NEURON EV

CES 2020 has been a busy place this year with more auto companies showing of prototypes and finally production ready auto's than ever before. We have seen so much including the latest in super dense solid state batteries for the EVs to motorcycles and bikes.
This year we now get to see the latest competition to Tesla and Rivian in a well funded California / China based EV auto company called NEURON EV. This company has a swiss army knife of a truck/suv auto as well as a Semi truck that they say is going into production in 2020.

The truck which is seen here in Silver has a sister truck that was running around the streets which is the following Black T-One.

All the details you could ever want can be found here on this truck: https://www.neuronev.co/new-products/t-one-p-gyrwr
The cool thing about this modular truck is that is can be more than a truck, a tractor, a van. there are no limits to how one can configure up this beast of an EV.

The seat options are an interesting take as you can go like how Tesla showed their Semi with a center driving position as a base 3 seat configuration of 3 captain chairs, or a single drivers captain chair and a bench seat behind for 4 people and go from there to cover a wide range of colors, materials, etc. in customizing your auto. 
While this company is looking at this modular truck and semi for the US, in china they will have many more auto options including their V.E.G.A. or Versatile Electric Grand Automobile.

The company has great plans and while they have only two models for the US market, China will get many more that includes a medium duty truck, a bus, a MAP or Multipurpose Autonomous Platform focused on shipping yards, a HUB or autonomous transportation auto, in addition to the car, semi and truck.
NEURON EV has not released any details about their hp / torque other than to say class leading at this time. Two wheel drive and All Wheel Drive will be the choices folks will have and talk of a base 300 mile range battery pack. More details are to come later this year.
First Press release of 2020 can be found here:
https://www.neuronev.co/01102020
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC69MUFfq-4W8qxUWcGltBUg
 

FORD MOTOR COMPANY FOURTH QUARTER 2019 U.S. SALES

 

 

 

2019

Q4

 

 

2018

% Cha nge

Year-to-Date

2019               2018

% Cha nge

SALES BY BRAND

Ford

568,507

581,386

-2.2

2,310,494

2,393,731

-3.5

Lincoln

33,355

28,307

17.8

112,204

103,587

8.3

Total vehicles

601,862

609,693

-1.3

2,422,698

2,497,318

-3.0

SALES BY TYPE

Cars

 

 

63,400

 

 

107,491

 

 

-41.0

 

 

349,091

 

 

486,024

 

 

-28.2

SUVs

208,387

217,343

-4.1

830,471

872,215

-4.8

Trucks

330,075

284,859

15.9

1,243,136

1,139,079

9.1

Total vehicles                                             601,862       609,693          -1.3             2,422,698      2,497,318          -3.0

FORD BRAND

Fiesta

 

 

7,315

 

 

15,212

 

 

-51.9

 

 

60,148

 

 

51,730

 

 

16.3

Focus

0

13,078

N/A

12,480

113,345

-89.0

C-MAX

0

213

N/A

38

6,683

-99.4

Fusion

32,137

48,636

-33.9

166,045

173,600

-4.4

Taurus

769

6,988

-89.0

9,924

28,706

-65.4

Police Interceptor Sedan

88

1,762

-95.0

3,427

7,382

-53.6

GT

42

24

75.0

229

126

81.7

Mustang

17,124

14,223

20.4

72,489

75,842

-4.4

Ford Cars

57,475

100,136

-42.6

324,780

457,414

-29.0

EcoSport

14,051

16,038

-12.4

64,708

54,348

19.1

Escape

47,587

62,178

-23.5

241,388

272,228

-11.3

Edge

37,621

35,184

6.9

138,515

134,122

3.3

Flex

6,147

4,150

48.1

24,484

20,308

20.6

Explorer

48,083

56,316

-14.6

168,309

227,732

-26.1

Police Interceptor Utility

3,201

8,385

-61.8

18,752

33,839

-44.6

Expedition

24,267

14,140

71.6

86,422

54,661

58.1

Ford SUVs

180,957

196,391

-7.9

742,578

797,238

-6.9

F-Series

233,952

230,312

1.6

896,526

909,330

-1.4

Ranger

33,059

0

N/A

89,571

0

N/A

E-Series

12,837

11,387

12.7

45,063

47,936

-6.0

Transit

36,885

31,331

17.7

153,868

137,794

11.7

Transit Connect

10,208

8,705

17.3

41,598

31,923

30.3

Heavy trucks

3,134

3,124

0.3

16,510

12,096

36.5

Ford Trucks

330,075

284,859

15.9

1,243,136

1,139,079

9.1

Ford Brand

568,507

581,386

-2.2

2,310,494

2,393,731

-3.5

LINCOLN BRAND

MKZ

 

