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Alexander Lutz, Managing Director of Polestar Germany, has again on the virtual table of electric car news.Net took place to replace via Polestar. Much has done, since he was afraid of a year ago and gave to understand “2021 becomes the year of the Polestar 2” – a statement that one may now be considered confirmed as confirmed.
Tesla is not easy in Europe. By 2019, almost every third electric car on Europe’s streets was a Tesla. At the beginning of 2020, the supremacy started to dwindle. At the end of 2021, Tesla had to rode behind the VW Group when it comes to the paragraph of pure E cars. Because the Volkswagen Group was able to join the approval of 297 last year.Draw 155 electric cars.
With a new battery plant in Gothenburg, Sweden, the car manufacturer Volvo and the battery manufacturer Northvolt are accelerating the path to electrification: The new production facility, which will create up to 3000 jobs, is expected to go into operation in 2025 and will complement the planned research and development center that the two Swedish companies announced in December 2021.
The Japanese car manufacturer Mazda, which is considered to be a latecomer when it comes to e-mobility, wants to expand its range of electric cars and is scheduled to add three new electric models to its portfolio by 2025. The three new Stromers should all be based on the new, dedicated Skyactiv EV Scalable Architecture, which the manufacturer announced last year.
That’s probably nothing more. In 2017, the Swedish start-up Unitis of the Australian founder Lewis Horne was taken to become a second Tesla. The fully electric small car Uniti One, which should set new standards with an unusual space distribution and highest sustainability in the urban area, will probably no longer see the light of series production after a long time.
A few days after the world premiere of the Skoda Enyaq Coupe iV, the Czech car manufacturer is also taking orders for its sporty top model. Black body details, side skirts in body color and the typical red reflector strip on the rear apron identify the Enyaq Coupe RS iV as a member of the Skoda RS family.
Ola Kallenius, CEO of the car manufacturer Mercedes, spoke in an interview with Die Zeit about the spin-off of the truck division, the change in the automotive industry, the move away from combustion engines and the electrification of car mobility.
“We haven’t experienced a change like the one in the automotive industry for decades.
Behind Jaguar Panthera does not hide the successor of the i-pace, but much more the basis for the change of the brand towards a pure electric car manufacturer. Future e-models of the brand are to be based on the Panthera platform. Nevertheless, the I-PACE will continue to be built.
With 2.62 million passenger car registrations, the year 2021 closes with a good 300.000 vehicles less than compared to the previous year – a historically low value on the German car market. Compared to 2019, there are even almost a million fewer (-985.126) Approvals.
Looking at the bare numbers, this sounds very serious.