Cars

Each shield of their cars and charges it as an extra

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Luxury car manufacturers They mark differences With general manufacturers by Your extreme care For the detail and exclusivity. In the case of Ferrari, one of the most valued elements is The shield that adorns the fins front of their cars, a symbol that goes far beyond being a simple ornament and that represents the artisanal essence and The prestige of the brand. This shield is the emblem that represents the level of dedication and perfectionism that the brand founded by Enzo Ferrari printed in each of its models, thus justifying the High price of your cars. Ferrari’s shield, known as “Scudetto”, It’s not just a badge: It is a small work of art that requires a thorough and completely manual process. Therefore, instead of using a plaque or an adhesive as the majority would do, one by one is painted and, of course, it makes the final bill of the car increase a few thousand dollars because It is an extra option that must be added when configuring the car. Each ‘Scudetto Aerografato’ is unique The process of Personalization in Ferrari It is so detailed that each car can be configured to the extreme, allowing customers to access an almost endless list of extras. In fact, the Personalization of supercar and luxury cars has become such a lucrative business how to build the car itself. The scudetti “Scuderia Ferrari” is one of the most emblematic and, although its price varies according to the model and the country, It is usually between 1,000 and 2,000 euros. For example, the collector Shmee150 had In a video On the customization of its Ferrari 296 GTS, which the cost of the shields was 1,325 euros. In a Ferrarista forum, a user published the budget photo of the customization of a Ferrari 458 Italia and the painting of the shields amounted to 1,183 euros. Touch the image to go to the original message As Ferrari herself showed in a published video In his X profilethe creation of each shield is A completely handmade process which demands a high degree of precision and patience. Each of the two shields that are placed in the front fins of a Ferrari requires up to eight hours of manual work, which is a total of 16 hours dedicated exclusively to this detail in each car. Maranello’s brand assured That this work is carried out by artisan experts from the Ferrari Painting Department, who apply several layers of paint and submit each shield to rigorous quality control before the car leaves the factory. Ferrari could opt for faster and more economic methods, but according to Stefano del Puglia, head of painting in Maranello, this decision does not respond to the lack of mechanized alternatives, but to the intention of making each Ferrari Be truly unique and of Increase the value of each vehicle For its owner. “The simplest solution would have been to use stickers, covered with a layer of transparent varnish to keep them in place and protect them from the weather. But Ferrari is not known for looking for the easy solution,” he said of the puglia. According to published The brand of ‘Il Cavallino Rampante’, “is an artisanal approach that is adopted not due to lack of mechanized alternatives; it is a deliberate effort, a part of what makes each Ferrari unique, something that improves the value of each car for its owner.” Somehow, they say from Ferrari, “it is like an autograph of its creator.” In Xataka | Luxury cars manufacturers already react to US tariff In Xataka | Ferrari is already noticing “the great transfer of wealth”: millennials and generation Z are already its main clients Image | Unspash (Jash Kothari)

What cars can circulate and which ones rest on May 3

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First week of May … or, at least, first weekend of May and first Saturday in May. You know what that means: with us, the restrictions of today do not circulate sabbatino. Because in addition to a few days of rest, the weekend is also synonymous with restrictions. If you still do not know what we are talking about, it is because you are not aware of the project devised by the CDMX Ministry of Environment (Sedema) with which he tries to breathe the quality of the air we breathe. As? The fact that? Let’s explain it. SEDEMA IS OBJECTIVE Improve air quality We breathe. And that has an easy solution, as long as we talk about leaving the car at home. At least, that is what those who have designed this measure think. If we leave the car at home, we will all breathe better … at least where it applies. Because, indeed, today does not circulate does not apply throughout Mexico, it is launched in the 16 mayorships in Mexico City and in the following conurbed municipalities of the State of Mexico: Atizapán de Zaragoza Coacalco de Berriozábal Cuautitlán Cuautitlán Izcalli Chalco Chicoloapan Chimalhuacán Ecatepec de Morelos Huixquilucan Ixtapaluca La Paz Naucalpan de Juárez Nezahualcóyotl Nicolás Romero Tecámac Tlalnepantla de Baz Tultitlán Chalco Valley What cars and plaques affect the Sabatino today Once we know this, what are the restrictions that we have to take into account? Obviously, on Saturdays we cannot circulate … at least a few. Because the restrictions do not apply for everyone or the same logic as the rest of the week. As you can see above, in the day to day it is the hologram of the car that marks who and when they can circulate. But on Saturdays they have their own dynamics, with some cars that rotate and others that can never move. Actually, with current restrictions you can give the following cases: Cars that can circulate every Saturday Cars that have to rest every Saturday Cars that rest on a Saturday yes and another Restrictions, yes, do not apply all day. They are active between 05:00 and 10:00 p.m.. That is, at night we can move freely and without taking into account any type of restriction. So how should we read the Sabatino today? Simply those who are affected by him will have to stay at home if they don’t want to be fined. Therefore, you have to be very clear if you have or not to rest. To begin with, cars with hologram 2 rest every Saturday, there is not one that can move. On the contrary, those of Hologram 0 and 00 can circulate whenever they want because cars are considered less pollutants. It is those of Hologogram 1 that have to be more attentive because in this case it is broken. This week, as we are facing the first Saturday of May, they are the cars with hologram 1 and plate number finished in an odd figure that must stay at home. Next week will be the other way around but this Saturday, May 3, 2025who cannot leave are those of Hologram 2 and those of Hologram 1 and plate finished in odd number. Next week the hologram 1 and plaque finished in torque will be rest. Despite this, there are some exceptions that must be taken into account because those cars can move with total freedom: Those that work for electricity, natural gas or are hybrid Those who have disabled plate All those dedicated to urban transport services (includes funerals) Those who offer school or passenger transport Those destined for public safety and/or civil protection In case of breaching these restrictions, the fine will be 20 to 30 times the unit of measurement and update (Uma), which is equivalent to 1,924.40 pesos and even 2,886.60 pesos. Photo | Markus Spiske In Xataka | Contamination is not only making you live less and worse. You are also making you darker

