AD #4149 - OEMs Step Up to Replace EV Incentives; U.S. Market Share Winners and Losers; BYD's Sales Drop

Speaker 1: This is Autoline Daily, the show dedicated to enthusiasts of the global automotive industry. Sales of evs hit a record

twelve point two percent market share in the US last month.

Speaker 2: According to JD Power.

Speaker 1: General Motors alone sold sixty six thousand, five hundred evs for the third quarter, and it may have even posted an operating profit at that scale. But with federal subsidies

for evs going away, everyone is sure that sales of electrics will now fall through the floor, but it may not happen right away.

Speaker 2: There are about one hundred.

Speaker 1: And thirty four thousand evs sitting on dealer lots right now, and dealers and automakers will continue to offer some kind of incentives to move those vehicles. As we reported earlier

this week, GM and Ford made down payments for leases on evs that their dealers have an inventory, which qualified them at the last minute for the seventy five hundred dollars federal rebates.

Speaker 2: Nissans says it will be cutting deals on.

Speaker 1: Its EV's two and you can add Hyundai to the list.

It says all twenty twenty five IONIC five still in inventory will continue to qualify for a seventy five hundred dollars cash incentive whether it's leased or purchased, while twenty twenty six model year Ionic fives, which are already in production, don't qualify for the cash rebate. The company is significantly

cutting prices. A base twenty twenty six Ionic five will

now start at thirty six thousand, six hundred dollars, down from over forty four grand, while other versions are getting nearly ten grand off the sticker price. The company says

these changes are part of a broader strategy to keep the Ionic brand competitive in the EV market while responding to shifting consumer expectations and growing pressure from competition. And

speaking of Hyundai evs, it's slashing the Kona EV lineup.

The model is going from four trim lines and two battery options to just one trim and one battery. It

will only be available in the se trim for twenty twenty six and with the smaller forty eight point six kilowad hour battery pack, which delivers two hundred miles of range on the EPA test. The previous model year was

also available with the nearly sixty five kilowad hour battery that offered up to two hundred and sixty one miles of range. While Hyundai hasn't announced pricing yet, the se

trim previously started at about thirty four thousand, five hundred bucks.

Stillantis is looking to cut costs everywhere at Ken in order to save cash, and Bloomberg reports that the automaker is considering selling its ride sharing business.

Speaker 2: Free to Move.

Speaker 1: The company has reached out to potential buyers, but the discussions are in the early stages and a decision to sell hasn't been made yet. Free to Move launched in

twenty sixteen, and it currently operates in sixteen cities around the world, including Washington, d C, Paris, and Berlin. In

another way Stilantis is cutting costs is scaling back its evy plans. The automaker already scrapped the all electric RAM

pickup truck and the plug in version of the Jeep Gladiator, and now mopar Insiders reports that the range topping version of the electric Dodge charger Daytona is being axed. The

model was going to feature an eight hundred volt architecture and was expected.

Speaker 2: To deliver more than one thousand horse power.

Speaker 1: The electric charger currently on sale uses a four hundred volt platform and delivers six hundred and seventy horse power, but it's not too surprising that the high performance version is being canceled. Through the first nine months of the year,

Dodge has sold just over seven thousand electric chargers. The

big problem with internal combustion engines is that they run on gas leaner diesel and can emit massive amounts of CO two.

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Speaker 1: Byd is the juggernaut of the Chinese auto industry, and it's the benchmarking target of virtually every other car company in the world, but it just posted its first monthly drop in sales in eighteen months. The automakers sold more

than three and ninety six thousand vehicles in September, but that was down five and a half percent from a year ago. BYD somewhat recently cut its sales forecast for

the year by sixteen percent to four point six million vehicles.

An Analysts from Morgan Stanley estimate that the automaker needs to sell an average of four hundred and forty seven thousand vehicles per month in the fourth quarter to reach its full year target, so BYD really needs to pick up the pace if it's going to hit its goal.

Speaker 2: When the EU slapped import tariffs.

Speaker 1: On Chinese evs, it wasn't long before Chinese automakers started looking for local manufacturing opportunities so they could start avoiding those tariffs. Since then, we've seen other countries like Brazil

and Mexico start slapping their own terraffs and restrictions on Chinese imports, so Chinese automakers once again are looking into local manufacturing. Bloomberg reports that Cherry is in talks with

renaulta manufacture and sell vehicles in South America. Discussions include

Cherry building combustion engine cars and Renault's planting Columbia, which would also be rebadged as Renault's, and to make Cherry branded plug in hybrid trucks at Renault's factory in Argentina.

The report says Cherry would fund the entire project as well.

Renault has a similar deal with Gili and Brazil, but it said any partnership with Cherry would not have an impact on its other projects. About a decade ago, the

auto industry hit peak sales. Since then, car sales in

all major markets of the world have stopped growing. So

how do you grow your company when the market isn't growing.

You go for market share, and that's where we're at right now, in a market share war. We've got the

latest market share projections for the US from Cox Automotive, and this very simply describes who's winning and who's losing.

So far this year, General Motors has gained the most market share, up six percent, followed by the Hyundai Group up five point three percent, Toyota was up four point eight percent, BMW up four point six percent, and Ford was up three percent. Honda and Mazda were flat with

no change. So now we get to who those other

automakers are stealing from. The biggest losers so far this

year are Mercedes Benz down thirteen percent, Tesla which is down twelve and a half percent, the Volkswagen Group down twelve point one percent, Stilantis dropped twelve percent, subarup went down four point seven percent, and Nissan Mitsubishi are down three percent.

Speaker 2: And here's a tip.

Speaker 1: If you're shopping for a new car, all those names on the loser list, they're probably gonna have the best deals. Hey,

what is it about car companies and lunar rovers? Toyota, Honda, Hondi, Kiya, Nissan,

and Audi have all shown concept drawings or crude prototypes of a lunar rover. Now, as NASA plans to go

back to the Moon, it's running a contest to see who can come up with a new lunar rover. It's

awarded contracts to three groups, and one of those is General Motors, which will develop the battery and power systems as well as the chassis, suspension, steering, and autonomous features.

Speaker 2: GM wants to use.

Speaker 1: Nickel cobalt manganese aluminum batteries that will last a decade and deliver thirty thousand kilometers of driving or about nineteen thousand miles. One of the rover's tasks is to map

the Moon's surface wherever it drives, so it can then offer autonomous driving. And this is sort of history repeating

itself because General Motors was involved in developing NASA's original lunar rover back in the nineteen seventies. And that wraps

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