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Ford to make electric car parts at Halewood plant

Ford is to invest hundreds of millions of pounds in its Halewood plant on Merseyside, helping safeguard 500 jobs.
The factory will be Ford's first European plant to produce components for electric cars.

The factory will be Ford's first European plant to produce components for electric cars.

Ford to make electric car parts at Halewood plant - BBC News

orrery

The EV infection point has already happened:

https://www.carboncommentary.com/blog/2021/10/6/gradually-and-then-suddenly

This is from the Chris Goodall's quite excellent Carbon Commentary newsletter. You can subscribe to this for free on the site.

Martyn1981

orrery said:

The EV infection point has already happened:

https://www.carboncommentary.com/blog/2021/10/6/gradually-and-then-suddenly

This is from the Chris Goodall's quite excellent Carbon Commentary newsletter. You can subscribe to this for free on the site.

I've no idea if that's a perfect spelling mistake, or brilliant humour, but either way I'm going to be stealing it. Cheers.

Martyn1981

Is he allowed to say that?    

VW's Herbert Diess Explains Why Brand's EVs Are Better Than Gas

His post on LinkedIn basically spells out how much money a person could save by choosing an electric car over a gas-powered car. To make it as straightforward as possible, Diess shared data from Autozeitung that compares the gas-powered Tiguan compact crossover to the new ID.4 electric SUV. He says driving a combustion engine car costs up to 50% more than an electric car.

“Driving a combustion engine car costs up to 50% more compared to an e-car. The Autozeitung does the math, taking into account all the costs:

Driving a VW Tiguan costs around 30% more per kilometer than an ID.4. One kilometer in an Audi Q5 costs around 40% more compared to a Q4 e-tron. And driving a Skoda Kodiaq is around 50% more expensive per kilometer compared to an Enyaq.

It’s time to switch!”

Exiled_Tyke

Martyn1981 said:

Is he allowed to say that?    

VW's Herbert Diess Explains Why Brand's EVs Are Better Than Gas

His post on LinkedIn basically spells out how much money a person could save by choosing an electric car over a gas-powered car. To make it as straightforward as possible, Diess shared data from Autozeitung that compares the gas-powered Tiguan compact crossover to the new ID.4 electric SUV. He says driving a combustion engine car costs up to 50% more than an electric car.

“Driving a combustion engine car costs up to 50% more compared to an e-car. The Autozeitung does the math, taking into account all the costs:

Driving a VW Tiguan costs around 30% more per kilometer than an ID.4. One kilometer in an Audi Q5 costs around 40% more compared to a Q4 e-tron. And driving a Skoda Kodiaq is around 50% more expensive per kilometer compared to an Enyaq.

It’s time to switch!”

I'd love the switch but the Q4 e-tron I need (OK would like!) would set me back around £60k. So just a small cashflow issue here!

Martyn1981

Another nice little milestone with PEV sales beating diesel in Europe. Hopefully PEV's will be closing in on petrol next, whilst BEV's target diesel.

Now More Plug-In Car Sales Than Diesel Car Sales In Europe

About a year ago, auto industry analyst JATO Dynamics reported that sales of electrified passenger vehicles (hybrids, plug-in hybrids and pure EVs) had overtaken those of diesels for the first time ever. Now the next milestone has been passed — in August, plug-in vehicles (plug-in hybrids and pure EVs) outsold diesels in Europe for the first time, taking a 21% share of the market, compared to 20% for diesels.

JKenH

Interesting statistic on car sales in US. Toyota and Tesla have both increased sales by a similar amount, each capturing an additional 1.4% of the market, over the last 4 years. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10104725/Tesla-cars-make-two-thirds-electronic-vehicle-registered-year.html

Martyn1981

Looks like India is thinking through the needs of a battery vehicle charging infrastructure, well, they can certainly learn from our mistakes.

India Intends To Install EV Chargers Every 50 Kilometers Of National Highway

In India, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has set an ambitious goal for developing its EV charging infrastructure. India Infrahub reports that NHAI will install an EV charging station along the national highways every 50 kilometers by 2023. This is over 40,000 kilometers of highways, with a plan of almost 700 charging stations.

Along with the government agencies, there are public and private sectors with their own plans for developing EV charging infrastructure in India. One example is the state-owned Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) and its plans to build 5,000 EV charging stations within the next three years.

The oil company wants to utilize its network of 19,000 fuel retail stations and experience to add EV charging facilities. The company plans to build the charging stations in its retail fuel outlets.

The article also noted that Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari said that by the end of this decade India wants 70% of its commercial cars, 30% of its private cars, 40% of its buses, and 80% of its two- and three-wheelers to be fully electric.

Martyn1981

Good news from London where the transition to lower emission vehicles is happening faster, but I assume we have to consider the 'site specific' issues, such as congestion and air quality charges, higher income levels (for many), and the news/understanding that the air quality is poor.

But, it still goes to show what is possible, and presumably what we see there will happen elsewhere as legislation grows, and BEV prices fall.

Tongue-in-cheek - the article also raises criticism for a new 4 lane tunnel under the Thames. Simples, just restrict it to BEV vehicles only, and add yet another nudge to the BEV arsenal.

London drivers ditching diesel cars six times faster than rest of UK

Drivers in London have abandoned diesel cars six times faster than those in the rest of the UK since Sadiq Khan announced plans for a massive expansion of the London’s clean air zone.

Research released days before London’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) is rolled out across the capital shows there are about 128,000 fewer diesel cars on the city’s roads than in 2018, when the mayor announced plans to create one of the biggest clean air zones in Europe.

Oliver Lord, the head of Clean Cities Campaign UK, which carried out the research, said: “The expansion of the ultra-low emission zone is monumental and has turbo-charged the end of diesel cars in London.”

But he said Khan needed to go further if he wanted to reach his target for London to be carbon neutral by 2030. He added: “There is only one way to go: petrol and diesel cars out. Active, shared and electric mobility in.”

Grumpy_chap

Martyn1981 said:

Good news from London where the transition to lower emission vehicles is happening faster, but I assume we have to consider the 'site specific' issues, such as congestion and air quality charges, higher income levels (for many), and the news/understanding that the air quality is poor.

But, it still goes to show what is possible, and presumably what we see there will happen elsewhere as legislation grows, and BEV prices fall.

Tongue-in-cheek - the article also raises criticism for a new 4 lane tunnel under the Thames. Simples, just restrict it to BEV vehicles only, and add yet another nudge to the BEV arsenal.

London drivers ditching diesel cars six times faster than rest of UK

This London switch from diesel is certainly linked to the ULEZ expansion next week.

Given the ULEZ allows really quite old petrol cars to carry on (my 2007 Focus is fine) but really quite new diesel car are not fine (have to be post-Sept 2015 I think), any short-term change away from diesel is a distortion as only diesel drivers are impacted to change cars because of the legislation imposed.


On another query, I wonder to what extent any current figures about percent of cars sold that are EV, PHEV, hybrid, petrol or diesel are valid at the moment?

BBC News has again confirmed that the supply of new cars is a constrained market because of the chip shortage:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58993851

This could drive considerable distortions. 
Take, for example, a major manufacturer with a plethora of brands but all using similar micro-electronics.  If they have only one chip but two willing customers, well, business probably dictates that the one chip goes into the £200k supercar and not the supermini.  
You can also see that a manufacturer offering a supermini "from £17k" or an EV version of the same supermini "from £26k" will likely prioritise turnover in deciding where the constrained supply of chips can go.