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are small electric cars made in china the right answer to your production constraints. small affordable eaves for white public. china is the pacemaker 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. these is one of the key factors to mazda, to transition towards the carpet, and you'd for mobility. why are so few low cost electric cars on the roads in europe? at the lower cost segments, this no

a product off off from the folks? well, i can, or either your opinion or width and a common you factor is right now the risk as extremely high that the electric car will no longer be affordable for the average citizen. the car is made in germany are simply too expensive. china could close this gap in the european market coast, in case you get this affordability is very important for you and being consumers today. and so i think there's a very high demand in the market and we're small vehicles kind of 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 the accounts i realized that small vehicles are how you move e mobility forward 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. does he do the 2 s with $27.00 kilowatt? there's a huge range of small ease, but only in the chinese market. the willing hung, one for example is china is the best selling electric car for the price equivalent to just their $2700.00 euros. you can buy to the equivalent of less than $15000.00 bureaus. 12 percent cost between 15 and 20037 percent between 20 and 30021 percent between stare sheet and $50000.00 and only 11 percent cost. more than 50000 bureaus. and she not the dean to the china supplies the

market. you need with small vehicles, including in europe. miss kline 5, sorry. dfcs cash got billed to business, selling the russian car brand lot in germany. but since russia's invasion of ukraine, the business with a lot of his grind to a halt. and so he's made a lot of germany's dealer and service network with more than 320 branches available to the chinese car makers. and this and deal with the from the beginning we've known that the european market is important for our electric vehicle manufacturers. and we did a bit of research with it's not a german car owner's drive. an average of 40 kilometers a day, was it soon, the phone goes to the small electric vehicle. so we have a range of 300 kilometers and that's enough for a weight of the item. so i think there's a very high demand in the market for small vehicles over the top of the stores. it kind of what's very good. in china,

the small easy market has been built up systematically. between 20152022 the average price dropped from 66232000 bureaus. while in europe, it rose 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 are promoting small cars. map whom to the final stage include electric range, how far they go, how efficient they are, and how many resources where used. in other words, searching efficiency standards, exclusive tensed on that. and so they're also making sure that the cars don't get bigger and bigger like they do here. i'll just maybe walk with around the right ones. and you 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 bureaus or the ego life, which asking university professor good cash. who brought onto the market in a small series for $24000.00 bureaus. in europe, only 7 percent of all the electric cars sell for less than fair t ties. and yours. 45 percent cost between 705-0000. and a whopping 48 percent. go for more than 50000 euros. the cars that are mostly heavier than 2 tons and run contrary to the concept of economic co electric mobility was or electric on his physics. and the car

is yes, the accelerated and the that's makes no sense. my on my clothes on that, but 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 one of 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. it's not only the small number of units produced that increases costs. the decisive factor is that the factory, a transfer range 40 percent of the total cost of an e card and european car makers mostly buy them as a high price from china, the world's market leader and electricity storage. the government in beijing has ensured that china controls the entire value chain of electric cars, giving it complete autonomy and production the china. he's 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, nice the government, we need the regulations to make it happen. it's not the industry, it's the regulators, which will make it impossible the small electric tearing cost. so for example, we would use the subsidies for electric rated cost and then really most of the small costs that just spring here, it's cheapest to electric car was available in germany in 2022 for 11500 years after a subsidy of 9000 bureaus in 2025 with subsidies. it will cost almost twice as much while a high end electric s u. v from bmw will increase in price by just 20 percent to

$55000.00 bureaus. at least volkswagen has a nice that it will launch an electric car for less than 25000 bureaus, but not until 2026. you can always reach full calls 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 money that we can reinvest in the future. and you, in his factory plant and a new factory in spain 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 can but you hurdles will have to be overcome before these cars can launch in. europe is open and the so called

