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constrain. small affordable eaves for white public. china is a pace maker for a in bringing in bringing small electric vehicles to the roads of to good small cars powering a mobility transformation and making electron mobility affordable for the masses. the affordability of electric mobility. this is one of the key factors to mazda, to transition towards the carpenter you'd from won't be the why are so few low cost electric cars on the road in europe? at the lower cost segments this no product off off from the folks while i can or other european or west on the common you factors right now the risk as extremely on the electric car will no longer be affordable

for the average citizen. besides, the car is made in germany are simply too expensive. china could close this gap in the european market course and can see this affordability is very important for year and paying consumers today. and so i think there's a very high demand in the market and we're small vehicles kind of frustrated what needs to happen for europe to also enjoy a small affordable, easy the chinese industry is now enough in a position to demo critize electric mobility for the rabbits on the lookout for answers account, they've realized that small vehicles are how you move e mobility for the tide. trash got from lower section 8 in port small electric cars from china to germany. one model, the 35 kilowatts diode e, s 2, at the price of 34500 euro is minus the german government's environmental bonus.

11000 euros cheaper. the g 2, d 2 s with 27 kilowatt. there's a huge range of small ease, not only in the chinese market, the willing hung, one for example, is china's best selling electric car. the price equivalent to just bear to 700 euro's you can buy a, b, y, d, c, go there for just 10400 curos. isaac, you leave 100 many costs. just 14900 euro's the chinese e car market is a bargain. hunters power dice around every 50 car can be had the equivalent of less than $15000.00 bureaus. 12 percent cost between $15.20. 37 percent between $20.30. 21 percent between $70.50 and only 11 percent cost. more than 50000 bureaus. a she not the

dean to the china supplies the market. you need with small vehicles including in europe, mysql and 5, sorry. visa trash cap bill to business, selling the russian car brand lot in germany. but since russia's invasion of ukraine, the business with ally does, has grind to a halt. and so he's made a lot of germany's dealer and service networks with more than $320.00 branches available to chinese car makers. and this in the, from the beginning, we've known that the european market is important for our electric vehicle manufacturers. we did a bit of research, lots of german car owners drive an average of 40 kilometers a day, was it soon? the phone goes to the small electric vehicles and we have a range of 300 kilometers and that's enough for a week. the, the items and so i think there's a very high demand in the market for small vehicles over the top. and so is it kind of what's very good? in china,

the small easy market has been built up systematically between 20152022 the average price drops from 66232000 bureaus. while in europe, it rows from 49256000 the development of china, the electric car industry was the portion for decades by governmental policies and subsidies from the stock. there's been a focus on what kinds of vehicles are actually produced. the last line, these policies in china and this whole e b strategy have a number of reasons why they're promoting small cars. map home to the timeouts. they include electric, right? and just how far they go to have an efficient they are how many resources where used, in other words, search and efficiency standards which come to test on that. and so they're also making sure that the cars don't get bigger and bigger. lexi do here, i'll just maybe work with around the pounds in your or at big cars,

dominates the electric market. small electric cars play only a minor role. like the electric c at $500.00, which can be had 435000 bureaus. they're reynolds, zoe, which costs to run 37000 euros or the ego life which asked and university professor good cash. who brought onto the market in a small series for $24000.00 bureaus. and you're only 7 percent of all electric cars sell for less than fair. 2000 euros. 45 percent cost between 705-0000. and a whopping 48 percent. go for more than $50000.00 euros cars that are mostly heavier than to time and run contrary to the concept of economical electric mobility was or electric on is physics and the car

is yes to accelerate it and. and that's makes no sense beyond my non so my goal is we have a tendency towards ever bigger and wider vehicles with more aerodynamics that are inefficient at high speeds. that's not a good development. and it's a shame that with electrification, inexpensive small cars are disappearing. basically on the cars for the people in the oldest floats in europe, there's not much profit to be made with small e cars at the moment is not only the small number of units produced that increases costs. the decisive factor is that the battery, a transfer ride for 2 percent of the total cost of an e card and european carmakers mostly by them as a high price from china. the world market leader in electricity storage. the government and beijing has ensured that china controls the entire value chain of electric cars, giving it complete autonomy and production. the chinese is paul. it's

a real estate set. the strategy for the development of the countries automotive industry and 5 year plans. while european leaders lack coherent plans to make e mobility viable for the masses, need the government, we need the regulations to make it happen. it's not the industry, it's the regulators, which makes it impossible that small electric daily cost. uh so for example, we use the subsidies for electric rated cost and then the most of the small costs that just spring here, it's cheapest electric car was available in germany in 2022 for 11500 years after a subsidy of 9000 bureaus. in 2025 with light subsidies, it will cost almost twice as much while a high end electric s u. v. from bmw of you will increase in price by just 20 percent to $55.00 sites and bureaus. at least volkswagen has