Chinese cars no longer compete against the West. Compete against the future itself

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For years, the West was the goal. The mirror where Chinese brands were looked at. The standard that had to be achieved. Today, that mirror is broken. Byd, Xiaomi, Zeekr, Nio or Jaecoo and omoda —The new heads of the Chery group in Europe – no longer mimic Tesla, Mercedes, BMW or Jeep. They play on another board. One that did not even exist five years ago. A land where The car is no longer just engine, or prestige, or inheritance: it is a digital platform, it is integrated emotion, It is services fluidity. While in Europe it is still discussed if the electric car can be profitable and in the United States automotive has become a political fight, In China the car has mutated something different: a living, sensitive, evolutionary object. A product in perpetual beta, as a software that learns, feels and redefines. Each new model launched by Chinese brands is less one car and more a manifesto, a declaration of intentions. Plus a commitment to the future than an answer to the present. He Xiaomi Su7 Ultra It is not an improved alternative to Model 3. It is a complete reinvention of the Premium car idea: 800 km of autonomy, ultra -grape load of 370 kilometers in 10 minutes, indoor level, native digital ecosystem, emotional assistants. The car not only drives: he lives, he feels, he talks. Byd, with all its brands, carries this transformation even further: models such as the Yangwang U8 or the denza Z do not offer luxury by themselves, but luxury as an emotional extension of technology, with an absolute domain of the software and an obsession with the user’s sensory experience. Each gesture, every texture, each lighting has an emotional purpose, not just functional. Yangwang U8L. Image: Xataka. Denza Z. Image: Xataka. Nio and Zeekr, meanwhile, explore the car as extension of the vital ecosystem: interchangeable batteries in minutes, voice assistants that learn from you, environmental screens that transform the cabin into an intimate space. They do not sell cars. They sell life experiences. And this phenomenon no longer remains in China. We are seeing it in Europe with omoda and jaecootwo brands that the Chery group has brought to Spain with a clear proposal: expressive design, advanced digital interfaces, full connectivity technology at a price that makes it difficult to ignore them. Omoda 3. Image: omoda. He Omoda 5 and the Jaecoo 7 They do not simply seek to replicate a German or Japanese SUV. They seek to build another car idea: more sensory, more digital, more emotional. He Omoda 3 He has consolidated that idea: it’s not just a car, it’s something else. And in their presentation they were insistent with the emotional aspect. In the interview we have published in XatakaCharlie Zhang, vice president of Chery, told us in Wuhu: “The stereotype has deflated at the speed of our sales.” A phrase that summarizes how China no longer needs to imitate anyone: now define its own rules. Because it is no longer just about electrification. Not even autonomy.It’s about redefining what it means to possess and live a car. China no longer seeks to live up to it, but directly design the next level. In Shanghai it was clear: the future of the car is no longer decided in Munich or Detroit. He is incubating in Beijing, in Shenzhen, in Wuhu. And the West, this time, no longer carries the lead. Outstanding image | Xataka In Xataka | I have driven the Jaecoo 5 EV in China: the electric SUV that no longer asks for permission

If the question is if the cars were “cheaper” regarding your salary in 1975 than now, we have made accounts

