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Almost 250,000 new electric cars were approved in Germany in the first half of the year. Almost 36 percent more than in the same period last year, the market share of the Stromer climbed to 17.7 percent. Finally the e-boom starts?
Wait. Private customers in particular are still hesitant. And some knacks beautifully the electrical balance. In June, for example, with Great Wall Motor, a Chinese manufacturer with a gigantic growth rate of 256 percent appeared in the new registration statistics of the Federal Motor Transport Statistics. GWM allowed over 1000 new car, more than in the five months before. Were the electrical models of the ORA brand suddenly a sales hit?
Hardly. Almost 80 percent of Chinese cars landed at dealer courtyards and not for end customers. The background was, according to dealer circles, that an exemption for many of the cars would have expired in early July. They urgently had to be admitted. Accordingly, the vehicles do not meet the so-called GSR2 standard, which, among other things, prescribes certain driver assistance systems. If Great Wall had not registered the cars now, they would have been lost for the local market.
In autumn 2022, Gernot Döllner (57) was still strategy chief of the Volkswagen Group. At that time, he enforced to put on top models from Audi and Porsche on the so-called SSP-61 architecture and not, as you would have liked to have at SSP 51. Almost three years later, Döllner has now become an Audi boss, his decision slow down. The Porsche developers are far from being able to advance with the SSP 61 as hoped-it can be expected at the earliest at the earliest. Top models from Porsche, Bentley or Lamborghini have to wait, but above all: the Audi A8. The flagship of the Ingolstadt, in its current generation on the market since 2017, threatens to deteriorate from the factory. My colleague Michael Freitag reports about The unpleasant consequences of the platform bankruptcy
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Ford has according to the “Auto motor and sport”
set up a new record. Unfortunately none that you could be proud of. In the current year, the car manufacturer has already started 89 recall campaigns in the United States. According to the specialist magazine, there was no manufacturer even in a whole year. Over four million vehicles are affected, according to the analysts, Ford costs around four percent of the annual turnover.
Deepdrive: What cars really cost
Your own car is often presented as the second most expensive purchase according to a property. In some cases, this may be true, related to the pure purchase price. The platform Leasing market
The question has now investigated how much money drivers in Germany really spend on their vehicles during their lives. Not only for the purchase, also for workshops, insurance, fuel or electricity. The number can let you swallow: According to the analysis, an average of 496,400 euros.
A customer is good, two are better. One and the same product should not be sold to several interested parties. In Nuremberg, the public prosecutor’s office is investigating “two main suspects” of the car dealership Mertel Italo Cars
, who did exactly that with dozens of Ferrari models and that customers may have cheated by a three-digit million sum overall. That seems a lot to you? Us too. Customers must have paid massively. The investigator’s allegation is: fraud, forgery of documents and bankruptcy. Ferrari has now terminated the contract with the dealer.
Come through the week well.
Your Christoph Seyerlein
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