Hundreds of Thousands of EU Jobs at Risk in EV Shift; Cybertruck Big in China – Autoline Daily 3735
This is autoline daily the show dedicated to enthusiasts of the global automotive industry the shift to electric vehicles is going to result in hundreds of thousands of job losses in Europe a study from PWC commissioned by the European Association of Automotive suppliers forecast the loss of 359,000 jobs related to IC powertrains
Between 2030 and 2035 the EU plans to ban new IC vehicles in 2035 but there are some exemptions for vehicles that run on synthetic fuel however the study says that jumps to over 500,000 job losses if the EU goes with a strict EV approach the EV push will create around
226,000 EV related jobs but that still means there’s going to be a net loss of 275,000 jobs at that at higher estimate so to help cushion the blow the Auto industry is calling on EU lawmakers to provide more funding and training programs to transition from Icees to Eves the Volkswagen group has stumbled
In China and continues to try and find its footing in 2019 it sold 4.2 million Vehicles there last year that dropped to 3.2 million the problem VW has not kept up with the r rapid transition to EVS in the Chinese market last year it only sold 155,000 EVS to Chinese customers so to
Try and catch up fast it’s buying Chinese technology Volkswagen will use an electronic architecture from XP pun while Audi is buying an Eevee platform from saic and the electric Porsche Maan will use batteries from catl to try and streamline its decisionmaking Volkswagen is cutting its Board of management from
Eight members to seven the board member it’s cutting is Thomas olrick who was then appointed to vw’s new CTO for China and China is a critical market for the Volkswagen group still accounting for roughly 50% of its sales in 40% of its profits so unless it stops the slide
There it’s going to really hurt the company while this is a big black eye for Toyota the automaker announced it suspending global shipments of 10 diesel powered vehicles because it discovered certification irregularities with the engines they were built by Toyota Industries corporation which is part of the Toyota group the models include its
High a Vans hux pickups for tuner SUVs enema minivans the Land Cruiser and the Lexus LX the vehicles are sold in Japan Europe Asia Africa and the Middle East and this is hugely embarrassing for the company as it doesn’t like to be seen as breaking the law CEO coji Sato even
Bowed an apology before addressing the media on the issue but this isn’t an isolated incident at Toyota the automaker is also in hot water for similar problems at its dihatu in Hino subsidiaries China is slowly but surely making progress on Robo taxis but they have eyes at dominating the market
And now Chinese autonomous startup Auto X has received approval to test its Vehicles without a safety driver on public roads in the city of guango Auto X also operates driverless vehicles in three other cities in China as well as in Silicon Valley in the US the company
Is aiming to deploy a fleet of level four Robo taxis in the future and we find it interesting that it’s using Chrysler pacificas and not a vehicle from a Chinese automak we want to know what drives your testing OTA connected car Diagnostics remote testing Intrepid Control Systems is here
To help you work from anywhere Intrepid Control Systems driven by your data Chinese consumers are going Gaga for Tesla’s cybertruck car news China reports that Tesla has officially kicked off a tour of the Cyber truck in the country and that at least one location
Had a line over 2 hours long just to see the truck but Elon Musk has previously said it would be difficult to get the cyber truck road legal in China and there’s currently no word if it will sell it in the country this is likely related to a ban of pickups from cities
Which was first implemented in 2000 as a way to curb pollution and traffic however a number of big cities have started to lift those banss and China sells about half a million pickups every year year Ford even exports the F-150 Raptor there but it could be that sales
Volume is not enough to justify bringing the Cyber truck to China in mus eye so he could be trying to get around classifying the Cyber truck as a pickup the same report says Tesla has been calling the cybertruck a quote off-road Adventure vehicle in promotions in the country speaking of Tesla it’s investing
$500 million into a dojo supercomputer at its gigafactory in New York Dojo was designed and built for computer vision video processing and recognition to train its machine learning models so it can improve full self-driving but the efforts could fall flat on their face on its most recent earnings call Elon mus
Called Dojo a long shot that doesn’t have a high probability of success but he said it’s a long shot worth taking because the payoff could be high even so it looks like Tesla is going to rely more heavily on a supplier to build supercomputers that help train its AI
System mus says Tesla will probably spend more than that $500 million on Hardware from Nvidia this year and that to be competitive in AI you have to spend at least several billion dollars a year Chinese automakers are boldly going where traditional automakers don’t dare go at least with electric cars while
Traditional automakers say South America isn’t ready for EVS that’s not stopping byd it bought an assembly plant in Brazil to make EVS including police cars an autoline viewer Eduardo a aeto and sorry if I pronounced your name wrong got these pictures of byd police cars in
Rio de Janeiro and maybe this shows that there are big cities in South America that are absolutely ready to go electric and by the the way we get great tips from our viewers from all around the world so if you spot something that you think we ought to be aware of send it
Our way Volvo trucks is launching an all new lineup of long haulers that ride on an all new platform it allows for a wide range of Powertrain types including Bev fuel cell IC and IC that run on renewable fuels like hydrogen it will also incorporate a 24volt electronic architecture
And efficiency improvements of 5 to 10% depending on the type of truck in North America Volvo trucks launch the allnew vnl while Europe Australia and markets in Asia get the allnew VH and have you ever wondered why big trucks look different in the US and Europe well there’s restrictions in Europe to Total
Vehicle length so if you had a US style semi in Europe it would have to have a shorter trailer so that’s why what is called a cabover design is so popular in the EU and that brings us to the end of today’s show thanks for tuning In autoline Daily is brought to you by Bridgestone solutions for your journey Intrepid control systems over-the-air engineering boost your game and by tun Automotive Technologies the formula for better Mobility with the tan Automotive Technologies we combine world-class Composite Materials expertise with cuttingedge designs because frankly there are better ways to
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0:00 EV Shift to Cause Thousands of Job Losses in EU
1:13 VW Takes Action to Stop Slide in China
2:24 Toyota Suspends Shipments Of 10 Diesel Models
3:22 AutoX Expands Robotaxi Operations in China
4:18 Tesla Cybertruck Generates Big Buzz in China
5:25 Musk Says Dojo a Long Shot but Worth the Risk
6:23 Rio Adds BYD EVs To Police Fleet
7:09 Volvo Trucks Launches New Lineup
Story Links:
– Lots of EU Jobs at Risk: https://www.wardsauto.com/industry-news/switch-electric-vehicles-disrupting-workforces-worldwide
– VW Appoints New CTO in China: https://autonews.gasgoo.com/china_news/70031001.html
– Toyota Stops Shipping 10 Diesel Models: https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/corporate/40376368.html
– AutoX Expands Robotaxi Service: https://autonews.gasgoo.com/icv/70030992.html
– Tesla Cybertruck Big in China: https://carnewschina.com/2024/01/29/tesla-cybertruck-generates-massive-interest-in-china-despite-sales-restrictions/
– Tesla Building Dojo Supercomputer in New York: https://electrek.co/2024/01/26/tesla-announces-dojo-supercomputer-new-york/
– Volvo Trucks Launches New Lineup: https://www.volvotrucks.com/en-en/news-stories/press-releases/2024/jan/volvo-launches-new-trucks-worldwide-future-proofing-its-product-portfolio.html
– To read the transcript for today’s show click here: https://www.autoline.tv/daily/ad-3735-ev-shift-to-cost-thousands-of-jobs-in-eu-cybertruck-generates-big-buzz-in-china-vw-takes-action-to-stop-slide-in-china/
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