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It is no secret. Cars have risen in the last years. Cars, in fact, have risen a lot of price in recent years. It is an issue that we analyze in Xataka Two years ago and although the semiconductor crisis passed, the cost of getting a car has not lowered much. The problem even hit second -hand cars that too They shot their prices. It is a problem that was generalized internationally since the lack of components led companies such as Ford to have tens of thousands of vehicles due to the lack of some small component. Today the situation has been normalized. No longer is needed wait for more than a year To receive a car or there are people paying overpreds for Skip the waiting list of a Tesla. In fact, to the company It is costing to place according to what cars. But there is something that has not changed so much. The price of cars is still high. Very high. How high? Let’s compare it with a few years ago. A salary year Do we take a look at what the situation was half a century ago? Our partners L’Automobile They have echoed a study in which it was claimed that buying a Citroën 2CV in 1975 was much more complicated than getting a Citroën C3 in 2025. The French media, however, stated that the study presented them with any doubt because it was not taken into account, for example, the average cost of the house, one of the problems that, as in Spainhit France. Are we in Spain in the same situation? In our case, we are going to take official minimum salary data and vehicle prices as a departure. Thus, consulting the data reflected by the BOE of 1975, the minimum wage was at 8,400 pesetas. Monthly that, after the year, added 117,600 pesetas at the end of the year with 14 payments. That year, according to data collected in Bull skinspecialized in the Spanish classics, a Citroën 2CV-6 cost 123,088 pesetas. In January 1974, in Highway They explained The idiosyncrasy of this version in the following terms: “Without entering the discussion about whether the 2 hp must be considered as a car or simply as a distant cousin, the truth is that we find an inescapable reality: it is the cheapest vehicle on the market, and according to legend, also the cheapest consumption,” With the data in his hand, a Spaniard who charged the minimum wage needed to work 14.65 payments to pay the car. That is, just over the salary won in a whole year to acquire “the cheapest vehicle on the market.” Today, Citroën’s cheapest car is C3. Its price is 15,740 euros, According to the vehicle configurator. In 2025, the minimum interprofessional salary is 16,576 euros with the last climb of the SMI. Taking this into account, to pay a Citroën C3, a worker needs 13.29 payments. That is to say, Less days worked than 50 years ago For a vehicle of similar characteristics. And if we go to the cheapest car on the market, as collected in the search engine of Km77which have a huge database with the current prices of market cars, the most basic dacia A price of 13,940 euros It is the cheapest car on the market. In this case, a worker needs to dedicate 11.77 payments. That is, almost twelve payments, less than a year. They are data that compare prices “to the gross” since the cost of the purchase or housing car is not taken into account. Yes we know that in 1975, The best -selling car in Spain was the Seat 127. A car that at that time cost 166,290 pesetas. Or, what is the same, 19.79 payments of a Spaniard with minimum wage. The data is not less since it means that the Spanish buyer acquired A car 135% more expensive than the cheapest model on the market. In 2024, however, The most purchased car was … Dacia Sandero with 32,994 units. A car that put more than 10,000 units to Toyota Corolla, second classified. This gives us an idea of ​​the type of car to which a Spanish buyer aspires in 2025. To all of the above we must add, as we said, factors such as the price of housing. In this case, we have not found studies that aim at the cost of acquiring it in 1975 but in Xataka Yes we have studied evolution and the cost of the same over the years. For sample, housing prices are already still expensive as in the bubble years. Even if it is a fact deformed by inflation, The study which we echoed does show that an apartment is now 3.5 times more expensive than in 1980, when the study began. Another sample, in Bankinter They point out that a family needed the total income of 2.9 years to pay an apartment in 1987, while in 2023 this figure was between 7.3 and 7.5 years. Data that explain why if a car demands more or less the same amount of effort, now the most purchased car in Spain is a cheaper than 50 years ago. Photo | Citroën and Dacia In Xataka | Spain continues to prefer the cheap car, not the electric: the registration data leave a bittersweet taste for the industry

