Lucid Complete Factory Build, Ready For Test Production

Episode 940,   Dec 01, 2020, 04:44 PM

Lucid Complete Factory Build, Ready For Test Production | VW Faces Leadership Crisis As CEO Demands A Vote Of Confidence | Europe: Plug-In Electric Car Sales Tripled In October 2020 | European Favourite Models | VW Group Components Makes 40% Of ID.4 Components | Tesla Owners Are Going To Be Able To Remotely View Cameras

Wanna split £100? You get £50 free AND save money on 100% green electricity by moving to Octopus Energy. Plus I get £50 to support this podcast but ONLY if you do it by using my unique referral code. I moved to Octopus recently and had been putting it off for ages,  but I kicked myself for not doing it sooner, as it’s literally a 5 minute job to give them your details.

 

Click here: https://share.octopus.energy/free-puma-452

 

On today’s podcast:

  • Lucid Complete Factory Build
  • VW Faces Leadership Crisis As CEO Demands A Vote Of Confidence
  • Europe: Plug-In Electric Car Sales Tripled In October 2020
  • European Favourite Models
  • VW Group Components Makes 40% Of Id.4 Components
  • Tesla Owners Are Going To Be Able To Remotely View Cameras

 

 

Show #940

 

Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily for Tuesday 1st December. It’s Martyn Lee here and I go through every EV story so you don't have to.

 

Thank you to MYEV.com for helping make this show, they’ve built the first marketplace specifically for Electric Vehicles. It’s a totally free marketplace that simplifies the buying and selling process, and help you learn about EVs along the way too.

 

LUCID COMPLETE FACTORY BUILD

"Lucid Motors officially completed the construction the first phase of its Lucid AMP-1 (Advanced Manufacturing Plant - 1) factory in Casa Grande, Arizona - within a year since the company broke ground on the 590-acre site on December 2, 2019." says InsideEVs: "The plant, at its current stage, will have an initial capacity of 30,000 units of the Lucid Air model annually "to supply global markets, beginning with North America. Lucid is now busy with the commissioning of production equipment and intends to start series production of customer cars in Spring 2021. Before that happens, over the next few months, Lucid will build production-representative versions of the Air, fine-tuning its production line. In total, four phases are planned through 2028 (the square footage of the factory will expand from 999,000 square feet to 5.1 million square feet). The final form will have the manufacturing capacity of up to 400,000 electric cars annually (multiple models)."

 

[audio for podcast]

 

Peter Rawlinson, CEO and CTO, Lucid Motors said:  “We broke ground on the 590-acre Lucid AMP-1 site in Casa Grande, Arizona, on December 2, 2019, and slightly less than a year later we have completed the first purpose-built EV factory in North America. The effort and agility demonstrated by this team is truly astounding, as we’re already commissioning equipment compatible with the Lucid manufacturing system to start production of the next-generation EV, the Lucid Air, in just a few months."

 

We know a SUV is coming next and then two more models.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXusI5uAX-M&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=LucidMotors

 

https://insideevs.com/news/456169/lucid-motors-completed-amp1-plant-capacity-stands-30000/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=RSS-all-articles

 

VW FACES LEADERSHIP CRISIS AS CEO DEMANDS A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE

" Volkswagen risked a leadership crisis Tuesday after Chief Executive Herbert Diess forced a vote of confidence in his reform efforts by asking for an early contract extension." writes Autoblog "The multi-brand car and truck maker is convening its Executive Committee to discuss Diess's demand for the contract extension, long before his current term comes to an end in 2023, three sources told Reuters on Monday.Volkswagen Chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch is seeking to avert a clash between labor leaders and Diess by postponing discussions about a contract extension, a person familiar with the matter said. Diess, who defected from BMW in 2015, and helped Volkswagen to reform after its diesel scandal with an $87 billion electric vehicle investment plan, has grown frustrated with German labor leaders blocking cost cuts. labor representatives control half the seats on the board of directors and local politicians have a 20% voting stake, allowing them to vote down significant strategic reform proposals."

 

A version of back me or sack me.

