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0:00 U.S. Car Inventory to Continue to Rise
0:44 BYD & SAIC Expand Shipping Fleets
1:49 Waymo Robotaxi Expected to Debut This Year
3:11 Stellantis Expands EU Recycling Business
4:12 Unique Autonomous Service Launched In Las Vegas
5:15 Ram Introduces New ProMaster EV
6:04 Stellantis Executive Change Correction
Story Links:
– U.S. Inventory Recovering: https://www.autonews.com/retail/new-vehicle-inventory-continue-rise-2024-cloud-theory-says
– BYD Car Ship: https://carnewschina.com/2024/01/11/byds-first-transport-ship-explorer-no-1-has-been-delivered-and-left-the-port/
– SAIC Wants More Car Ships: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/chinas-saic-set-add-14-vehicle-vessels-boost-exports-2024-01-17/
– Waymo Robotaxi Making Progress: https://carnewschina.com/2024/01/17/zeekr-waymo-robotaxi-m-vision-spotted-testing-in-china-ahead-of-us-launch/
– Stellantis Expands EU Car Recycling: https://www.media.stellantis.com/em-en/corporate-communications/press/valorauto-the-automotive-recycling-solution-opens-up-to-private-owners-in-france-belgium-and-luxembourg
– Remote Control Taxi from Vay: https://vay.io/press-release/vay-launches-commercial-driverless-mobility-service-with-remotely-driven-cars-in-las-vegas-nevada/
– Ram ProMaster EV: https://media.stellantisnorthamerica.com/newsrelease.do?id=25617&mid=1
– To read the transcript for today’s show click here: https://www.autoline.tv/daily/ad-3727-unique-autonomous-service-launched-in-las-vegas-ram-introduces-promaster-ev-waymo-robotaxi-expected-to-debut-this-year/
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The EV fad is crumbling: Hertz just dumped 20,000 EV’s into the used car market because nobody wants to drive them!
We sure don’t need any more China products showing up here enough already. So how does the electric van work in a commercial setting it is targeted for in cold weather places like Chicago today
This Chinese invasion is kind of silly. US and Europeans should stop these cars at the border and require Chinese auto companies to develop JVs with indigenous car companies in order to sell cars in these foreign countries.
A remote-driven Jonny Cab? What a goofy idea….
Tele-driver? My internet and phone are flawless with signal and latency. I'm sure like a lot in this world I'm supposed to pretend this will end well.
“Recovering from Inventory Shortages “ . . , a euphemism for “our sh*t ain’t selling”
Great show today everybody have a safe day
Most people have no idea that when these shipping fleets are operational, China can ship a car to California for far less money than Detroit can ship a car to California. No Teamsters union on the high seas… China is going to clobber both European and US firms. We are going to see a world of hurt as reasonably priced Chinese products sweep the middle and emerging markets. With global factory capacity approx. double the world demand, a bloodbath is going to happen by 2030. Going to be a lot of dead or "zombie" companies by then.
And how about as an industry they stamp out the bogus "delivery fee" and "signing fee" that are tacked onto the MSRP. I hate these quotation systems that show an MSRP only to add 2k at the end. Seems dishonest, and the FTC should crack down on this.
Coldest 3 days of the year broke Texas in the past, and are wreaking havoc in Chicago especially on EV's. In Norway it's cold way more often and they keep buying EV's… Are Americans EV's built differently or just not prepared?
Why is it "recovering from inventory shortage", but when it was EVS it was reported as not selling
Remote control taxis? So Cruize?
Very nice of Carlos to keep a few token Americans on the payroll.
what does inventory "ENDED at 2.7 million vehicles last year" mean? how does that data translate to "3 million per MONTH"? How is that even possible?
I like the teledriving concept for delivery of rental cars. Makes a lot more sense than having a human to deliver the vehicle who then needs a ride back home.
Algorithm…
In what business is excess inventory a positive? That makes no sense.
Some inventory, sure. The levels pre pandemic were ridiculous and now we're heading back to those levels. Makes no sense.
3 cents and 30 cents per minute for that Waymo taxi means between $1.80 and $18 per hour.
I must have missed something.
Big Respect for giving those corrections and doing it so promptly.
Probably a few lessons there we could all learn from.
ICE rsales reached its peak when GM sold 10M cars. The number has been decreasing since 2018. They will never reach pre pandemic numbers and there is a single reason. EV sales, In the US alone ev sales reached 1.2 M vehicles; that is 1.2 M less ICE car sales.during 2023. Now for 2024 there will be more ev models to choose, incentives, more infrastructure an even lower prices, while the ICE cars will raise in price for 4 years in a row. and at least 1.68 M ev sales for 2024
Do the brand CEOs really have a say?
VAY can also open an arcade video game shop. More realistic than GTA 😁
X-ray scanning vehicles is far quicker than the Munro approach and can give better information in some circumstances – particularly as it results in a full computer model of the vehicle
The Chevy Blazer EV ain't leaving anybody in the dust.
But I'm sure those startup's will assert themselves any day now.
At least somewhere in the evergreen dreams of channels like this one.