 

4,080

 

 

4,931

 

 

-17.3

 

 

17,725

 

 

19,852

 

 

-10.7

Continental

1,845

2,424

-23.9

6,586

8,758

-24.8

Lincoln Cars

5,925

7,355

-19.4

24,311

28,610

-15.0

Corsair/MKC

7,549

6,971

8.3

25,815

26,241

-1.6

Nautilus/MKX

7,727

8,687

-11.1

31,711

28,573

11.0

MKT

275

540

-49.1

3,388

2,324

45.8

Aviator

6,424

0

N/A

8,323

0

N/A

Navigator

5,455

4,754

14.7

18,656

17,839

4.6

Lincoln SUVs

27,430

20,952

30.9

87,893

74,977

17.2

Lincoln Brand

33,355

28,307

17.8

112,204

103,587

8.3

Rumor has it that Ford is working on a V8 powered version of their Ranger Raptor currently sold in overseas markets. Only available in other parts of the world, the current Ranger Raptor is powered by a 2.0-liter 4-cylinder diesel that produces 210 horsepower and 369 lb.-ft of torque, but a report in Wheels magazine says that Ford Australia is working with an external engineering company to swap the 2.0 diesel for a 5.0-liter V8 from the Mustang GT.  The odd thing about this is that the Ranger Raptor 5.0 would be still built with the 2.0-liter diesel under the hood and then later converted to V8 gasoline power.
Expect power to be about the same as it makes in the Australian spec Mustang GT, a healthy 455 horsepower and 410 lb.-ft of torque. 
If it all comes together, the Ranger Raptor 5.0 is expected to go on sale in Australia next year, sold by Ford dealers and backed by the full 5-year warranty. For now, the Ranger Raptor remains forbidden fruit to the U.S. no matter what engine is under the hood.

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Rumor has it that Ford is working on a V8 powered version of their Ranger Raptor currently sold in overseas markets. Only available in other parts of the world, the current Ranger Raptor is powered by a 2.0-liter 4-cylinder diesel that produces 210 horsepower and 369 lb.-ft of torque, but a report in Wheels magazine says that Ford Australia is working with an external engineering company to swap the 2.0 diesel for a 5.0-liter V8 from the Mustang GT.  The odd thing about this is that the Ranger Raptor 5.0 would be still built with the 2.0-liter diesel under the hood and then later converted to V8 gasoline power.
Expect power to be about the same as it makes in the Australian spec Mustang GT, a healthy 455 horsepower and 410 lb.-ft of torque. 
If it all comes together, the Ranger Raptor 5.0 is expected to go on sale in Australia next year, sold by Ford dealers and backed by the full 5-year warranty. For now, the Ranger Raptor remains forbidden fruit to the U.S. no matter what engine is under the hood.

The Volkswagen brand is on track to introduce 34 models globally in 2020.  While some, like the ID.3, will be new to the portfolio, others are variants of familiar faces with many of those being electrified. Much stricter emissions rules come into effect in Europe starting January 1st and will force every company that sells on the continent to rethink their lineups.
For Volkswagen, that means that most of their internal combustion powered vehicles will gain an available hybrid powertrain. Volkswagen says they will be introducing hybrid versions from the Golf to the Tiguan, to the Touareg. There will also be a number of cars coming that aren't hybrids or EVs. The next generation Golf is coming to Europe in 2020 with GTI, GTD, R, and Wagon variants to follow, though not all will make it to the U.S.. The Atlas will receive a refresh and the Atlas Cross Sport goes into production soon. Over in Europe, VW will be launching the T-Roc Cabriolet, the Arteon Shooting Brake, and Tiguan R.  Plus there will be other announcements coming for the brand.  With that in mind, these 34 vehicles are just for the VW brand and don't count what Audi, SEAT, Skoda, are up to. So there is likely to be even more in the pipeline.
This whole push is to help get the Volkswagen brand to a 4 percent to 5 percent operating profit for 2020. 

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