EVWorldNews

Day: December 9, 2022

  • ZS EV’s smaller version from MG motors to debut in India soon

    The upcoming ZS EV from MG motors is going to probably debut in India. Before, the launch, the automaker as of now is testing the electric vehicle it has. This is a much smaller version of the ZS electric which is an SUV. This has been recently seen on the roads of Gujrat where they were testing. This is an upcoming electric car which is aimed at the customers who are looking for an affordable and small EV in India.

    The test vehicle of the ZS EV is going to be a three door model. The EV will expectedly be coming with a light bar that is going to stretch to the entire width of a rear section which connects with its tail lights. There is also speculation that it is going to come with the rectangular fog lamps as well as the bumpers that are body-coloured.

    As per a leaked image, this car may be a rebadged version of the Wuling Air electric vehicle. This is going to be the smallest car on the roads in India.

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    The ZS EV in all likelihood is going to have a range of 200 to 300 kilometers on one charge.

    At the same time, the MG Motor India has also initiated a huge overhaul in the top leadership as it signals an intent for this market to have a long term commitment as there is a huge scrutiny of the FDI which comes from China. MG is among the only Chinese manufacturers which have set a facility up in India after the debut with the SUV MG Hector in the year 2019.

    The affordable segment could be one which the market needs the most as it would then go on to grow its volumes and reach out to a huge middle class segment.

  • BMW electric cars may benefit from bumpy roads.

    A patent from the car manufacturer BMW has revealed that poor roads or roads which have bumps maybe helpful to the power cars. It has been revealed that BMW electric cars is looking to capitalize on infrastructure that has poor roads.

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    A document which has been unearthed form the national patent office in Germany has revealed that a new suspension device is going to allow the generation of electricity from the bumps on a road.

    This patent which has since been verified shows that a new way for charging of batteries can be done from the bumpy roads. When you get bumps, you can get more charging on the vehicle.

    It can be ascertained then that if the roads are bumpy, the cars would then have a longer workaround charging time for the electric vehicle.

    As per this document, the energy that gets generated from the movement of up and down of the suspension of a car gets wasted in the form of heat energy. This proposed setup is going to include a flywheel, generator and a clutch in suspension for capturing the energy during this process.

    It is apparent that generator of the car gets ticked off when the wheel of the car moves upwards due to a bump. The energy which results then gets used for recharging the battery of the electric vehicle.

    There are claims that BMW may be using this as a system in future on their flagship models. It is important for noting here that the patents are not always going to become products. Sometimes, these are just ideas which never find its way into the car.

    BMW had filed for this patent but the suggestion has been there for this technology for a while. Audi has also been talking about the technology for a while.

  • Chinese electric vehicles are offering a challenge to Europe

    The Chinese electric vehicles are now making their way into Europe and are aiming to win the sales volume from manufacturers such as Volkswagen which are looking to sell higher volumes of vehicle. But Mercedes, BMW and Audi cannot afford to get complacent as the companies will be coming for the upmarket manufacturers too.

    The premium markets however are going to be a lot more difficult to target as it is going to be difficult to compete with the status symbols which Audi, BMW, Mercedes and Porsche have become over the years and the nameplates BYD, Aiways, Xpeng or NIO may not have the same impact.

    It has been said that the share of the Chinese manufacturers of the battery electric vehicles in Europe may rise to about 15% by the year 2025 from 5% that it is right now. The big carmakers of Europe are currently hamstrung by the EU CO2 regulations which are in favor of the bigger, expansive and higher profit market electric cars and therefore seem unable to compete with the mid-price challenge and are even less inclined to contemplate a rise of the cheaper electric runabout.

    It is difficult to believe that the EU policy which is going to hollow the industry out and cause many job losses will be going unchallenged.

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    The market is vulnerable and the brands have been notching up impressive sales which are based on the high-standard equipment levels and have prices which are below the competitive companies.

    Chinese electric vehicles are going to go unopposed from the European electric vehicles. The earlier hurdles such as quality which were being faced by the ICE versions of the Chinese electric vehicles will not be faced by the electric vehicles as they have a superior quality in the recent past due to better manufacturing.