Europe is lagging behind China!

Chinese manufacturers came in force to the Munich show, bringing with them many vehicles. The leaders of the various European brands all went there with their little comments.

The Munich fair opens its doors to the public today. For the past few days, we have been witnessing a whole bunch ads novelty of European car groups between concepts and production models.

A fair full of novelties

In Munich, we had the right to the presentation of the new E-TECH stage from Renault et Audi which showed us the interior of the next production version of its Q6 e-tron. . On the concept side, Mercedes presented its concept CLABMW, son concept Vision New class et Volkswagen, son concept d’ID.GTI.

declarations and declarations

During this fair, the CEO automotive groups also made the trip with their new products. Everyone went from their little comment on the bataille what is Europe doing in the face of China in the field of electric mobility.

Luca de Meo, CEO of the Renault group, says:

“It must be a bataille, Chinese manufacturers are clearly very competitive in the electric car value chain. I think they have a generation ahead of uswe have to catch up very quickly”

Olivier Zipse, CEO of BMW, says:

Chinese trademarks representing “a risque is imminent” for European car manufacturers. “The base car market segment will disappear or will not be exploited by European manufacturers”.

They are not the only leaders to speak at the Munich show on this subject. Ola Kallenius, CEO of Mercedes-Benz, decides to take sport as an analogy. Indeed, the manager compares this battle for electromobility to a marathon whose company is currently only at the eighth or ninth kilometer.

Others, like Volkswagen Group CEO Olivier Blume, remain optimistic:

“We have the know-how in terms of vehicles, we have the level of quality. And we have a brand heritage. The new comers don’t have that«

It must be said that European automotive groups can be worried about Chinese manufacturers. The sales figures of the various brands such as BYD and MG continue to grow on the old continent.

It’s very simple, sales have increased by almost 55 % to reach 820,000 over the last seven months!