Paris, France
The electric cars of new generation, with 400 kilometers, or more than autonomy, was exhibited at the automobile Salon of Paris in search of new customers and markets.
The French manufacturer Renault announced this Thursday, on the first day of the opening of the salon to the professionals, that their new model Zoe will have a range of theoretical 400 kilometers (300 in real terms), compared to the 240 of your current version.
These benefits “should improve or eliminate one of the obstacles to the development of the electric car, the autonomy,” said the general director of Renault, Carlos Ghosn.
“I’m very happy to see that all the builders are rushing now to say that it is the future,” he added with some irony Ghosn, who has spent years defending electric cars.
Opel has also announced that its Ampera-e, a european version of the Chevrolet Bolt, it will have an autonomy theoretic of 400 kilometers.
The Bolt was the response of General Motors to the cars of Tesla, a california-based company that dominates the market of high-end electric cars from that, in 2012, brought to the market its Model S, with 500 km of autonomy.
The company already has registered 370,000 orders developed for its Model 3, scheduled for 2017, and it promises 350 miles of autonomy.
Nissan, partner of Renault, also bet on the electric car with their Leaf (250 km of autonomy theoretical), which has sold 230,000 copies since 2010, although it presents no new versions in this room.
In total Nissan-Renault has outstanding 350,000 electric vehicles.
Sales on the rise
Volkswagen, in the middle of a crisis with the case of diesel engines, souped-up, presented in Paris, a prototype called I. D. Concept that you should reach 600 kilometers of autonomy, but will not be operational until 2020.
“The Volkswagen group will develop and build more than 30 new electric vehicles additional until 2025,” said the company’s chairman, Matthias Müller. “The future is the electric car,” he said.
According to Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, an expert German automotive research institute’s CAR, “in 2020, the autonomy of 500 kilometers will be the norm.”
“When you ask people what autonomy he wants, more than half of the responding 500 miles and a third asked more than 750″, indicates Rémi Cornubert, an expert AT Kearney.
In Europe, France has surpassed Norway in terms of volume and is now the country of the continent where most electric cars are sold, according to the French Association of development of electric mobility (Avere).
however, Norway remains the leader in market share (13%), compared to only 1.1% in France.
The future is the electric car, Matthias Müller, Executive chairman of VW |
“so far this year, our sales of electric cars have doubled compared to last year,” said president and ceo of PSA, Carlos Tavares. The plan of PSA until 2020 provides for “four new electric vehicles”, he added.
In the first six months of 2016, the european market for electric cars has continued to grow until it exceeded the symbolic threshold of 50,000 enrolments, an increase of 11.3% in a year, according to figures from Avere.
globally, demand continues to be shy and according to the latest report from the International Energy Agency, in 2014 only 0.08% of vehicles used on the planet were electric.
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