VW EVs Outsell Tesla in Europe; Is an OTA Really a Recall? – Autoline Daily 3719

VW EVs Outsell Tesla in Europe; Is an OTA Really a Recall? – Autoline Daily 3719

This is autoline daily the show dedicated to enthusiasts of the global automotive industry most automakers selling light and medium duty vehicles in the US finally reported their sales for 2023 and here’s what the numbers look like they sold a total of 15.3 million Vehicles up 16% compared to 2022 and the

Year ended on a high note with December sales hitting assar or seasonally adjusted annual rate of 16.4 million which was at least a million units higher than analysts were forecasting and here’s the sales rankings by automaker General Motors top the list with Toyota surpassing Ford for second place amazingly the Hyundai group

Including Kia and Genesis is the fourth largest automaker in the American Market beating out stellantis and Honda Nissan came in seventh place with Tesla outselling Subaru in the Volkswagen group strangely Mercedes still hasn’t reported its 2023 sales but it probably wouldn’t change any of these rankings meanwhile in Europe sales of pure

Electric vehicles Rose 21% last year as Europeans bought 323,000 more bevs than they did in 2022 total beev sales went over over 1.8 million units and surprise surprise the Volkswagen group handily outsold Tesla the group including VW Audi scota seat and cpra but not Porsche sold over 358,000 bevs in Europe last year

Compared to 325,000 for Tesla while Tesla does not break out sales on a regional basis the website EU EVS collects owner registration ations which serves as a proxy for sales stellantis which includes pujo Opel croan voxhall and DS came in third place with 163,000 bevs the Hyundai group captured fourth

Place with 148,000 and Renault including dashia came in fifth place with 136,000 units it’s sometimes interesting to see how EV sales compare on a corporate basis and not just by brand or model byd may have passed Tesla and sales of pure electric vehicles in China in the fourth quarter of last year but

Tesla is still ahead when it comes to sales efficiency according to data from China Merchants Bank International during the first 10 months of 2023 Tesla sold more than 1,500 vehicles on average at its stores in China up from 1300 in 2022 byd on the other hand only sold 600

Cars per store including plug-in hybrids which was about the same as it did in 2022 Tesla’s realtime management of its sales staff is credited with giving it this Advantage it monitors its 2800 sales staff on an hourly basis to find out how good they are at bringing new customers into showrooms arranging test

Drives and placing orders the best staff can earn more than $4,200 a month plus bonuses which is much higher than its Rivals even so byd’s market share is growing faster than Tesla in China Tesla held a 12% share in the first 10 months of 2023 up from 10% in

2022 but byd share Grew From 21% in 2022 to 27% like the US the UK also posted its best year of new car salees since the pandemic according to the Society of motor manufacturers and Traders or smmt automakers sold more than 1.9 million Vehicles up nearly 18% from 2022 that includes nearly 315,000

Bevs which is more than the previous two years combined but while sales were up strong last year they’re still nearly 18% below pre pandemic mic levels and the smmt expects the first few months of this year to be Rocky for sales due to quote regulatory uncertainties regarding EU UK rules of

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Multi-gigabit see you at CES 2024 Las Vegas Convention Center in West Hall Booth 3666 or visit Intrepid cs.com sales Tesla is making headlines because it has to recall nearly every vehicle it’s ever sold in China but we wonder if it should really be called a recall when

All the issues can be fixed with an over-the-ear update China’s State ad Administration for Market regulation ruled that drivers can easily misuse the autopilot system which increases the safety risk the official wording of it all sounds very similar to what Nitsa said when it issued a recall on

Autopilot in North America last month Tesla voluntarily sent out an OTA that made autopilot alerts more noticeable simplified how the system is turned on and off and implemented a five strike penalty for those that ignore warnings it’s unclear if China will accept the same fixes and right now I’ve got many

Alarm Bells going off in my head the Chinese government has already expressed concerns about all the data captured by Tesla’s autopilot system Tesla set up a domestic Storage Center to make sure that data stays in the country as a way to help smooth things over but I still

Have some worry this could turn into something bigger a group of 33 senators all Democrats sent a letter to non-union car companies in the US including Tesla and rivan urging them to stay neutral with the UAW the letter comes after the UAW accused several companies of union busting activities which the automakers

Deny the letter says in part quote a neutrality agreement is the bare minimum standard manufacturers should meet in respecting workers rights especially as companies receive and benefit from federal funds related to the electric vehicle transition it also seems to imply that the Senate could cut Ira funding if a company does not allow

Collective bargaining for its workers we mostly agree that automakers should respect workers rights and stay neutral in Union organization but maybe someone should tell these politicians that they ought to be neutral and stay out of this too Sal of new energy vehicles or NS Rose 38% in China last year to nearly 9

