Ford is a well-known car company in the United States that makes many types of vehicles, including trucks and cars. They are famous for models like the Ford F-150 truck and the Ford Mustang sports car.
FSD means Full Self-Driving, which is a technology from Tesla that allows their cars to drive themselves in certain situations. It includes features that help the car navigate and park without needing a driver to control it.
Solid state batteries are a new kind of battery that use solid materials instead of liquids. They can be safer and might hold more energy, making them better for electric cars.
Autonomous technology means cars can drive themselves without needing a person to control them. This technology uses special sensors and computer programs to help the car understand its surroundings.
Lucid is a company that makes luxury electric cars, like the Lucid Air. They focus on making cars that can go a long distance on a single charge and have high-tech features.
Torque vectoring is a system in some cars that helps control how much power goes to each wheel, making it easier to drive and turn, especially on curves.
A pop-up camper trailer is a small trailer that you can pull with a car. It folds down for easy storage and can be opened up to provide a place to sleep and cook when you're camping.
The Honda ZR-V is a small SUV that is good for city driving and can also tow things like a small trailer. It's designed to be practical and versatile for different needs.
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Speaker 1: This is Ouderline Daily, the show dedicated to enthusiasts of the global automotive industry. President Trump was in Detroit yesterday
to touta's agenda, and as usual, he had some interesting things to say. His first stop was a tour of
the Ford Dearborn Truck plant with four chairman Bill Ford and CEO Jim Farley. There Trump was asked about this
year's mandatory review of the US MCA agreement, and he suggested that the US could leave it entirely. The President
called the agreement irrelevant and also said Americans don't need Canadian products, but automakers, especially the Detroit Three, disagree. Jim
Farley said while the agreement needs revisions, it's quote critical, and that he sees the US, Canada, and Mexico as quote an integrated manufacturing system. Later, Trump spoke at the
Detroit Economic Club, where he touted his terrace and cuts to environmental regulations. Trump also reiterated his support for letting
Chinese automakers open assembly plants in the US. Elon Musk
says Tesla will stop selling FSD as an entire package after February fourteenth, and will only offer it as a monthly subscription. It's offered FSD as a subscription since twenty
twenty one for ninety nine bucks a month, but owners can also buy it outright once for as much as fifteen thousand dollars, but currently sitting at eight thousand bucks. However,
even at eight thousand dollars, it would take nearly seven years of ownership before seeing any cost benefit compared to the monthly subscription. While Elon didn't give a reason for
the move, over the last several years, reports have popped up here and there about low customer take rate for FSD, so this could be an effort to address that. Plus,
there's more competition coming into the market. Mercedes is launching
a system with similar capability in the US this year, and Rivian will have a setup called Autonomy Plus that will cost a one time fee of twenty five hundred dollars or will sell for fifty bucks a month. And
speaking of self driving cars, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has introduced a new plan that should help accelerate the development of autonomous technology and solid state batteries.
It says it wants to see more cooperation in the energy and infrastructure fields, as well as a greater effort to build up local supply chains for materials, software and other tools. Right now, Chinese automakers are dealing with a
price war and an over capacity of vehicles as sales growth slows in the country, so the ministry is also backing plans to boost sales, like offering more vehicle trade in programs and ramping up the adoption of electrified heavy trucks.
Lucid builds most of its vehicles at its plant in Arizona.
The evy startup says it's on track to start manufacturing in Saudi Arabia. The company already assembles vehicles in the country,
but it plans to move to full scale production later this year. While CEO Mark winner Off didn't reveal initial targets,
Lucid expects the plan to reach full scale capacity of one hundred and fifty thousand vehicles in twenty twenty nine.
The reason it went with Saudi Arabia is because the country's Southern Wealth Fund is Lucid's top investor.
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Speaker 1: Chinese car sales and exports are expected to slow.
Speaker 2: Down this year.
Speaker 1: The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers estimates that car sales will grow just one percent this year, compared to ninezero point four percent last year. Evs are also expected to
take a hit, but will still outpace the overall market.
Last year, even plugin sales increase nearly thirty percent, but this year growth is projected to be cut in half to about fifteen percent. At the same time, exports are
also expected to cool. Last year, exports out of China
were more than twenty percent, but this year the increase is estimated to increase just four percent. And while the
overall Chinese market is expected to cool, Shaomi is set to soar this year. The company says it's targeting sales
of up to six hundred thousand units in twenty twenty six, which would be a forty percent increase over last year.
In twenty twenty five, Shaomi delivered nearly four hundred and thirty thousand cars, and that was a whopping one hundred and twenty six percent increase from twenty twenty four. BMW
is testing its first M model based on the new class architecture, and it's providing a few detail about the performance electric sedan. It features an eight hundred volt electrical
system and a battery pack with over one hundred kilowad hours of usable energy. BMW says it's using a performance
optimized cylindrical cell as well as a thermal management system that's been developed for higher power outputs. The battery housing
itself is actually part of the vehicle structure and is connected to the front rear axles. Those axles each have
two electric motors, so each wheel has its own power source.
Plus the front axle can be completely disconnected from the system, so it gets the advantages of both rear and all wheel drive as well as torque vectoring capabilities. BMW says
these are also the most powerful drive units it's ever used, and we should see this MeV either as a twenty twenty seven model year vehicle or some time in twenty twenty seven. Honda's big news to start twenty twenty six
is that it's coming up out with a pop up camper trailer. They call it the base Station. Honda says
it could be towed by a mid size CUV and the photo show it being towed by an electric Honda Zero.
It can sleep up to four, It's garageable, it will offer modular options like a cook stove and air conditioning, and it has a pop up roof. Honda says it
will be priced competitively with other pop up trailers, which we think means that it could be priced anywhere from fifteen thousand to twenty five thousand bucks. But that brings
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About this episode
President Trump made headlines during his visit to Detroit, calling the USMCA agreement 'irrelevant' while automakers like Ford's Jim Farley emphasized its importance. Meanwhile, Tesla announced a shift to subscription-only for its Full Self-Driving feature, potentially addressing low customer uptake. BMW is testing a new M model EV with advanced features, while Honda plans to launch a pop-up camper trailer. The episode also covers trends in Chinese car sales and the expected slowdown in the EV market.
- Trump Calls USMCA “Irrelevant” - Tesla FSD To Switch Subscription Only Model - China Sets New Rules for L3 and Solid-State Batteries - Lucid to Start Building EVs In Saudi Arabia This Year - Chinese Car Sales and Exports Projected to Slow This Year - Xiaomi Aiming For 600,000 Sales In 2026 - BMW Begins M Model Testing on New EV Platform - Honda Pops Its Top
