developed almost solely by magna the supplier serves almost all major brands worldwide including mercedes jaguar and b.m.w. . in anticipation of the new york international auto show in april the nominations for the world car of the year award were announced in geneva among the competitors are the jaguar i pace the audi each round and the volvo as sixty. where in a turning point i think of the industry and what we're seeing now. one petrol car one gasoline that will disappear into the future so it's a good sort of it's a turning point and we really we're very excited about. and now it's off to new york city. the kodiak has been a hit for skoda two hundred seventy seven thousand of them have been sold in the two years it's been on the market but this time we're not looking at the standard kodiak i perform it's r s. did it it's on the card testimony live state says the scooters are as family is growing this is the first r s version of his popular and she would be the kodiak ronnie's impressed with the cars to leader by turbo diesel that can deliver one hundred seventy six kilowatts of power and fiv

sense it apart from its predecessors but how does it compare with its competitors the mercedes c.l.s. and the jaguar x f and how does it handle we tested the most powerful diesel available for the a seven a three leader v six engine putting out two hundred ten kilowatts the fifty t.d.i. the four door sedan leaps from zero to one hundred kilometers per hour in five point three seconds reaching its top speed as is the norm for audi at two hundred fifty kilometers per hour the maker rates fuel consumption at five point seven leaders for a one hundred kilometers in germany the a seven scored back fifty t.v. i started just over sixty seven thousand euros. but that's come for the car to surmount this current is thoroughly enjoying an extra luxury feature so often found in test cars provided to the press and massage seats he pushes a button next to the seat and then selects the type of massage from the touch screen wave tapping stretch relaxation shoulder energizing or revitalizing will try revitalizing to see if the messiah seats will actually revitalize him. his mouth so you can imagine this would be esp

think tla is goio be facing a lot more electric vehicle competition from the likes of audi, jaguar, bmw, mercedes and others, starting with the 2021 model year. he reporter: and that's not only challenge facing tesla ceo elon musk. he's been strimd pped of his chairmanship by the.e.c. and is still battling with how he uses social media to talk about his country. >> it felt like aging five years in one. it was really intense. sl reporter: s biggest difficulty is managing its cash flow and potentially turning a profit, while trying to sell moreower priced vehicles like the model 3 and eventually the model y, which isul sch to go on sale late next year. phil lebeau, "nightly business repo >>> apple loses a round against qualcomm, and that's where w begin tonight's market focus. a san diego jury today found that apple did indeed infringe on threeatts held by mobile phone chip supplier qualcomm. as a result, appleust pay$31 million for the infringement and this was only one of a series of patent lawsuits between these two companies going on around the world rightnow. shares of both were higher. apple

audi, jaguar, bmw, mercedes-benz, and porsche are all coming out with electric cars those that have beenn so far are looked at very favorably by the press. finally, and this is an issue for anybody trying to build an electric car, particularly for tesla because they only build electric cars, electric batteries are exceptionally expensive. take a look at what he's saying he can do, sell a car for $35,000 that has a 60 kilowatt hour battery these batteries are in the neighborhood of $7,200 general motors bolt, which is chevrolet, that also has a battery about that size, they don't make any money on the car. that's okay, it helps offset the fuel economy issues on light-duty trucks on which they do maybe money the e-golf, they're selling a car for about the same amount of money, they make monthlies of them, making them at $35,000, with a battery half the size when i was looking at this you can see the volatility that we've seen fairly range bound one of the things that helps the stock bounce like this is the fact that it has an enormously high short interest. at some point he's probably goin

audi, jaguar, bmw, mercedes-benz and porsche are coming out with electric cars.hose are looked at very favorably by the automobile press. finally, this is an issue for tesla because they only build electric cars, electric batteries are exceptionally expensive. let's take a quick look at what he said he can do which is sell a car for $35,000 that as a 60 kilowatt hour battery. these batteries are probably in the neighborhood of $7,200 the general motors volt also has a battery that size. they don't make any money on the car. that's okay because it helps them offset the fuel economy issues on their trucks where they do make money look at the vg egolf this is a car they make millions of anyhow. they make them at $35,000 and a battery about half the size. so when i was taking a look at this thing, you can obviously see the volatility that we've seen one of the things that helps the stock bounce like this is the fact that it has an enormous lehigh short interest. at some point he's probably going to have to raise capital if he does that, that could increase the float

tesla's going to be facing a lot more electric vehicle competition from the likes of audi, jaguar, bmw, mercedesing with the 2021 model year which will first be available about this time next year. so those models will already be out by the time the first model y versions are available to consumers. >> yeah. you have a question? >> i was going to ask eric just what he thinks about what's happened with the s.e.c., too, with elon. >> you know, it's really -- it's pretty amazing though. i know that this latest sort of series of tweets by elon musk, you know, he had to go back and correct himself because he misstated the amount of productivity in terms of the output for next year you know, if you go back to the original tweet that gave the s.e.c. a lot of angst, that was his tweet about the ability to take the company private that he had the money lined up and he didn't. >> he was told by the s.e.c. to not do that anymore. >> i think there's a certain amount of common sense just rein yourself in. the s.e.c. says you're tweeting something that has an impact on your stock price or investors, you canno

you have the europeans accelerating introductions, jaguar came out, porsche coming out later this year, audi has vehicles and volkswagon and mercedes0, the competitive dynamics will be dramatically different. in 2021, europeans have strict emissions rules to meet that were tight end we may relax cafe standards in the u.s., things are getting worse in europe. >> here's my question. the ceo elon musk says this will outsell them combined. is this another example of him talking big game or did you see evidence of this the demand for suvs is high. do you think anything between what he is predicting and the lackluster reception the model got? >> certainly you're right the suvs here and china are growing, europe to a lesser extent where the luxury market tends to do better in terms of you be takup take, e y looks like the hree, do you see cannibalizization. jon mentioned at the top we were disappointed there wasn't a refresh there. i think you needed to see that the 3 being cannibalizized by the y, and conceivably could the y outsell all three, but the other three are shrinking is the problem. >> your point on competition is well taken we