What cars can circulate and which ones rest on April 26

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Fourth week of April, week of (obviously) today restrictions does not circulate sabbatino. Because as you imagine, we maintain all the obligations to stay at home under fine if our car is affected by this type of restrictions. Because? Today does not circulate, that project designed by the CDMX Ministry of Environment (Sedema) with which he tries to breathe the quality of the air we breathe. But how is it defined? What must be taken into account? The idea is that at least cars circulating, less pollution we will have in the. atmosphere. Although they are a bit uncomfortable obligations, the idea is to leave the car at home for everyone’s good. Of course, where it applies. What is applied? In the 16 mayors in Mexico City and in the following conurbation municipalities of the State of Mexico: Atizapán de Zaragoza Coacalco de Berriozábal Cuautitlán Cuautitlán Izcalli Chalco Chicoloapan Chimalhuacán Ecatepec de Morelos Huixquilucan Ixtapaluca La Paz Naucalpan de Juárez Nezahualcóyotl Nicolás Romero Tecámac Tlalnepantla de Baz Tultitlán Chalco Valley What cars and plaques affect the Sabatino today Taking all this into account, what restrictions apply? And why do you have more things into account on Saturdays? Because, indeed, on days like today there are some specific restrictions. To define what are the restrictions and how they apply, they apply taking into account the hologram of each car. This is what marks whether or not a car can leave home. There are cars that have to rest every Saturday, others that rotate … In short, the following cases can be given: Cars that can circulate every Saturday Cars that have to rest every Saturday Cars that rest on a Saturday yes and another Restrictions, yes, do not apply all day. They are active between 05:00 and 10:00 p.m.. That is, at night we can move freely and without taking into account any type of restriction. But what if we are affected by today does not circulate? Well, basically, it will touch us at home if we don’t want to be fined. To do this, you have to be very clear who can circulate and who not. Thus, those of Hologogram 2 rest every Saturday. They cannot circulate any Saturday, there is not much to think. Nor do those of Hologram 0 and 00 have to take many laps because they can leave every Saturday without taking into account the restrictions. However, it is those of Hologram 1 who have to stop to think whether or not they can leave home. It depends, basically, on the week in which we are. As we are in the fourth week of April, the Saturday April 26, 2025 The cars with a plate finished in torque are obliged to stay at home. Next week, in the first week of April, they will be cars with Hologram 1 and plaque finished in odd number will have to stay at home. Despite this, there are some exceptions that must be taken into account because those cars can move with total freedom: Those that work for electricity, natural gas or are hybrid Those who have disabled plate All those dedicated to urban transport services (includes funerals) Those who offer school or passenger transport Those destined for public safety and/or civil protection In case of breaching these restrictions, the fine will be 20 to 30 times the unit of measurement and update (Uma), which is equivalent to 1,924.40 pesos and even 2,886.60 pesos. Photo | Rolando Garrido In Xataka | Contamination is not only making you live less and worse. You are also making you darker

Europe has focused on stopping Chinese electric cars. The true threat is in its cars with combustion engines

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He returned with other motor partners of the motor of the presentation of a new model or of a first contact. I do not remember the car that was but it was at Frankfurt airport, almost a second house for whom we have entered this world, and we were in 2023. I receive a call from a phone that I didn’t have saved. To the answer, the person on the other side of the phone is presented and explains that Chery, the company that owns Omoda and Jaecoo, are finalizing the details for their first events in Spain. The Chinese group was going to land In our country. It was already an open secret But I talk a few minutes on the phone to learn more details. They explain that they are very clear: they will enter the market with combustion vehicles. It is not that its bet is clearly focused on low ranges but they are sure that their arrival in Europe should be through models with thermal motors. The electric car is perhaps the future (and yes, they have options saved to launch) but for now they will focus on gasoline and hybrid vehicles because they are still preferred by European customers. Although logical, the speech did not stop crashing. It is not that they rejected the electric car but they were clear that they were going to follow that very own philosophy of Toyota to sell in each market what the client asks. And the client, in Europe, continues to prefer the hybrid car or the pure combustion. When Omoda made his long in Spain, we explained that he had MG as a reference. Saic’s company is the Chinese manufacturer who More cars is selling And, in fact, this Chinese state group is the most successful in our continent at the moment. His MG4 Electric It is one of the great supervants because by size and autonomy it was much cheaper than its rivals. However, Saic knew how to smell very well what the client claimed. The MG4 Electric is especially interesting in markets such as Spanish, where we prioritize cheap cars. But for all those who do not want or cannot afford the jump to the electric car, the former British company has offered a good handful of pure combustion products that have managed to place themselves in the lower market. And the results have not been waiting. We looked at the electric car … Given that electric offensive of Chinese cars for Europe, with the MG4 Electric leading a landing to which Byd has joined as a great reference between plug -in vehicles, child, Xpeng, Dongfeng, Leapmotor and, more discreetly, Chery (omoda/Jaecoo), the European Union decided to lift commercial barriers to the cars arrived from the cars arrived from the Asian country. Those commercial barriers are translated, Since October 2024in specific tariffs on each company, taking into account the alleged help that the brand has received from the Chinese State and the degree of collaboration they have shown with the European authorities in their investigation. The Tariffs apply to electric cars And even those brought by European companies from there as a result of their association with Asian companies. But those commercial barriers They do not apply to combustion vehicles nor to the plug -in hybrids that is where, truly, China is hurting. We do not know if it is part of a strategy not to make tariffs a direct attack on the Asian country or because from Europe it was considered that the real danger was in the Chinese and cheap Chinese car and that local businesses could fight with low -end combustion cars. But the truth is that where they begin to get a part of the cake is exploit those cars with combustion engines. For proof, the SAIC growth presented in Europe under different brands. According to ACEA dataThey sold in Europe 157,340 units in 2024, 6.7% more. A figure that places them above Jaguar-Land Rover, Mitsubishi, Mazda and Honda. Its market share stood at 1.5%. And in what we have this yearSaic keeps making his way. In what we have been registered 52,508, a third of the cars that placed in 2024, with a 52.3% growth in the first quarter of the year. At the moment, he has left Suzuki behind, who had it ahead in 2024, he is shot by Volvo, and his market share has grown up to 1.9% (compared to the 1.2% last year at this point at this point). As for the other Chinese companies, we have no data at European level. We do know that Chery has announced That Omode and Jaecoo will extend to a total of 19 markets this year. So far, they only operated in eight markets but in 2025 we will see them. With this extension they expect to sell about 10,000 units when April ends and reach 75,000 units at the end of the year. It is a small figure with respect to what we have seen with omoda but will allow them to place themselves above companies such as Honda or Mazda if the figures end up closing. In Spain, Registrations reflect that Omode is already selling almost as much as Fiat, accumulating 2,539 units in what we have been over, and surpassing brands fully settled in our country such as Honda or Suzuki. In addition, Chery adds 1,945 units of Jaecoo and 1,154 of Ebro. Right now, their more than 5,700 units sold as a group place them in a competitive position despite only offering a handful of models and without having received the options with eco or zero emissions stickers They are a claim. With very little time in the market, the Jaecoo 7 plug -in hybrid is already the fourth most selling model in our country. For its part, Byd already sells more than Tesla In our country (3,809 units compared to 3,169 units of Elon Musk cars) but focuses the bulk of its registration on … Read more

