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BYD announced on April 3 that it would officially stop producing fuel vehicles, becoming the first traditional car company in the world to announce the cessation of fuel vehicle production. With the development of new energy models and increasingly stringent emission regulations around the world, traditional car companies have also successively issued their own fuel vehicle ban time nodes, and began to vigorously layout new energy models. Among them, the German brand is also the first to bear the brunt, today we will take stock of when the German brand car companies are ready to start banning the sale of fuel models, and the current progress to what extent.
Volkswagen: In 2035, Europe will ban the sale of fuel vehicles
In June 2021, Klaus Zelmer, then Director of Sales of Volkswagen, revealed in an interview with foreign media that Volkswagen plans to withdraw from the European internal combustion engine car business between 2033 and 2035 and vigorously develop pure electric vehicles, achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 at the latest. However, this decision is only for the European market, and the time node of North America and The Chinese market will be slightly later. And said the ban dates in South America and Africa will be longer, mainly because local policies and infrastructure are not ready for electric vehicles. At the beginning of last year, Volkswagen announced that it would stop the research and development of new internal combustion engines.
Klaus Zelmer, then sales director of Volkswagen, revealed that Volkswagen will stop selling fuel vehicles in Europe by 2035 at the latest, and then fully produce and sell pure electric models in Europe.
Volkswagen is also indeed as it says, in the Chinese market, Volkswagen decided to cut the production of traditional fuel vehicles to 60% by 2030. From this time planning point of view, in the next 10 years of Volkswagen's Chinese market, although there will be fewer and fewer fuel vehicles, it will not be completely discontinued.
In fact, Volkswagen has long begun to electrify the layout, in 2015 Volkswagen released the e-Golf pure electric model, this car is based on the Golf model to build the "oil to electricity" model. At this time, Volkswagen has released a new MEB pure electric platform, and then in December 2020, Volkswagen e-Golf officially stopped production, making way for the latest product ID.3 based on the Volkswagen MEB platform. At present, Volkswagen currently has ID.4 and ID.BUZZ for upcoming mass production in the European market, in addition to the ID.3 that has already been mentioned.
In the domestic market, Volkswagen has also introduced ID.3 and ID.4 models, and the ID.4 models are put into production in FAW-Volkswagen and SAIC Volkswagen respectively, and Volkswagen has also launched a special ID.6 model in the Chinese market, which is also put into production in the "North and South" Volkswagen. In addition to the models built based on the MEB platform, Volkswagen has also launched pure electric models such as Golf Pure Electric, Bora Pure Electric, Langyi Electric Version, Tuyue Pure Electric Edition in the Chinese market, as well as plug-in hybrid models such as Tiguan L PHEV, Passat PHEV, Maiteng GTE Plug-in Hybrid, Tanyue GTE Plug-in Hybrid and imported Volkswagen Touareg eHbrid.
Summary: In the face of different markets, Volkswagen has different time nodes for banning fuel vehicles, but from the perspective of the release timeline, Volkswagen should still hope that fuel vehicles will survive for a longer time, and the sale of fuel vehicles in Europe in 2035 is mainly because the European Union has set a ban on the sale of time nodes, and Volkswagen can only naturally comply. At present, there is no clear domestic fuel vehicles when the sale of fuel vehicles will be banned, so Volkswagen will only reduce the production of traditional fuel vehicles, but it is not excluded that with the introduction of the policy, Volkswagen will adjust its sales strategy in China at any time.
Audi: Discontinue the sale of fuel vehicles in 2033 Except for the Chinese market
As a subsidiary of Volkswagen, Audi also announced at the beginning of 2021 that it will stop the development of internal combustion engines, and in 2025, the Audi brand will launch its last new fuel model. Shortly thereafter, Audi officially announced that it would stop selling fuel vehicles in 2033.
According to this plan, starting from 2026, Audi's new models for the global market will be fully switched to pure electric products, and no new fuel vehicles will be launched, and even hybrid models will not be considered, and its models will be 80% electrified; by 2028, Audi will completely transform the pure electric vehicle brand; Audi RS sports department will complete the electrification upgrade and transformation in 2030. By 2030, Audi aims to fully offer high-performance electric and plug-in hybrid models. By 2033, Audi plans to phase out production of internal combustion engines, with the goal of achieving zero carbon emissions by 2050 at the latest.
Audi plans to significantly expand its lineup of all-electric models, including the new Audi e-tron GT, Audi RS e-tron GT, Audi Q4 e-tron and Audi Q4 Sportback e-tron, with Audi aiming to have more than 20 electric models in its product spectrum by 2025.
However, Audi expects that after 2033, the demand for fuel models in the Chinese market may continue to exist, so Audi may continue to provide locally produced fuel models in the Chinese market.
