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15 maart 2023 22:24 |
BYD mogelijk naar Duitsland?
BYD plant een fabriek in Europa, de Ford-fabriek in Saarlouis (Saarland) is een kanshebber. Ford is blijkbaar "aggressief" aan het verhandelen over een overnameprijs. Ze hebben natuurlijk ook snel geschikte werknemers nodig.
(BYD is ook volgens Musk de grootste concurrent van Tesla)
Maar het is niet alleen Duitsland die om de gunst van BYD vecht ook andere landen Frankrijk, Spanje, Polen en Hongarije geven het nog niet op.
Bron Financial Times: (UK valt alweer uit de boot door Brexit, zelfs niet in de top 10 voorselectie zaten ze...)
Citaat:
https://www.ft.com/content/a38acb75-...3-d4e880748986 MARCH 12 2023
China’s BYD blames Brexit as it rules out UK for Europe car plant
World’s largest seller of electric and hybrid cars sets out plans to dominate region by 2030
The world’s largest seller of electric and hybrid cars has ruled out building its first European car factory in the UK because of Brexit.
China’s BYD has set out ambitious plans to dominate the region’s electric vehicle market this decade, aiming to account for one in 10 battery cars sold by 2030, and wanting to be among the top three EV brands in Europe.
But its European president Michael Shu said the UK did not even make the top 10 possible locations for its first European plant, with a shortlist of sites in Germany, France, Spain, Poland and Hungary.
“As an investor we want a country to be stable. To open a factory?.?.?.?is a decision for decades,” he told the Financial Times.
“Without Brexit, maybe. But after Brexit, we don’t understand what happened,” he added. “The UK doesn’t have a very good solution. Even on the long list we didn’t have the UK.”
The group, backed by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, wants to raise sales to about 800,000 models in Europe by 2030, with at least one car manufacturing facility in the region. It already makes buses in the region.
The UK has struggled to attract investment from new electric vehicle companies, with Tesla also citing Brexit for its decision to bypass Britain in favour of Germany.
Additionally, several established carmakers in the UK are facing crucial decisions over their plants this year.
BYD, which stands for “build your dreams” and began developing batteries in 1995, is planning a global sales drive in pure electric vehicles. It has set a target of becoming India’s second-largest EV seller within a year.
The company believes that a vertically integrated model, where it makes most parts of the vehicle and completely controls the electronics and battery systems, sets it apart from other carmakers that buy in technology.
In Europe, BYD is looking at both new sites and existing plants to gain a foothold in the region’s “very competitive” car industry, Shu said.
One option is to purchase Ford’s Saarlouis plant in Germany. Shu said the US carmaker was being “very aggressive” in its negotiations, though the two sides have “good communications”.?*
A decision is likely this year, with the aim of producing its first vehicles as early as 2025.
The company has sites in China capable of producing more than 1mn vehicles a year and the company may well decide to develop a single megasite in the region to meet its short term needs.
BYD is one of a handful of Chinese carmakers that are hoping to use electric vehicles to break into Europe’s fiercely competitive car market.
It has launched three models in Europe in a handful of markets including Norway and Germany.
It has launched the Atto3 in the UK, a compact sport utility vehicle that is the first model to use its new electric skateboard system that integrates the battery directly into the frame of the vehicle to increase efficiency.
The car is already sold in India and in China, where it has been the biggest selling compact SUV.
The company will run a pilot?*scheme for its own charging network, because of the “terrible” state of the current infrastructure, Shu said.
Its pilot system will include using static batteries to store energy, allowing them to charge cars quickly without the need for expensive high speed connections to the National Grid.
Shu added: “This is different to the [Tesla] supercharger because Tesla is close to the grid, but we are close to the customer.”
The company has teamed up with existing dealer companies to roll out showrooms across the region, believing this is a better way to reach customers than the direct sales model favoured by Tesla.
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Of ook deze link:
Citaat:
https://teslamag.de/news/elektroauto...k-europa-57304
Weltweit ist der chinesische Hersteller BYD bei reinen Elektroautos die Nummer 2 hinter Tesla, doch in Europa zählt er trotz einer im vergangenen Jahr begonnenen Expansion noch zu den unbedeutenden Anbietern. Das soll sich allerdings ändern – bis 2030 sollen die Verkäufe in der Region auf rund 800.000 Einheiten steigen. Dazu will BYD auch mindestens eine eigene Elektroauto-Fabrik in Europa aufbauen. Und die könnte wie die europäische Gigafactory von Tesla in Deutschland stehen, denn die Bundesrepublik befindet sich als eines von nur noch fünf Ländern in der letzten Auswahl-Liste.
BYD braucht Tesla-Geschwindigkeit
Darauf konkurriert Deutschland noch mit Frankreich, Polen, Spanien und Ungarn, wie der Europa-Präsident von BYD, Michael Shu, der Financial Times sagte. In Frage kämen sowohl neue Standorte als auch die Übernahme einer bestehenden Fabrik. Dazu war schon bekannt, dass es Verhandlungen mit Ford über das Werk im Saarland gibt, für das sich auch andere Unternehmen interessieren sollen. Zum aktuellen Stand sagte Shu nur allgemein, Ford verhandele sehr aggressiv, aber die Kommunikation sei gut.
Laut dem FT-Bericht soll die Entscheidung über den europäischen Fabrik-Standort von BYD in diesem Jahr fallen – und das Ziel sei, dort schon im Jahr 2025 die ersten Elektroautos zu produzieren. Bei der Umsetzung würde also schon jetzt praktisch Tesla-Geschwindigkeit benötigt: Nach der Bekanntgabe des Gigafactory-Standorts im deutschen Grünheide im November 2019 dauerte es knapp zweieinhalb Jahre, bis dort die Produktion des Model Y begann.
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