Renault asks Japan to copy and make “small cars that people can buy.” The truth is that we don’t want them

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The automobile market has forgotten small and simple cars. It is a reality for which it should be a perfect mobility solution for the middle European citizen. Now, Luca De Meo is committed to prioritizing the “small cars that people can buy.” But do these words make sense? “We don’t do it”. Because they are “unproductive,” according to Luca de Meo. Of those who speak are of small cars, of those of smaller size that, for the CEO of Renault, have completely killed European regulations. “We have to make small cars that people can buy again,” he said in an interview with Auto.it. “It is difficult for a regulator to know more than an engineer which is the best solution. Let’s leave engineers the best solution to reduce the impact of CO2,” said Meo to the questions of the Italian medium. The problem? For the CEO of Renault it is clear: “European regulation in the last 20 years has failed.” And this has been because “it was driven by the Germans, who wanted to make the most complex cars, because it suited them. That has had a devastating effect in other producing countries such as France, Italy and a little in Spain where people buy small cars because they do not have money or do not enter the cities.” The solution? Have your own regulation that It resembles that of Kei Car Japanese. These cars are extremely small, they cannot exceed 3.4 meters long or 1.48 meters wide. Nor equip yourself with an engine greater than 660 cc or 64 hp. In return, cars are not considered as such and, therefore, They do not have restriction problems that traditional vehicles in large cities have. In return, MEO slides not only the idea of ​​promoting small vehicles with new legislation, it also chooses to reduce the mandatory safety elements in cars of this size. “We were forced to add a security equipment valued at 400 euros. That on a Renault Twingo is a lot of money, in a sedan it is much less.” Too expensive. It is a usual criticism of the price of cars. They are too expensive for the client to allow them. Actually, although in recent years the price increase has been very pronounced, a car is cheaper now than 50 or 60 years ago. However, the ability to access the low range has been reduced. Pressing for other expenses of enormous cost, such as housing, the Spanish average citizen is opting for low -end vehicles when acquiring a new car. In what we have been, The best -selling car is Dacia Sanderofollowed by the MG ZS, the two cheapest cars in its segment. He is accompanied by Nissan Qashqai who has recently dropped price and the Renault Captur and Seat Arona, cars that barely exceed 20,000 euros starting. It does not come profitable. In his words, Luca de Meo is part of reason. Match the cheapest cars in safety equipment with the highest cost Price irremediably increases of this type of vehicles. By European regulationsthe cheapest car that is sold in our continent must have, among other systems, emergency braking, lane output alert or rear camera. However, it is also unquestionable that this equipment is an extra security for drivers who put themselves at the controls of a car. Although from Dacia (from the Renault Group) They have removed value for these measuresthese types of obligations guarantee a minimum of possible accidents to all drivers. Do we buy them? Luca de Meo’s words sound very good but … are we interested? If we attend to the number of Enrollments in our countryurban vehicles (such as the aforementioned Twingo) barely register 1.4% of registrations. They are the compact and the C-SUV (comparable by size) the most purchased vehicles in Spain, accumulating 48.5% of registrations. A segment followed by the utilities and B-SUV, which total 39.6% of the enrollment. Expanding the views to the rest of Europe, Discriminate Acea to vehicles in traditional sizes. A+B for utilities and urban (those of smaller size), followed by compact (c), medium size (d) and luxury (e and f). However, take the SUVs out of these categories. According to these data, in 2023 segment A and B that De MEO considers among the best selling remained at 21%, while the SUVs accumulated 51% of the registrations (between three and four times more than a decade ago). The little ones (taking into account that they add two segments) are not so far from 15% that compact accumulate. Do we want them? It is the other big question. According to the registration, we prefer larger vehicles. But, in addition, there is another constant: commercial failures among smaller vehicles. Although most European citizens make their daily journeys in urban environments, cars dedicated exclusively to the city remain little dear. WE HAVE SMART EXAMPLEconsidered a car too expensive despite being extremely useful in the European cities of intricate streets in historical and difficult parking helmets. Photo | In Xataka | If you have 155,000 euros in your pocket, now you have another doubt: buy the new Renault 5 Electric Turbo or a Porsche 911

