Are Japanese brands sales being shifted to local EV brands rapidly?
New Energy Vehicles (NEVs) in China
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Are Japanese brands sales being shifted to local EV brands rapidly?
From my own sentiment, there's starting to be widespread acceptance of EREVs as proper EV whereas in the past many looked down on Li Auto for not being a "proper" PHEV
Some pretty surprising non-EV news:
Mazda 3 dropped prices to just 8.99w for 1.5L MT version and 9.99w for 2.0L 6AT
This is a car that used to sell for 13-17w just a couple years back and supposedly half a level more premium than other Japanese cars like Corolla/Sentra.
Rise of EVs is forcing crazy price cuts
Mazda 3 dropped prices to just 8.99w for 1.5L MT version and 9.99w for 2.0L 6AT
This is a car that used to sell for 13-17w just a couple years back and supposedly half a level more premium than other Japanese cars like Corolla/Sentra.
Rise of EVs is forcing crazy price cuts
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I've test drove the new Mazdas, and I can't believe how over-inflationed their prices are. MX-50 for example. A newly introduced 2023 SUV with 6AT, torsion bar suspension, and extremely underpowered base engine selling for ~$50K in Canada. AND wait times are over a year. Mazda must have crazy margins for each of their cars sold.
Why is there a shortage of Japanese cars in North America? Hopefully superior Chinese EV will drive down prices.
I don’t think Chinese EVs have really cracked the market outside of Mexico, the automotive lobby would never allow it.
It isn't about being proper or not (though EREV always face risk of different legal treatment). It's simply that the customer groups don't exactly match - and among people whom i know, Li was chosen precisely because of the "ER" part. Not slighting their superb quality here, but Li's outstanding feature is exactly that they aren't BEVs.
BYD sales for June is a new high. Still below where I was hoping. I think there is really a delay in the export number increasing because a lot of dolphins are shipped but still need to be test driven and for sales to be complete
Denza sales chief with very good news
N7 to launch tomorrow with prices
huge NEV market in China for heavy industries. Looks like hydrogen FCEVs are getting some pretty large orders here.
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All these civil engineering vehicle manufacturers love to use foreign-branded diesel engines for their machines instead of Weichai or Yuchai, etc. But even Weichai also inexplicably uses foreign brands in some of the machines let alone Sany, Shantui and Liugong.