 

You know, if they can't fight the unions and he leaves. Nailed on he'll run Tesla Europe or TEsla EMEA. With Elon as CEO, Drew Baglino as SVP Powertrain and Jerome Guillen President of Automotive, there's a COO role somewhere to run Tesla as a whole - energy, solar, insurance etc.

 

But would it be too much of a demotion. VW sld 10.96million vehicles in 2019 whereas Tesla will do 500,000 this year. He currentyl manages a company with 671,000 employees, Tesla around 50k.

 

Herbert Diess wrote for Handelsblatt newspaper last week: " When I took office in Wolfsburg, I had firmly resolved to change the VW system. This meant breaking up old, encrusted structures and making the company more agile and modern. Together with many companions with the same level of motivation, I succeeded in doing this in many places, but not in some, especially not yet at our corporate headquarters in Wolfsburg.""

 

https://www.autoblog.com/2020/12/01/vw-leadership-crisis/

 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-we-transform-volkswagen-herbert-diess/

 

EUROPE: PLUG-IN ELECTRIC CAR SALES TRIPLED IN OCTOBER 2020

"October was almost a record month for plug-in electric car sales in Europe, slightly behind September, as the volume almost tripled year-over-year. 146,606 new plug-in passenger cars were registered during the period (up 195% year-over-year), which represents roughly 13% of the market. BEVs: 73,257 " says INsideEVs: "After ten months of 2020, close to 919,000 new plug-in passenger cars were registered in Europe, which is 9.5% of the total volume (5.1% falls on BEVs)! With two more months to be added, Europe might end at over 1.2 million."

 

EUROPEAN FAVOURITE MODELS

"This time the top model was the Volkswagen ID.3, which is its second month on top. ID.3 logged 10,584 new registrations. Interesting is that 7,911 of those were in just three countries: the Netherlands (2,789), Germany (2,647) and Norway (2,475). The second best - Renault ZOE - noted 9,890 registrations, but here also most of the sales (7,517) come from just two countries: Germany (5,010) and France (2,507)."

 

Hyundia Kona

Kia E-Niro

Peugeot e-208

Audi e-tron

 

Clearly October a rough month for ships arriving here. No Tesla was in the Top 20.

 

As for the year so far

1) Zoe (73,403)

2) Model 3 (58,063)

3)  Kona

4) e-Golf

5) etron

12) VW ID.3 (20,337)

 

https://insideevs.com/news/457575/europe-plugin-car-sales-october-2020/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=RSS-all-articles

 

 

VW GROUP COMPONENTS MAKES 40% OF ID.4 COMPONENTS

"The VW Group subsidiary Group Components has now published which parts their ‘Components’ division supplies for ID.4 and in which plants these parts and their preliminary products are manufactured." says electrive: "According to Volkswagen Group Components (VWGC), it contributes around 40 per cent of the total value added to the electric SUV, which is allegedly ten percentage points more than a comparable internal combustion engine model. VWGC is an entrepreneurially independent business unit and is responsible for the development and production of strategic components for the Group brands."

 

"In addition to the components that VW Group Components produces for the ID.4 and other MEB models, other important platform suppliers have now been revealed: The MEB drive control unit comes from Continental’s drive division Vitesco Technologies. The Dutch semiconductor manufacturer NXP is the sole supplier for the battery management systems of the MEB platform. TI Fluid Systems (TIFS) builds the heat pump module for the ID.3 and ID.4."

 

https://www.electrive.com/2020/11/27/vw-group-components-provides-40-of-id-4-components/

 

TESLA OWNERS ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO REMOTELY VIEW CAMERAS

"Tesla’s Sentry Mode is about to bring things to a whole new level by enabling Tesla owners to remotely see what their cars can see through Autopilot cameras." writes electrek: "Earlier this year, Tesla released a new in-car Sentry mode viewer — facilitating the review of the footage for owners. Now hacker “green,” who has been revealing new Tesla features found in software updates, believes that the automaker is working on letting owners remote livestream what their cars see with their Autopilot cameras. Tesla owners can already have an extensive look at the status of their vehicles, including the doors open or close, same for windows, charge port, and more. Now they are going to be able to see around their vehicles even if no Sentry Mode event has been activated."

