While consumers outside of Scandinavia are moving away from electric cars, car brands are increasingly turning to hybrids. Now Chinese Xpeng is heading in that direction.
It is a car sale with lumps in it when it comes to electric cars, which causes more and more car brands to throw money at the development of hybrid models.
Most recently, Volvo has announced that you cannot do without the petrol engine after all. And now even Xpeng, which normally builds electric cars, is breaking new ground with a plug-in hybrid.
This is written by several Chinese media – including Cnevpost .
The charging hybrid will be built on much of the same structure and therefore platform on which the current SUV G9 is made. It is rumored that the car will have a starting price of just under 200,000 Danish kroner at home in China as early as 2025.
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However, it is unlikely that a plugin hybrid from Xpeng will ever make it to the Danish market. Even though plugin hybrids actually have artificial charge ratios for some time yet.
The Chinese are far from the only ones who are now looking in the direction of hybrid cars. Volkswagen and Mercedes have both said they will now spend billions of euros developing 'hyper-efficient' hybrid engines. Volkswagen is ready to take the money directly from a pool for electric cars.
And at Ford, they have rolled a ceiling to only sell electric cars in Europe from 2030 all together. The electric cars have felt it, too. The internal department, Model e, loses the equivalent of 1 million Danish kroner every time an all-electric Ford leaves the assembly line.
And they are not alone in this, although the amount of money that the car brands put on electric cars is very different. Volkswagen itself believes that the brand 'earns almost nothing on electric cars', while Rivian and Lucid both lose astronomical sums on each and every electric car.
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