a nice that it will launch and electric car for less than 25000 years. but not until 2026 so you can always reach your call is coming earlier, but we have to make this call profitable. we are not in the social business that this is about us all the company going forward and creating a money that we can reinvest in the future. and you, in his factory plant and a new factory in spring where labor is cheaper, should help keep production costs to the id to low bought the new plants wouldn't be finished before 2026. until then german small electric car buyers will have to make due with vehicles imported from china by d to trash got but he, you hurdles will have to be overcome before these cars can launch in. europe. is open monday, the so called certification phase. this procedure,

the 80 long pages for the modification item. lucky that we've teamed up with a lot of german and they've also given us lots of chips and assist us with the motivation for the tips on the system. so quite a little bit ceilings bladder and the location process, a car must be adapted to the technical requirements of the european union. the largest company in rylon fights also sales chinese cars in germany. the g 2 and a small car from dorsen, which is laura sales under the deal name for $24000.00 bureaus. the cars are not quite as cheap as in china because they have to be retrofitted at great expense. everything from seat belts to airbags on a kind of european safety regulations. and you want small cars to have equipment that matches vehicles that can go 200 kilometers on the track. there's no difference,

not even in the safety requirements. it's just us in china or in asia, also in india. have a lot of vehicles that cost well under $10000.00 euros, which i don't think will be available here. and from 2024, every car registered in the you will have to have complex driver assistance systems that can regulate to speed and warren. when the car leaves its lane, as well as extra bells and whistles lake drive are driving us detection. that's where the beauty of traffic and technological hardware is that the use imposing on the small cost sector, or a hindrance to shop prices on the small chinese cars have to undergo a radical overhaul to qualify for you. home, a location, a note, every cheap chinese e card can even pass the test. union level, the standards out there and i, i would what it's except to lower the standards because of competition from far

east. however, it european manufacturer is trying to produce a low cost electric car are also struggling with the use possibly safety regulations. somehow, europe doesn't seem to be the right place for cheap e cars. the maybe to do mean how to, how to make it more affordable than what we, what we can do because we have, we have the situation. we have the framework where we have an adult that the price will be at the same level as chinese carve a week or $2.00. what we should to do as your opinions are, we need to be too many to be more efficient. i'm up to mistake. i want to build domestic and we need to be optimistic because we don't have any other choice. but time is running at the european auto industry. william lee, the head of chinese car maker, neal has a nice plans to launch

a sub brand of small electric cars in europe next year. and chinese car make a great wall which produces small e cars like the overall funky cat, an or r one has already started to shake off the german market with the help of switzerland's m a fragrance. your largest car dealer is making around $200.00 of its dealerships in service. i live in germany available to market, the overall funky cat and soon also a revised version of the or our one. the emil fry made a name for itself in the 19 seventy's when it started selling japanese use brands like subaru and later mitsubishi in germany. in the 19 ninety's emil frye also unfortunate the 1st one day cars to germany and helped establish the korean brand in europe. there a couple of similarities to the launch of the chip, a nice manufacturer. i think the 17th is in the green manufacturers in the early

ninety's. we know, especially what it's impossible for the look to be successful and how long does it last? nobody knows that we have seen the manufacturer of the take over that is actually not pop markets like germany. hyundai went independent after being jump started by m l fry. know also produces its cars in europe that circumvents high you terrace and avoid the high costs of import export. could this be a blueprint for chinese car makers? the key question is also going to be, will, chinese produces actually stop exporting only and also stop producing in europe. and i think once that's happening and, you know, then deaf made it. and i think then that can also contribute to these, these goals of, you know, producing cheaper costs in europe for your customers. and that will also then trigger reaction by your income make us that there's

a demand for these. and you know, to also come up with their own solutions, the touch cash scott is convinced that he's only a pioneer as an importer of chinese e cars and wouldn't be doing this job for more than 5 years. we are the problem with the japanese used to do when the koreans k on a come 1st as there were importers hoover and then they try to establish the market themselves step so you can gain another market. so that is what the japanese show. and that's our, that's what the korean showed on that. that's what the chinese are now going to show in a more brutal way on buys website. and he's convinced that small chinese e car is like the di you and will play an important role in opening doors. to the european market, a competition like doesn't rattle it, doesn't flatter it, runs quietly quieter than some cars we produced here in europe. i will pull it up to did for me who lives in the country side. and i drive when he had suddenly sense that that ducks on the road don't move because they didn't hear the cars. and this

was a budget also that china we'd be driving around without small electric cars, a side bar to steve's gig fund. will china save email bill? is he in europe? the comes and they've realized that small vehicles are how you move e mobility forward china is that the state of the, of the village? yeah. in fact providing cheap electric. if i say it in this way, it will open the door. so a lot of discussion of the world is saved by those who buy it. it's always a matter of demand. guess clearly, china is not the only a pace makeup of the website. the chinese oems are not on the pacemakers, but also catalyst now transition to electric mobility, whether small chinese e cause over run europe in the future or the european auto industry is spurred on by competition from china to build more affordable e cars itself. the emphasis from china will definitely help make electron mobility

more affordable for everyone. the . this is the current generation opal australia, a very successful model since the ninety's and it has now taken the next step into the future by becoming available as a purely electric version. we're taking that out right now. welcome to read. the question is, can the astra electric live up to the success of its predecessors? that's what we want to find out today. the general driving impression in the product thing is pleasantly silent, which is partly due to the sol improve glass that come to a stand that in every us from on the are