Million units but car makers that struggled with N Sales and exports which was the other big growth sector in China were well off their targets for the year according to partial data released by the China passenger car Association 2third of Chinese automakers completely missed their sales goals for 2023 what’s

More only 8 two NE makers were able to sell at least one car which is down from 92 and it’s not going to get any easier as the competition heats up in the country many traditional automakers like Toyota have said they don’t plan on introducing EVS in developing markets

Because those countries don’t have the infrastructure to support them but byd is proving them wrong at least in Brazil the Chinese automaker was the top EV branded 2023 with nearly 18,000 Vehicles sold which includes its plug-in hybrids the dolphin EV helped fuel that growth it launched in Brazil in the middle of

2023 and sold nearly 7,000 units in 6 months overall more than 52,000 bevs and pabs were sold in Brazil last year nactoy which is an organization of 50 Automotive journalists from across the United States and Canada announced the winners for the best car truck in utility of the year the Toyota Prius

Including the Prius Prime was voted Car of the Year beating out the Honda Accord and Hyundai ionic 6 the Ford Superduty pickup line was voted truck of the year beating out the Chevrolet Colorado and Silverado EV and the Kia ev9 was voted utility of the Year beating out the

Genesis electrified gv70 and the Hyundai Kona EV here’s how Jeff Gilbert the president of NAC toys summed up this year’s voting so Jeff Gilbert president of Na toy what do you think of the the turnout the vote how everything came out today I think this was a great crosssection of

The North American vehicle Market think about this John you have a work truck you have an electric vehicle you have a hybrid talk about covering the gamut of what’s selling in the market here uh I couldn’t have planned it better any surprises to you uh yeah the one

Surprise I had was the uh the Prius winning I really was thinking the Accord was a nice midsize car and you know the ionx 6 was kind of a Dark Horse there because it’s a nice electric vehicle and we’ve been giving this award a lot for electric vehicles you know what the

Prius is also a justification for Toyota they’ve done great in recent years they’ve been finalist a lot of time I believe the only other Toyota to win this award in the past was the Prius before so it’s nice to see a lot of the the quality and the value of Toyota

Payoff real good I totally agree with you on the Prius being a surprise but kudos to them for winning it absolutely and you know what it does also think about it the last six months or so there’s just been this rumbling about hybrids there’s a lot of life left in

Them for the last four or five years Toyota’s been saying that so this kind of underscores something they’ve been saying for a while and that brings us to the end of today’s show thanks for tuning in and I hope that you have a great Weekend autoline daily is brought to you by Bridgestone solutions for your journey Intrepid control systems over-the-air engineering boost your game and by tajun Automotive Technologies the formula for better Mobility thean Automotive Technologies we combine worldclass Composite Materials expertise with cuttingedge designs because frankly there are better ways to lightweight

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0:00 U.S. 2023 Sales Hit 15.3 Million Units
1:14 VW Group EVs Outsell Tesla in EU
2:34 Tesla More Efficient Than BYD Selling Cars
3:56 UK Car Sales Best Since Covid Breakout
5:15 Is an OTA Really a Recall?
6:29 33 U.S. Senators Warn OEMs Over UAW
7:29 China Auto Industry Misses Sales Goals
8:11 BYD’s EVs Sell Well in Brazil
8:52 NACTOY Chooses Best Car, Truck, Utility

Story Links:
– U.S. Sales: https://www.autonews.com/sales/dec-us-auto-sales-hyundai-kia-set-records-market-comeback-rolls

– EU EV Sales: https://eu-evs.com/bestSellers/ALL/Brands/Year/2023

– Tesla Sales Efficiency in China: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-trumps-byd-china-sales-efficiency-with-real-time-strategy-2024-01-05/

– UK Car Sales: https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-records-best-year-new-car-sales-since-pandemic-smmt-2024-01-05/

– Tesla China Recall: https://carnewschina.com/2024/01/05/tesla-recalls-all-its-1-6-million-cars-in-china-but-its-just-ota-update/

– Senators Urge Non-Union Automakers to Stay Neutral on the UAW: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/senators-urge-tesla-12-other-automakers-remain-neutral-organizing-drives-2024-01-04/

– China Automakers Miss Sales Targets: https://www.autonews.com/china/china-automakers-fall-short-2023-sales-targets

– BYD Top EV Seller in Brazil: https://carnewschina.com/2024/01/05/byd-became-brazils-second-largest-ev-brand-in-2023/

– NACTOY Winners: https://northamericancaroftheyear.org/nactoy-2024-winners/

– To read the transcript for today’s show click here: https://www.autoline.tv/daily/ad-3719-vw-group-evs-outsell-tesla-in-eu-33-u-s-senators-warn-non-union-oems-over-uaw-is-an-ota-really-a-recall/

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