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Stellantis expands lineup of models with 48-volt hybrid system
The low-voltage system, which cuts emissions and fuel economy by up to 20%, adds an average of €2,000 per car. Cars with the system can travel up to 1 km on electric power only.

Stellantis will offer its 48-volt hybrid technology on a vastly expanded range of models in the coming years as EU emission targets tighten, starting in 2025.

The system can cut CO2 emissions and fuel economy by up to 20 percent, Stellantis said. It can be fitted to range of vehicle from minicars to midsize, and most of the components are directly transferable to higher-voltage plug-in hybrid models, although they use much larger batteries than the 0.9 kilowatt-hour units on the 48-volt hybrid system.

Stellantis says it will have an annual production capacity of 1.2 million cars with the eDCT system, as it calls it, especially as it replaces more and more nonhybrid ICE powertrains with manual transmissions. 

Even though it uses a 48-volt electric system, Stellantis executives said Monday that they do not consider it a mild hybrid because it offers similar benefits as higher-voltage full-hybrid systems used by Toyota, Renault and others.

“For us, it’s a hybrid, period. We do not designate it as a mild hybrid,” said Christian Mueller, senior vice president propulsion system for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. “When you compare it to a high-voltage hybrid, you get very similar CO2 gains for lower costs for our customers.” 

Mueller said the average price increase is about €2,000 per model. 

The heart of the system is the 0.9-kWh battery, which weighs about 12 kg, Mueller said. It also includes a 21-kW electric motor integrated into the dual-clutch automatic transmission and a belt-drive starter/generator that improves stop/start functions.

The engine used in most cars with the system is a new generation of Stellantis’ 1.2-liter three-cylinder unit, with a total output of either 100 or 136 hp.

Cars equipped with the eDCT system can travel about 1 km on battery-power alone, and also perform low-speed maneuvers such as parking. Mueller said fuel economy gains could be up to two liters per 100 km in urban use, when energy recovery is greatest. Energy is harvested during coasting and braking.

“This is our right-sized solution to approach the hybrid world,” said Francesco Cimmino, global hybrid systems chief engineer at Stellantis.

LANCIA
The just-revealed Lancia Ypsilon small car will also have the e-DCT system.

Among the vehicles that now offer the system or will be launched in the next year are the Alfa Romeo Junior and Tonale SUVs, Citroen C3, C4 and C5 (hatchbacks and SUVs); Fiat 600; Jeep Avenger; Lancia Ypsilon; and most of the Opel/Vauxhall and Peugeot model range, including the Opel Grandland and Peugeot 5008 larger compact SUVs. 

As an example, the current Opel Mokka small SUV with a non-hybrid 1.2-liter engine has CO2 emissions of 137 g/km, while the just-launched eDCT hybrid has emissions of 104 g/km. Opel says the hybrid saves more than a liter of gasoline per 100 km in mixed driving, from 6.1 l/100 km to 4.9 l/100 km.

Mueller said the expansion of hybrid technology was planned years ago and was not related to the recent slowdown in EV sales in Europe. “We are executing our BEV (battery-electric vehicle) plans in parallel. We’re still very focused on 100 percent BEV sales in Europe in 2030.”

He added that Stellantis was in no danger of missing its 2025 fleet CO2 targets, which are about 15 percent lower than the last stepdown in 2020-21, although he said the 48-volt eDCT system would replace a lot of the volume from manual transmission nonhybrid base model powertrains.

 

(ANE)

 

 

[Tommy99]

9 ore fa, __P scrive:

e sei nuovi lanci entro il 2026…

 

• Compass

• 500 Ibrida

• Grande Panda

• “Multipla”

e ne mancano 2 che probabilmente saranno ex PSA.

Quale sarebbe la novità? 😂

Aggiungerei Tipo/Fastback, che arriverà nel '26, e C5 Aircross

[davos]

Glia Stati Uniti danno 1,1 miliardi di dollari a GM e Stellantis per produrre elettriche

 

https://www.quattroruote.it/news/industria-finanza/2024/07/11/stati_uniti_a_gm_e_stellantis_1_1_miliardi_di_dollari_per_nuove_produzioni_di_bev.html

Modificato 11 Luglio da __P
Modifiche al senso della policy

[MotorPassion]

 

[Gengis26]

Quanto ha stancato questo continuo botta e riposta tra governo e tavares?

[Graziano68dt]

12 minuti fa, Gengis26 scrive:

Quanto ha stancato questo continuo botta e riposta tra governo e tavares?

