AD #4188 - Mercedes AMG GT Shows Off Axial Flux Motors; RIP Bollinger Motors; Republicans Target U.S. Safety Standards
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Speaker 1: This is ouderlying daily, the show dedicated to enthusiasts of the global automotive industry. Do you remember that crazy axial
flux motor from a company called Yasa that only weighs twenty eight pounds but makes seven hundred and fifty kilowatts or just over one thousand horse power. If you do,
you may also remember that Mercedes bought Yasa in twenty twenty one, and now Mercedes is showing off the first prototype that will use axial flux or what are also called pancake motors. This is the Mercedes AMGGT four or Coop,
a preview of a new high performance EV that will be revealed next year, and a model that will feature three axial flux motors as well as direct battery cooling.
The magnets and coils inside an axial flux motor are much closer together and there's a much larger surface area for them to interact. That leads to impressive power density
like a thousand plus horse power. However, Yasa estimates the
continuous power output would be more in the range of three hundred and fifty to four hundred kilowatts, which is roughly four hundred and seventy to five hundred and thirty five horse power. But with three of these motors on tap,
the new Mercedes AMG, GT Ford or Coup should offer some pretty impressive performance. Eve's startup, Bollinger Motors, is officially dead.
The company, which made chassis cab trucks and also developed a boxy pick up an suv, officially closed its doors last Friday. Bollinger was struggling to meet payroll. It's been
sued by at least six suppliers for five million bucks in overdue bills, and the company's founder, Robert Bollinger, who left the company, is suing to get back the ten million dollars he loaned to it. Bollinger's parent company, Bollinger Innovations,
which was formerly called Mullen Automotive, is still operating. However,
it was delisted from the Nasdaq last month month because its stock dropped below a dollar per share. The Audi
Q three is getting a big price hike in the US.
The next gen version goes on sale in the first quarter next year with a starting price just under forty five thousand dollars, or three nine hundred dollars more than the previous model. The new Q three offers better technology
and more power than the outgoing one, which explains some of the price increase, but it's built in Hungary, which means it gets slapped with the US tariffs. The price
hike comes at a bad time for the Q three.
Sales are already down sixteen percent so far this year, and the Q three is Audi's second best selling model in the US. Sales and evs and all of Europe
last month were up nearly thirty three percent, but Tesla continues to get hammered in the region. The company registered
less than seven thousand vehicles in October, a drop of nearly fifty percent compared to last year. Meanwhile, BYD's registrations
in Europe were up over two hundred and six percent last month. Obviously, it sells more than just evs, and
we bet Chinese automakers are a big part of the reason why p have sales shot up over forty percent compared to last year. More than one hundred and sixteen thousand,
five hundred plug in hybrids were sold in Europe in October, which is also a big deal because PEA has have now outsold diesels through the first ten months of the year.
A first for Europe. Republicans in the US Congress are
getting ready to attack safety standards on cars. They're blaming
regulations for the high cost of cars. Affordability has become
a political buzzword for both Republicans and Democrats, and each party is trying to claim the moral high ground. Senate
Republicans say automatic emergency breaking and seat belt reminders for backseat passes are ineffective. They're arguing in favor of autonomous
driving instead. Here's our autoline insight. It's true that traffic
fatalities in the US are now significantly higher than they were before knits a mandated electronic stability control, backup cameras, forward collision warning, and automated emergency braking. But everyone seems
to be missing the easiest solution possible, V to V technology.
Vehicle to vehicle technology is already on the shelf. It's inexpensive,
and it can make it almost impossible for cars to crash into each other.
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Speaker 1: China's autowindustry is formidable on so many levels, except for two glaring flaws. It's struggling with massive overcapacity and hardly
any automakers are profitable. Li Auto, one of the few
Chinese automakers that had made money, is now in the red as sales found nearly forty percent in the last quarter and short sellers smell blood. Leato's stock is down
twenty percent this year, and the shorts are sure it's going to drop even more. The number of shares being
shorted is at an all time high. Europe is another
major market with too much manufacturing capacity, and it could get worse. Great While Motors is reportedly looking for a
manufacturing site in Europe to build three hundred thousand cars a year, and BYD is already looking for a third European manufacturing site. At the same time, the traditional European
manufacturing plants are operating well below capacity. For example, Fiat
is launching a hybrid version of the five hundred at its mire Fiori plant in Italy. Back in the nineteen sixties,
that plant made a million cars a year, but Fiat only plans to make one hundred thousand Fiat five hundreds there next year. The Chinese are also making significant inroads
in South America. Leep Motor just launched operations in Brazil
and Chile this month, with plans to sell both fully electric and extended range evs. As part of its partnership
with Stilantis, Leep Motor will use Stlantis's dealer network in after sales system, which includes Fiat Pougeot, Citrone and Jeep and BYD's plant in Brazil has now built ten thousand vehicles.
It has the capacity to produce one hundred and fifty thousand vehicles a year, and is currently making the Dolphin EV and plug in hybrid versions of the song Pro and King models. BYD plans to increase the plant's capacity
to six hundred thousand units a year, which would make it the company's largest plant outside of China. Well, happy
birthday to us. We just got a reminder from YouTube
that the Autoline Channel turned eighteen today. That means if
we were a kid, we'd be old enough to vote.
And a reminder here that we're going to be off for the next two days to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday.
We hope all of you enjoy a great Thanksgiving and we'll see you back here again on Monday.
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