 

@greentheonly: "Well, the remote camera viewing seems to be in the wings, whenever they’ll drop it in 2020.48 or if they’ll postpone it again — I don’t know."

 

https://electrek.co/2020/11/28/tesla-owners-remotely-view-what-autopilot-cameras-can-see/.

 

 

You can listen to all 939 previous episodes of this this for free, where you get your podcasts from, plus the blog https://www.evnewsdaily.com/ – remember to subscribe, which means you don’t have to think about downloading the show each day, plus you get it first and free and automatically.

 

It would mean a lot if you could take 2mins to leave a quick review on whichever platform you download the podcast.

 

And  if you have an Amazon Echo, download our Alexa Skill, search for EV News Daily and add it as a flash briefing.

 

Come and say hi on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter just search EV News Daily, have a wonderful day, I’ll catch you tomorrow and remember…there’s no such thing as a self-charging hybrid.

 

 

PHIL ROBERTS / ELECTRIC FUTURE (PREMIUM PARTNER)

BRAD CROSBY (PREMIUM PARTNER)

AVID TECHNOLOGY (PREMIUM PARTNER)

PORSCHE OF THE VILLAGE CINCINNATI (PREMIUM PARTNER)

AUDI CINCINNATI EAST (PREMIUM PARTNER)

VOLVO CARS CINCINNATI EAST (PREMIUM PARTNER)

NATIONALCARCHARGING.COM and ALOHACHARGE.COM  (PREMIUM PARTNER)

DEREK REILLY FROM THE EV REVIEW IRELAND YOUTUBE CHANNEL (PREMIUM PARTNER)

RICHARD AT RSYMONS.CO.UK – THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE SPECIALIST (PREMIUM PARTNER)

 

DAVID AND LISA ALLEN (PARTNER)

OEM AUDIO OF NEW ZEALAND AND EVPOWER.CO.NZ (PARTNER)

GARETH HAMER

eMOBILITY NORWAY HTTPS://WWW.EMOBILITYNORWAY.COM/  (PARTNER)

BOB BOOTHBY – MILLBROOK COTTAGES AND ELOPEMENT WEDDING VENUE (PARTNER)

DARIN MCLESKEY FROM DENOVO REAL ESTATE (PARTNER)

JUKKA KUKONEN FROM WWW.SHIFT2ELECTRIC.COM

RAJEEV NARAYAN (PARTNER)

 

ALAN ROBSON (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

ALAN SHEDD (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

ALEX BANAHENE (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

ALEXANDER FRANK @ https://www.youtube.com/c/alexsuniverse42

ANDERS HOVE (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

ANDREA JEFFERSON (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

ANDREW GREEN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

ASEER KHALID (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

ASHLEY HILL (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

BÅRD FJUKSTAD (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

BRIAN THOMPSON (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

BRUCE BOHANNAN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

CHARLES HALL (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

CHRIS HOPKINS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

CHRISTOPHER BARTH (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

COLIN HENNESSY AND CAMBSEV (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

CRAIG COLES (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

CRAIG ROGERS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

DAMIEN DAVIS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

DAVE DEWSON (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

DAVID FINCH (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

DAVID MOORE (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

DAVID PARTINGTON (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

DAVID PRESCOTT (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

DON MCALLISTER / SCREENCASTSONLINE.COM (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

ERU KYEYUNE-NYOMBI (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

FREDRIK ROVIK (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

GENE RUBIN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

GILBERTO ROSADO (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

GEOFF LOWE (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

HEDLEY WRIGHT (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

IAN GRIFFITHS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

IAN SEAR (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

IAN (WATTIE) WATKINS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

JACK OAKLEY (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

JAMES STORR (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

JIM MORRIS (EXECUTIVE PRODICERS)

JON AKA BEARDY MCBEARDFACE FROM KENT EVS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

JON MANCHAK (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

JUAN GONZALEZ (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

KEN MORRIS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

KEVIN MEYERSON (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

KYLE MAHAN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

LARS DAHLAGER (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

LAURENCE D ALLEN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

LEE BROWN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

LUKE CULLEY (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)...