mainly driving in and around the city. so a lot of stuff in go because of traffic lights, or traffic jams, and we have and never, it's consumption of 12.8 kilowatt hours for 100 kilometers, which is way below. lots old will james or what has to be measured in w o t p. so in theory, it should be possible to achieve arrange that a is a little higher than what over claims by at least achieve the range of, of claims. because oftentimes you won't be able to reach that with all of all the electric cost. the 1st model named us to came on to the market in 1991. so shortly after the german, the re union. so you might be able to say, this car a somewhat a child of the union. so up at a place to take a look at the current generation, then the capital city of germany. but the aster asked was the successor to the

contest that happened because overall decided to replace it stodgy, military names like ad mo, cadet and company. over the years, opal sold more than 13500000 units of the astra. and it station wagon version, which was europe's best selling and its category from 1993 to 2000. now to the astra electric. what i like about the after electric, if it's forwarding, is that only the little quite sporty, but you'll also sitting quite low. then of course you have the battery sitting very low in the car, you have a low center of gravity and you feel that while driving into cars it's fields sporty and i really like it. but there's a lot of competition in the segments, like the dw id 3 at nissan leaf. the only thing i would have wished for is a little more power. one, number 15 kilowatts is ok,

but not exactly the sporty type. if you compare that to be the use id 3 that comes in at $115.00 kilowatts of power, that is a number i would consider just at the beginning of sporty. but you have to say one thing with 170 kilometers and our top speed. the us draw is 10 kilometers at all faster than the id 3. the straw electric gas powered by a $115.00 kilowatt electric engine pad with the 54 kilowatt hour battery. and that gives you a w l 2 p range of 418 kilometers, which is quite good. if you compare that to be able to use id 3, the current generation will have uh 50 a kilowatt hour battery and go like 10 kilometers more. but if you compare the everett's consumption, the oval off to comes in,

it's. busy 13.8 kilowatt hours, while the id 3 will have $15.00. so 0.4 as a difference. why is that? mostly because of the weight. the o plaster as a weight of just on the 1680 kilograms. while the id 3 will be at least 1805 kilograms, so a 12230 kilograms, which is quite a lot the seats in the us draw or the know me go, the certified and you feel that with every keep them into you drive, not a single bit of pain or any of the unpleasant feelings. on the outside. the aster electric looks just the same as the hybrid and combustion engine version the interior of the electric gas to it's not that different than that of the other hoss drive versions. you have 210 inch displays,

the right one is a touch screen infotainment system. but what i really like is the fact that open decided to keep physical buttons for the climate control. so you can adjust the temperature or the fan or whatever you want the the steering wheel fee, it's quite good. looks ok. i'm not a fan of that huge part in the middle. it's a little too big, but i have to say i like that. they took the visor design from the front and integrated it into the steering wheel. quite nice. then there are some buttons for the most important functions, volume adjustment fall, and the cruise control. busy and so on what i like uh the materials at the door right here. this is some soft touch fee. it's really nice. this looks like carbon, it's not, but it's that fee is good any way. and then you have some level type down here. high goals, plastic here in grade, at the push of a button,

you can switch between 3 different dr. local. the aster also has a heads up display that one is optional, but i would always suggest you opt in for that because it's so much easier to keep track of your speed, the speed limit and also the vacation. because all of that, it's shown there. and there is no need to take your eyes down from the road so you will always be on your way, safer. with the length of 4.37 meters. the astro is a solid 10 centimeters longer than the vw id. 3. the comparatively long over hanks give it a sporty and here's the just the most other electrical possibly electric cos, the astro electric has the possibility to shift into a recuperation mode that will then cause the call to break. if you take your foot off the accelerator that way you could do one pedal drive if you plan to have

a little bit or are aware of what's happening in front of you. one thing i missed though is that you can adjust the strength of recuperation with all it costs. you will have 123, or maybe even 4 levels. and here there is only yes or no the, the thing i don't really like about the current generation us draw a me indicate a sound because it sounds like someone is playing the drums with an empty plastic bottle. at least that's what it sounds like to me. i mean listen not exactly a fan of that. the as through like trick will 1st be available in this 40 g s line for the starting price of just over 45000 euros in germany.

this is my favorite view off the new us dry electric. the back looks so good, striking sporty. i really like it. and even though the car has some mine of flaws in some details, the complete package was able to convince me i like this car. and what's even better about it, this car will become available as a station wagon, a purely electric station wagon station wagon lover. i have to say this is what we need. we have almost none of these on the market. i would that in mind, i would say the astra electric has very good changes will be coming just as huge of his success as the predecessor swore to some of the astro electric is a very good looking car with a decent range comfortable seats. and lots of standard equipment, but the maximum $100.00 kilowatt charging fixed recuperation level and lack of

power. leave you wanting more in the future over plants, the launch cheaper entry level versions of the astro electric enjoy the roll it and see you next time on risk. the the, the

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