The shift to electric vehicles in Europe threatens to cut hundreds of thousands of jobs, prompting calls for government support in retraining workers. Volkswagen struggles in China’s fast-moving EV market, acquiring local tech and restructuring its leadership to regain momentum. Toyota suspends shipments of diesel models due to certification issues, while Chinese startup AutoX advances driverless robotaxi testing. Tesla’s Cybertruck draws huge interest in China despite regulatory hurdles, and the company invests heavily in AI supercomputing. Meanwhile, Chinese automaker BYD pushes EV adoption in South America, and Volvo Trucks unveils a versatile new platform supporting multiple powertrains.
Topics:job losses from ev shiftvolkswagen china strategytoyota diesel certification issueautonomous robotaxis chinatesla cybertruck china buzztesla dojo supercomputerbyd ev expansion south americavolvo trucks new platform
- EV Shift to Cause Thousands of Job Losses in EU - VW Takes Action to Stop Slide in China - Toyota Suspends Shipments Of 10 Diesel Models - AutoX Expands Robotaxi Operations in China - Tesla Cybertruck Generates Big Buzz in China - Musk Says Dojo a Long Shot but Worth the Risk - Rio Adds BYD EVs To Police Fleet - Volvo Trucks Launches New Lineup
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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 forecasts the loss of three hundred and fifty nine thousand jobs related to IC powertrains between twenty thirty and twenty thirty five. The EU plans to ban new
ice vehicles in twenty thirty five, but there are some exemptions for vehicles that run on synthetic fuel. However, the study says that jumps to over five
hundred thousand job losses if the EU goes with a strict EV approach. The
EV push will create around two hundred and twenty six thousand EV related jobs, but that still means there's going to be a net loss of two hundred and seventy five thousand jobs at that 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 ices to EV's. The Volkswagen Group has stumbled in China
and continues to try and find its footing. In twenty nineteen, it sold
four point two million vehicles there. Last year that dropped a three point two
million. The problem VW has not kept up with the rapid transition to EV's
in the Chinese market. Last year it only sold one hundred and fifty five
thousand evs to Chinese customers. So to try and catch up fast, it's
buying Chinese technology. Volkswagen will use an electronic architecture from XPUNK, while Audi
is buying an EV platform from SAIC and the electric Porsche MACN will use batteries from CATL. To try and streamline its decision making, Volkswagen is cutting its
board of management from eight members to seven. The board member its cutting is
Thomas Ulbrick, 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 fifty percent of its sales and forty percent 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 its suspending global shipments of ten 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 Aise Vans, High Lux pickups for Tuner SUVs in a Mavidi Vans, the land Cruiser and the Lexus LX. The vehicles are sold
in Japan, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East and this is hugely for the company as it doesn't like to be seen as breaking the law.
CEO Coogisato even bowed in 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 Daihatsu in Hinos subsidiaries. China is slowly but
surely making progress on robotaxis, 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 Guangzhou. 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
robotaxis in the future, and we find it interesting that it's using Chrysler Pacifica's and not a vehicle from a Chinese automaker. We want to know what drives
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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 two 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 two thousand as a way to curb pollution and traffic. However, a number of big cities have started
to lift those bands, and China sells about half a million pickups every year.
Ford even exports the F one to fifty raptor there. But it could
be that sales volume is not enough to justify bringing the cyber truck to China in Must's i, so he could be trying to get around classifying the cyber truck as a pickup. The same report says Tesla has been calling the cyber
truck a quote off road adventure vehicle in promotions in the country. Speaking of
Tesla, it's investing five hundred million dollars 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 Musk called Dojo a long shot that doesn't have a high probability of success, but he said it's a long shot we're 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. Must says Tesla will probably spend more than that five hundred million dollars
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 auto line viewer Aduardo as a veto and sorry if I pronounced your name wrong, got these pictures of BYD police cars and Rio dejian Airo, and maybe this shows that there are big cities in South America that are absolutely ready to go electric. And by 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. Valvo 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 ices that run on renewable fuels like hydrogen. It will
also incorporate a twenty four volt electronic architecture and efficiency improvements of five to ten percent depending on the type of truck. In North America, Valvo Trucks launched
the all new VNL, while Europe, Australia and markets in Asia get the all new VH. And have you ever wondered why big trucks look different in
the US and Europe? While 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 hab over design
is so popular in the EU. And that brings us to the end of
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