Byd did not go to the Shanghai Auto Salon to show cars. Went to exhibit power

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In the Shanghai Motor Show there are 70 car brands. Most come to present cars and Byd comes to show power. His was not a standbut a manifesto. And at the largest car fair on the planet. Its brands – the general byd, the ultra -premium yangwang and the newly arrived in Europe denza– They were, more than aligned, orchestrated. And each model does not seem a simple proposal, but an offensive. Seeing them, no one just described them, but to enumerate their possible victims. The sensation It wasn’t even admiration, but for certainty: just like Huawei with mobilesByd does not seek to compete but to take. Being a national champion, in business jargon, is a thing of the past: now his vocation is hegemony. In fact, his conference was the most often, with the permission of Chery’s, and the most jaleada. Symbolic capital of a new China. The usual byd, which is no longer The BYD base is still that of the car for everyone, but does it with an increasingly attractive sophistication for its customers and dangerous for its rivals. At the Fair, five models of the Ocean series, all electric or hybrids, and all with advances that place them above the price they hold – although the translation to Spanish euros is always a complicated equation. It is, in any case, the old Byd trick: Give yourself to the price of a generalist what others call premium. He Sealion 06for example, it arrives as a compact SUV with athletic design, long muscle. Your assistance system ‘Eye of God‘It comes standard, and has compatibility with the new ultra -grape load network of 1,000 watts. It promises 400 kilometers of autonomy with five minutes of load. And all for less than $ 20,000. He Seal 06its range input version, this logic replicates in a lighter body, designed for fleets, Carsharing and emerging markets. Byd Seal 7. Image: Xataka. Byd Sealion 7. Image: Xataka. And the renewal of already classic models such as Those of the series L They illustrate the maturation of the Byd nucleus: they have not only updated their engines (the new electrical units reach 30,511 rpm), but also incorporate technologies typical of recent high ranges: Adaptive suspensions Disus-m. Total connectivity. And even autonomous driving functions Level 2+. What a five -year is a Chinese miracle today is the new standard. Byd Song L EV. Image: Xataka. The message is clear: Byd wants volume, but also prestige. And unfortunately for his rivals, he not only wishes it but is willing to build it, marked per brand, segment by segment, country by country. Denza, elegance as an attack And if the prestige is the new front, denza is the first shock line. Initially conceived as a joint experiment with Mercedes-Benz and today 100% controlled by byd, this brand is the advance of Chinese electric luxury. Do not compete in volume, compete in perception. And in Shanghai came his most serious offensive: the Denza z. This two -door and four -seater electric coupe is, Visually, a missile. Low, muscular, with a marked waist line and a design that reminds more of a Concept living room than a production car. But it is confirmed: it will reach the market. Denza Z. Image: Xataka. Image: Xataka. It will incorporate cable address, folding steering wheel, intelligent magnetic suspension and premium materials. All wrapped in a body reminiscent of Stuttgart but shouts ‘Shenzhen’. The Z was not the only star. He also shone Denza N9a large SUV and elegant, refined design. Spacious interior, immersive screens, advanced driving assists. He is already on sale in China from 389,800 yuan – about 47,000 euros – and his arrival in Europe is expected at the end of the year with a more enigmatic price than ever. And the N7an old acquaintance who part of the 260,000 yuan, about 36,000 euros, monopolized less premium but more generalist looks. Denza N7. Image: Xataka. Denza N7. Image: Xataka. For a market that begins to look suspicious at the German overprices, denza proposes something disturbing: luxury, but logical. The offensive complete the Denza D9a luxury minivan that has gone from curiosity to supervants in the Chinese market. Designed for executives and families of high purchasing power, the D9 offers a cabin experience that rivals that of a private jet: two rear seats with massage, ventilation, individual screens, panoramic roof, reinforced acoustic insulation and automatic sliding doors that convert access into a ceremony. Interior of the denza D9. Image: Xataka. Its double motorization – a pure or plug -in hybrid – offers versatility without sacrificing status. In a world where the minivan category seemed extinguished by the SUVs, byd the reinvent with one purpose: convert premium mobility into space, silence and prestige. Thus and everything will be complicated to refuse in Europe despite all these arguments. His proposal is based on offering a Porsche or a Maserati at the price of high -end Audi. Of course, if five years ago they list all the already common Chinese brands in our streets, we would have entered the silly laugh. We will see. Yangwang: the national luxury vertex His ultralujosa brand, designed to compete with Rolls-Royce, the Range Rover prohibitive or the Maybach, To those who do not imitate, but who reinterprets them. And from a deeply Chinese look. The very long one Yangwang U8L It was one of the most visited models in the hall. It is an extended version of the already imposing U8. It measures 5.4 meters, offers three rows of seats and a ceremonial luxury aesthetic. The badges, as is the case with the Su7 ultraThey are available in 24 carat gold. The back gate opens in two vertical halves. If we take into account the prices that this brand manages it is inevitable to see the trunk open as a chest. Yangwang U8L. Image: Xataka. Yangwang U8L. Image: Xataka. Yangwang U8L. Image: Xataka. Yangwang U8L. Image: Xataka. And then it is The interior, a mixture of a … Read more

