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Electric cars are coming, like it or not. Some companies are trying to get ahead of the curve, like BMW, which has high aspirations for electric sales volume in the coming year. Longer range, more sales. That's a very simplified version of what BMW is hoping from its plug-in vehicle line up. In fact, Bimmer is expecting to sell as many electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids in 2017 as it has for the past three years combined. BMW will sell about 60,000 plug-in vehicles this year, and is hoping to boost that annual total to 100,000 units for 2017. The key to this lofty goal is the...
The celebration of Kia's new $3 billion assembly plant in Mexico, was supposed to be fun and interesting, and it was interesting, but was it really fun? Glad-handing by local officials, lofty praise for the jobs created and money brought in, ceremonial ribbon-cutting with high-ranking executives in from Korea. But, the time for Miguel Angel Lozano to take the stage came, a mayor of Pesqueria, a small town about two hours from the southern tip of Texas. Kia's new plant sprawls over about 1,200 acres in Pesqueria, and, to hear Lozano tell it, his town has almost nothing to sho...
The 4.1% decline in U.S. new-vehicle sales in August provided more evidence of plateauing of consumer demand. The numbers further underscored the waning interest of buyers for sedans, especially in the midsize category. The U.S. automotive market's six-year recovery following the global financial crisis has been carried mostly by trucks, SUVs and crossovers. In August, for example, Toyota's (TM) RAV4 midsize crossover for the first time outsold the Japanese automaker's best-selling Camry sedan, 33,171 to 32,864. For Nissan (NSANY), the automaker's Rogue crossover in...
Global car sales have gained momentum this year, rising a stronger-than-expected 5% through July. While gains are expected to moderate through year-end, strengthening labour markets and improving financial conditions suggest that the upswing will continue in 2017. There are still nearly 50 million vehicles on the road in the United States that were built prior to the new millennium, and as a result U.S. purchases are expected to continue to move higher for the remainder of the year and in 2017. Carlos Gomes, Senior Economist and Auto Industry Specialist at Scotiabank, said that the ...
Of course when we're talking about U.S. car sales we can say that even though they get higher, they have reached a peak, but speaking about the overall auto sales in the whole world we need to accentuate that it goes better than ever now. Global vehicle sales have risen 5% through July. This improvement reflects a modest acceleration among the G7, especially Western Europe, as well as rebound in purchases across emerging markets. These gains are expected to moderate through the year-end, but specialists suggest us that this strengthening will continue through 2017 as well. Sale...