certification phase, this procedure, or 80 long pages for the modification item. we're lucky that we've teamed up with a lot of germany. they've also given us lots of chips and assist us with the how motivation for the tips on the, on the system. so quite a little bit as he owns bladder and the location process, the car must be adapted to the technical requirements of the european union. the allies, company, and violence sides also sales chinese cars in germany. the g 2 and a small car from dorsen, which of laura selves under the deal name for $24000.00 euros. 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 account of european safety regulations the the way 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 is 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 the speed and warn when the car leaves its lane. as well as extra bells and whistles lake drive are driving us detection is that's where the beauty of traffic and technological hardware is that the use imposing on the small cost sector or a hindrance and push out prices on the small chinese cars have to undergo a radical overhaul to qualify for you home, a location. not every cheap chinese e card can even pass the test human level, the standards out there and i, i would say i wouldn't accept to lower the standards because of the 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, but we have a doubt that the price will be at the same level as chinese carve a week or 2, what we should do as your opinions are, we need to be too many to be more efficient. i'm up to mistake. i want to be able to mistake, 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 a or a funky cat, an or r one has already started to shake up the german market with the help of switzerland's m a fried group, europe's largest car dealer is making around $200.00 of its dealerships, in service outlets and germany available to market the overall punky cat. and soon also a revised version of the or r one meal fry made a name for itself in the 19 seventy's when it started selling jackson's use brands like subaru and later mitsubishi in germany. in the 19 ninety's, emil fry 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 companies manufacturers in the seventy's and the cream manufacturers in the early ninety's. we know,

especially what is it possible for the low 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 it. cars in europe that circumvents high you terrace and avoids the high cost 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 and europe. and i think once that's happening and, you know, then they have made it and i think then they 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, gosh, guy 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 the 1st, if there were importers, hoover and then they tried to establish the market themselves, step so much you can gain another market. so that's what the japanese show noted. so that's what the korean showed on. that's what the chinese are now going to show in a more brutal way of applies on the side. 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 produce here in europe. won't fit for me who lives in the countryside and i drive when he had suddenly sense that the ducks on

the road don't move because they didn't hear the cars. and this was a buzzard us out of that. china. we'd be driving around without small electric cars, a slide lock the door, steve gig. we'll china save email, bail 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 in by providing chief electric, hopefully the 1st aid in this way. it will open the door. so a lot of discussion after the world is saved by those who buy it. it's always a matter of demand nearly china use not only a pace makeup of the website, the chinese oems and also 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 off draw 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 checking that out right now. welcome to ref. requested is, can be aster 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 improved gloss that come to a stand that in every us from on the are

mainly driving in and around the city. so a lot of subbing go because of traffic lights or traffic jams. and we have an average consumption of 12.8 kilowatt hours for 100 kilometers, which is way below watts elbow drains all what has been measured in w o t p. so in theory, it should be possible to achieve arranged that a is a little higher than what overall claims, why at least achieve the range of claims. because oftentimes you won't be able to reach that with all of all the electric cost. the 1st model named us 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 re union. so what better place to take a look at the current generation then the capital city of germany, but the after f was the successor to the congest that happened because awful

decided to replace it stodgy. military names like had no cadets ends company. over the years, april sold more than 13500000 units of the astra. and in the station wagon version, which was europe's best selling and its category from 1993 to 2000. now back to the aster electric, what i like about the electric, if it's forwarding is not only the little quite sporty, but you're 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 fee, it's sporty, and i really like it. but there's a lot of competition in the segments, like the v w id 3 at nissan. the. the only thing i would have wished for a live in law power, one number 15 kilowatts is okay. a but not exactly the sporty time. if you compare

that to be the use id 3 that comes in at $115.00 kilo watts 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 in our top speed the us draw a 10 kilometers at all faster than the id the straw electric gas powered by a 115 kilowatt electric engine power. with the 54 kilowatt hour battery. and that gives you a w l to p range, all 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 average consumption, the old boss to comes in,

it's 14.8 kilowatt hours. while the id 3 will have 15.2. so 0.4 as a difference. why is that? mostly because of the weight loss drive the weight of just under 1680 kilograms. while the id 3 will be at least 1805 kilograms. so a 12230 kilograms, which is quite a lot receipts in the us or the know me go, the certified and you feel that with every keep i'm going to 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 the 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 end, integrated it into the steering wheel. quite nice. then there are some buttons for the most important functions. volume adjustment. busy on the cruise control and so on. what i like the materials at the door right here. this is some soft touch fee. it's pretty nice. this looks like carbon, it's not but it's a fee is good any way. and then you have some level type down here, hydro of plastic, here in grey, at the push of a button,

you can switch between 3 different dr. local. the astra 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 loaded at the v w i. d. 3. the comparatively long overhangs cupid a sporty if you're the just the smallest 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 a one pedal drive if you plan ahead

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 the 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 shrink. little 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 then you astray electric. the back looks so good, striking spotty. i really like it. and even though the car has some, i know 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. how would that in mind? i would say the astra electric has very good changes of the 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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