Assolutamente d'accordo, è il 125esimo anniversario di Fiat, non avrei voluto sentire nè il ministro nè Carlos...

[Zender4]

Presentano nel 2020 la nuova 500E in versione Armani, Kartell, ecc

Presentano nel 2024 i 125 di Fiat e mostrano la 500E Armani con tanto di schermata ed auguri a Re Giorgio per i 90 anni...

 

Evidentemente quelli del marketing Fiat ambivano ad altra azienda e ci sperano ancora nel posto...

Modificato 11 Luglio da Zender4

[stev66]

Sarebbe carini che per l'anniversario domani ne tirasse fuori una 

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Leapmotor aims to take EVs global with Stellantis deal
The partnership with Stellantis will “allow us to take the lead and go faster than some other Chinese automakers,” CEO Zhu Jiangming said.

The Chinese automaker Leapmotor is little known outside its home country, and even there it is overshadowed by bigger players like BYD and Tesla.

But Zhu Jiangming, Leapmotor's co-founder and CEO, expects that to all change soon, after striking a potentially transformational deal with Stellantis that will take Leapmotor’s electric vehicles to the rest of the world. 

“The original motivation to start Leapmotor was because the transition from internal combustion engines to EVs represents an amazing opportunity,” Zhu said in a wide-ranging interview late last month.

The partnership with Stellantis will “allow us to take the lead and go faster than some other Chinese automakers.”

The deal with Stellantis shows how quickly China’s new breed of EV upstarts have shaken up the global auto industry.

Founded in 2015, Zhejiang Leapmotor delivered just over 33,000 vehicles in the first quarter, a fraction of the 624,398 shipped by BYD and the 1.335 million Stellantis delivered.

Still, that puts Leapmotor near the top of China’s EV upstarts like Li, Huawei-backed Aito, and Nio.

The attraction for Stellantis though, is Leapmotor’s technological know-how, which has allowed it to offer affordable EVs still packed with features like advanced driver assistance and intelligent cockpits that are the industry’s new battlefront as cars get smarter and more connected.

For instance, Leapmotor’s C10 electric crossover costs 138,800 yuan ($19,100) and comes with a range of 530 km miles), winning comparisons with Tesla’s Model Y, which starts at 249,900 yuan in China.

“Myself and my team, we are good at electrical systems technology,” said Zhu, explaining his expertise was gained working for Motorola and then founding the surveillance-camera company Zhejiang Dahua.

That is an advantage when making EVs, where about 70 percent of the technological components are electrical and 30 percent mechanical. The ratio is the reverse for gasoline-powered cars, Zhu said.

The core electrical parts that account for the majority of costs for Leapmotor EVs are produced in-house, allowing the company to cut out suppliers and save on expenses.

This makes it one of the few Chinese EV manufacturers that is highly vertically integrated, along with BYD, and allows Leapmotor to sell at an affordable price point and survive what has been a bruising price war in the hotly competitive market.

Those capabilities and cost-controls were what attracted Stellantis to propose the partnership, in which the European automaker invested €1.5 billion ($1.6 billion) for a 21 percent stake in Leapmotor. It also set up a joint venture to build and sell Leapmotor’s cars outside China through Stellantis’ global network.

The tie-up is now exploring assembly and sales of Leapmotor’s T03 compact hatchback and mid-size C10 SUV in nine European countries and has tested complete knock-down kit (CKD) assembly in Poland.

But Stellantis’ other plants in the region, including in France and Italy, are also being considered and a final decision is yet to be made, according to Leapmotor co-President Michael Wu.

Still, the deal has not been without some controversy, given Zhu’s role as co-founder of Dahua Technology — which has been sanctioned as a national security threat by the U.S. and previously held a stake in Leapmotor.

However, Zhu said that after the partnership was finalized last year and Stellantis purchased Dahua’s shares, Leapmotor no longer has any relationship or shared personnel with the surveillance firm.

Zhu also hit back at U.S. and EU claims that China’s EV industry runs at overcapacity and surplus cars are exported.

The EU earlier this month imposed provisional tariffs of as much as 48 percent on Chinese EVs, while the U.S. has slapped a 100 percent duty on EVs from China. Canada last month said it’s weighing tariffs as well.

Leapmotor’s Jinhua factory is running at just over 70 percent of its annual capacity of more than 300,000 vehicles and could reach 80 percent by the end of the year, Zhu said. The company is also planning another plant for a new product line launching in 2025, in Hangzhou’s Qiantang district, which also has an estimated annual capacity of about 300,000 units, he said.

And while Leapmotor has received support from China’s government, it’s nowhere near what the U.S. and EU claim, he added.

