups, possibly with Toyota as a third partner. When asked whether there was a grain of truth in this rumor, however, senior BMW engineer Klaus Fröhlich shook his head, grinned, and said, “That’s news to me.”

In the meantime, the long-awaited, all-new Land Rover Defender, the first product out of JLR’s new factory in Slovakia, arrives in 2019. Based on a de-contented version of the off-road optimized D7u architecture that underpins the Range Rover, Range Rover Sport, and Land Rover Discovery, the Defender gets a total reboot in all departments. Expect two- and four-door versions in two configurations each, one for city slickers and one for off-road enthusiasts.

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