Summary: There are still 11 years left before Audi completely shut down the internal combustion locomotive in 2033, although Audi will not stop selling fuel vehicles in the domestic market, but as a new energy country, Audi's new electric models are still expected to be sold in China. From the existing product planning, Audi's "e-tron" series models will undoubtedly become the main force of the future.
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Mercedes-Benz: The European Union is forcing the sale of fuel vehicles to stop in 2035
In July 2021, Mercedes-Benz unveiled its latest strategic plan for electric power. Mercedes-Benz said that in the case of market conditions permitting, in 2030 to fully transform to pure electrification, at the latest 2035 Mercedes-Benz will stop selling fuel vehicles in the Eu. However, Mercedes-Benz officially did not clearly propose when to stop selling fuel vehicles, mainly need to take into account the market acceptance problem, as to whether it can stop selling fuel vehicles in 2035 still needs to be gradually confirmed.
As for why Mercedes-Benz has set the time for 2030 to 2035, it is mainly because the EU has proposed a "Fit for 55" proposal, which aims to reduce EU greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030, and reduce the carbon emissions of new cars sold in Europe by 100% by 2035, that is, only pure electric vehicles can be sold. Between 2022 and 2030, Mercedes-Benz will invest a total of more than 40 billion euros in the field of pure electric vehicles.
Last year, Mercedes-Benz released a newly developed pure electric platform - electric vehicle architecture (Electric Vehicle Architecture) referred to as the EVA platform, which mainly builds medium and large pure electric vehicles. At present, the EQS that has recently been listed in China is from the Tai platform, and the EQE that will be domestically produced this year will also be born on this platform, and the follow-up platform will also give birth to EQE SUV and EQS SUV models.
In terms of electrification of the product lineup, Mercedes-Benz plans to increase the proportion of plug-in hybrid and pure electric models to 50% by 2025; by 2030, the market allows for fully pure electric. At present, Mercedes-Benz electric product lineup has included 6 models, namely EQA, EQB, EQC, EQE, EQS and EQV. With the introduction of EQS SUVs, EQE SUVs and EQTs, the number of pure electric models will increase to 9. At the same time, the high-performance AMG series will also be fully electrified.
In China, Mercedes-Benz has launched pure electric models such as Mercedes-Benz EQA, EQB, EQS, EQC SUVs, as well as E-class plug-in hybrids, GLE plug-in hybrid models. This year, it is expected that EQE will also be sold domestically by Beijing Benz, when Mercedes-Benz's pure electric models in China will reach 5 models.
Summary: At present, Mercedes-Benz announced the full transformation to electrification. Although Mercedes-Benz has already made plans, it is still uncertain when to stop selling fuel vehicles and whether they can achieve the suspension of fuel vehicles in 2035. Mercedes-Benz has not yet determined the time node of the ban in China, and from the current information, the time for domestic suspension of fuel vehicles is expected to be later than in Europe.
BMW: Ready to stop selling in 2030
BMW originally planned that by 2030, half of the vehicles produced worldwide will be pure electric vehicles, the carbon emissions of bicycles throughout the life cycle will be reduced by 40%, and the carbon emissions of vehicles in the use phase will be reduced to half of 2019. But with the EU's "Fit for 55" proposal, BMW had to move the electrification process forward. Last October, BMW Chairman Oliver Zipse said at a conference in Nieltingen, Germany: "The BMW Group is ready to deal with the ban on the sale of fuel vehicles from 2030. ”
BMW has not clearly set a date for the sale of fuel vehicles until now, in fact, from BMW's product planning, it can be seen that BMW still adheres to the strategy of fuel vehicles, plug-in hybrids and pure electric vehicles. Moreover, when other manufacturers announced that they would stop developing new engines, BMW even did the opposite, announcing the development of the next generation of engines, and the 6-cylinder and 8-cylinder will not be absent, which is obviously incompatible with the current trend of vigorously developing electrification.
Although BMW is still sticking to the internal combustion engine, the electrification trend has been unavoidable, so the BMW Group will launch 25 new energy models in 2025 according to the plan, in addition to i3, iX3, i4, iX and the future MINI electric version, which is expected to reach 12 models in 2025. There is also no ambiguity in terms of plug-in hybrid, and by 2025 BMW will have at least 13 plug-in hybrid models, but the specific model has not been disclosed.
At present, BMW has a total of 4 electric vehicles and 3 plug-in hybrid models on sale in China, of which i3, i4 and iX are new cars that have just been listed, and the iX3 is expected to be a relatively large upgrade this year. In addition, BMW's flagship electric sedan i7 will also be officially listed this year, when BMW's pure electric camp in China will be further expanded.
Summary: BMW obviously has some doubts about whether the EU's "Fit for 55" proposal can be implemented, so it has not completely abandoned fuel vehicles, but fuel, pure electricity, plug and mix at the same time. From the current point of view, BMW is obviously more comprehensive, ready for any situation, but not one-size-fits-all.
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