The aid seemed the only way to sell electric cars. Germany is demonstrating that we were wrong

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Electric car sales do not take off without state aid. And it has logic if we take into account that we are talking about a technology that forces the driver to Make some adaptation And, according to what cars we buy, force him to plan your trips. The electric car has many advantages. In Spain, with current prices and rates, an electric car can be much cheaper That one of combustion shortly time. In fact, The more trips and kilometers dothe car comes out. To this we must add the advantages Undoubted for day to day such as the absence of vibrations, of noise, the comfort of having the entire torque to a throttle pedal … but they are advantages that the client has to discover and that it is normal that it does not encourage it when the disbursement will be of tens of thousands of euros. To foster change, states have focused on giving purchase aid. It is a good way to lower the price and leave it at a cost closer to combustion models, especially when electric were sensibly more expensive than gasoline or diesel. They are decisions for which the reference countries have opted in the electric car market. He did it Norway, he did (and he does) China And Germany did it. And the German case showed us that without purchase aid, Electric car sales are deflated… or deflated. Because they have grows again. What if we have been looking at the wrong place? Direct aid to purchase At the end of 2023 justice forced Germany to withdraw aids to the purchase of electric cars. The reason is that funds had been diverted to combat the crisis derived from the coronavirus to the promotion of the electric car. Without destiny for that money, the government had preferred to reinvest it in the game of electric mobility. For justice, this was illegal and therefore I ordered the aid to immediately withdraw. Overnight, aid fell to the purchase that extended to all cars up to 65,000 euros. Last year, in 2024, a reduction in subsidies was already expected but buyers could expect a mattress of 4,500 euros in cars of up to 40,000 euros and 3,000 euros in which a price of between 40,000 and 65,000 euros appears. The help was complemented by manufacturers with 2,250 euros and 1,500 euros, respectively. That is, savings in the first case could be up to 6,750 euros and in the second of up to 4,500 euros. Figures similar to those we see in Spain with the MOVES III PLANrecently reimputed until the end of the year or exhaust the funds available. Last year, the fall in electric car sales was considerable. In its first year of direct aid to the purchase, Germany enrolled 27.4% less electric cars. A blow to European accounts with the main electric car market by volume falling from 524,219 tuition from 2023 to 380,609 units enrolled in 2024. By market share, the German electric car fell from 18.4% to 13.5%. However, everything has changed in these first months of 2025. They collect in Motorpasion than the 17% of cars Enrolled in Germany are electric. Compared to the month of March of last year, 35.5% have been grown and the trend indicates that it will continue to grow. It is very good news because they lack direct aid to the purchase of cars of this type. What the State is doing is to encourage the purchase of this type of fleet cars. Companies can deduce up to 40% of the value of the car in the purchase of new cars. A decision that has triggered sales since company vehicles reflect 67% of new car registration in Germany. The strategy is not new in Europe and focuses on the importance of aid beyond lowering the price of cars. In Norway, they stood out that if they have made the electric car Your best selling technology It has been because for years they have given themselves constant subsidies related to the property of the electric car. Not paying some taxes or road toll have been definitive attractive for implementation. Yes indeed, 1.8 billion euros have been raised. Belgium has been the other great country where the electric car has exploded in sales in recent months. In Belgium they already exceed 30% quota electric car market. Last year, to February 2024, they exceeded 20% market share and in 2022 they barely exceeded 8%. The secret is in the aids that, again, are given to companies. Depending on income, a company can be deduced up to 100% of the electric car fee. The percentage will fall over the years but prevent maintaining this economic incentive until 2031. In Bloomberg They explain that in a country where the company car is usually used as an incentive when changing work, promoting the purchase of this type of cars is key to popularize them and reach sectors that did not expect to make the leap for a few years (or did not expect it at all, as one of those interviewed in the article recognizes). The strategy contrasts with the one we have been carrying so far in Spain. Our country has also joined the delivery of purchase aids but, in addition to not being direct at the time of signing the contract, Each extension It has been a birth. The suspension for two months In the last extension of the Moves III Plan it has been the best example. Photo | Volkswagen In Xataka | The electric car is sweeping so much in China that the natural step is already raised: stop calling it “electric”