China’s EV industry developed as a result of steady guidance that made many realize it is the direction of the future, so everyone is working toward that, Zhu said.

 

(ANE)

 

 

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On 12/7/2024 at 13:04, 4200blu scrive:

Leapmotor aims to take EVs global with Stellantis deal
The partnership with Stellantis will “allow us to take the lead and go faster than some other Chinese automakers,” CEO Zhu Jiangming said.

The Chinese automaker Leapmotor is little known outside its home country, and even there it is overshadowed by bigger players like BYD and Tesla.

But Zhu Jiangming, Leapmotor's co-founder and CEO, expects that to all change soon, after striking a potentially transformational deal with Stellantis that will take Leapmotor’s electric vehicles to the rest of the world. 

“The original motivation to start Leapmotor was because the transition from internal combustion engines to EVs represents an amazing opportunity,” Zhu said in a wide-ranging interview late last month.

The partnership with Stellantis will “allow us to take the lead and go faster than some other Chinese automakers.”

The deal with Stellantis shows how quickly China’s new breed of EV upstarts have shaken up the global auto industry.

Founded in 2015, Zhejiang Leapmotor delivered just over 33,000 vehicles in the first quarter, a fraction of the 624,398 shipped by BYD and the 1.335 million Stellantis delivered.

Still, that puts Leapmotor near the top of China’s EV upstarts like Li, Huawei-backed Aito, and Nio.

The attraction for Stellantis though, is Leapmotor’s technological know-how, which has allowed it to offer affordable EVs still packed with features like advanced driver assistance and intelligent cockpits that are the industry’s new battlefront as cars get smarter and more connected.

For instance, Leapmotor’s C10 electric crossover costs 138,800 yuan ($19,100) and comes with a range of 530 km miles), winning comparisons with Tesla’s Model Y, which starts at 249,900 yuan in China.

“Myself and my team, we are good at electrical systems technology,” said Zhu, explaining his expertise was gained working for Motorola and then founding the surveillance-camera company Zhejiang Dahua.

That is an advantage when making EVs, where about 70 percent of the technological components are electrical and 30 percent mechanical. The ratio is the reverse for gasoline-powered cars, Zhu said.

The core electrical parts that account for the majority of costs for Leapmotor EVs are produced in-house, allowing the company to cut out suppliers and save on expenses.

This makes it one of the few Chinese EV manufacturers that is highly vertically integrated, along with BYD, and allows Leapmotor to sell at an affordable price point and survive what has been a bruising price war in the hotly competitive market.

Those capabilities and cost-controls were what attracted Stellantis to propose the partnership, in which the European automaker invested €1.5 billion ($1.6 billion) for a 21 percent stake in Leapmotor. It also set up a joint venture to build and sell Leapmotor’s cars outside China through Stellantis’ global network.

The tie-up is now exploring assembly and sales of Leapmotor’s T03 compact hatchback and mid-size C10 SUV in nine European countries and has tested complete knock-down kit (CKD) assembly in Poland.

But Stellantis’ other plants in the region, including in France and Italy, are also being considered and a final decision is yet to be made, according to Leapmotor co-President Michael Wu.

Still, the deal has not been without some controversy, given Zhu’s role as co-founder of Dahua Technology — which has been sanctioned as a national security threat by the U.S. and previously held a stake in Leapmotor.

However, Zhu said that after the partnership was finalized last year and Stellantis purchased Dahua’s shares, Leapmotor no longer has any relationship or shared personnel with the surveillance firm.

Zhu also hit back at U.S. and EU claims that China’s EV industry runs at overcapacity and surplus cars are exported.

The EU earlier this month imposed provisional tariffs of as much as 48 percent on Chinese EVs, while the U.S. has slapped a 100 percent duty on EVs from China. Canada last month said it’s weighing tariffs as well.

Leapmotor’s Jinhua factory is running at just over 70 percent of its annual capacity of more than 300,000 vehicles and could reach 80 percent by the end of the year, Zhu said. The company is also planning another plant for a new product line launching in 2025, in Hangzhou’s Qiantang district, which also has an estimated annual capacity of about 300,000 units, he said.

And while Leapmotor has received support from China’s government, it’s nowhere near what the U.S. and EU claim, he added.

China’s EV industry developed as a result of steady guidance that made many realize it is the direction of the future, so everyone is working toward that, Zhu said.

 

(ANE)

 

 

 

questi ce se magneno

 

(scusa @4200blu questa non credo che il traduttore automatico te la traduca)

 

 

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