Needs to remove tariffs on your electric cars

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We are on April 14. Anyone would say that we have climbed into a concord and we have turned over the speed of sound without pause, without scales. Without stopping to repost. Since last April 2, the United States began to Apply cars tariffssteel and aluminum but, above all, since it imposed New commercial barriers to almost all of the world, it seems that everything has happened at a dizzying speed. In just 12 days we have seen USA Impose tariffs on (almost) every inhabited country. Even if I was inhabited by penguins and a handful of humans. We have seen one Chinese response, to the bag falla Increased hostilities In the commercial war, raising tariffs, threats from the European Union, the stock market falling again, increases in the figures of the tariffs that touched the absurd and a final step of Donald Trump with a 90 -day truce and Exemptions in some products Arriving from China. But before all this happened, there last October 2024, the European Union began to apply tariffs to Chinese electric cars that remain in force. A commercial dispute that has had multiple derivatives. To start, in Spain we have seen how The government changed minds About tariffs on Chinese electric cars To avoid Chinese reprisals. Reprisals that have reached countries like Italy, where investments have been cast back for supporting these tariffs in the past. Or that they led to Byd, Saic and Geely to file a lawsuit before the Court of Justice of the European Union. Months after the first storm, it seems that Europe and China begin to understand each other. At least that’s what the German newspaper affirms Handelsblatt. Looking for a land price To be clear about what we are talking about, you have to know where we come from. In September 2023the European Union began talking clearly to impose tariffs on Chinese electric cars. The agencies began to defend that the Chinese automobile industry was distorting the market offering electric cars at a very low price. That low and highly competitive price could allow it because, according to the European Union, their companies were Dopadas with state money. Either with direct subsidies, with soft credits or with the transfer of land, the European Commission ended up voting in favor of imposing what, first, were “Compensatory Rights” And, already in October 2024, they reached the figure of “duty” as we know them. Before that last approval, the European Union and China maintained an open dialogue on them. So Europe opted for impose tariffs with specific rates to each manufacturer, ensuring that not everyone had received the same aid and depending on the degree of collaboration shown. For example, Byd was the Chinese company that received the least punishment (17.4%) but SAIC, which is the property of the Chinese state, was 37.6%. To these figures we must add the 10% base that any country pays for exporting its cars to Europe. The rates, in addition, were applied to cars European manufacturers They produce in China. For example, the Volkswagen Group that in China is associated with SAIC has to pay very high tariffs for bring your electric cupra. It was a measure that tried to bring money and investments to Europe but that, with the rejection of China, ended by become a shot in the foot For some countries. From the first moment, the Chinese government was contrary to this decision and considered discriminatory this way of acting. For its part, the European Union opened the door to dialog combustion cars and plug -in hybrids. A type of especially attractive product in countries like Spain where cars purchases are dominated by low -end vehicles. Months after that, the German newspaper Handelsblatt It states that the European Union already negotiates with China a land price to its vehicles in exchange for lifting tariffs on electric cars. The media ensures that Maros Sefcovic, EU trade commissioner, has filed conversations with Wang Wentao, Chinese Minister of Commerce. At this meeting, the agreement would have reached a land price to its vehicles. The problem now is to reach an understanding, in Reuters They explain that so far the minimum prices that the European Union has imposed on foreign products always They have taxed simple products. That is, to non -complex products such as a car. The news agency already advances that from Europe they are willing to reach an agreement with different prices depending on the vehicle. At the moment, there is no news of what this land would be and if it would also affect cars with combustion engines or only electric vehicles as it happens right now with additional tariffs. Keep in mind that a different land price may make sense due to vehicle size or other variable that represents the quality and final price of the vehicle. It would be completely absurd to impose a land price of 20,000 euros (for example) to a five -meter car and leave the same figure for a large five -meter berling, generally associated with higher quality vehicles, cost and price. Liberating tariffs on Chinese manufacturers is also an advantage for Europeans who manufacture in Asian soil. In this way they will be able to offer their products without having to pay the corresponding rates so from Germany they already press so that this decision comes forward. Those who can show more contrary to this proposal are French manufacturers such as Renault or Stellantis. Except the Dacia Springthe Renault group does not bring electric cars from China and has always sold as a value to produce its Renault 5 In France. Stellantis either has Factories in China And in Europe it sells Leapmotor cars but the goal is that are manufactured in European landreuseting the facilities that the company has already distributed throughout Europe. At the same time, China needs agreements to continue selling cars outside its borders. Its production threatens to create a surplus of vehicles. Byd aims to sneak into the Five largest … Read more

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