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
 

MERCEDES-BENZ USA Sales -- December 2019


 
Mercedes-Benz

Passenger Vehicles

 

Dec-19

 

Dec-18

 

Monthly %

 

YTD 2019

 

YTD 2018

 

Yearly %

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A-CLASS

1,166

_

_

17,641

_

_

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

B-CLASS*

0

1

-100.0%

8

135

-94.1%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CLA

1,344

1,708

-21.3%

12,400

22,556

-45.0%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

C-CLASS

3,412

6,799

-49.8%

49,153

60,409

-18.6%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

E-CLASS/CLS

3,343

5,042

-33.7%

40,113

46,422

-13.6%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

S-CLASS

1,087

1,486

-26.9%

12,528

14,978

-16.4%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SLC

147

152

-3.3%

1,840

1,993

-7.7%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SL

140

158

-11.4%

1,690

2,126

-20.5%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AMG GT

445

136

227.2%

4,208

1,525

175.9%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GLA

2,096

2,397

-12.6%

22,137

24,136

-8.3%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GLB

1,173

_

_

1,173

_

_

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GLC

6,436

7,294

-11.8%

73,650

69,727

5.6%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GLE

5,787

3,734

55.0%

49,980

46,010

8.6%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GLS

2,902

2,664

8.9%

22,225

21,972

1.2%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

G-CLASS

816

445

83.4%

7,348

3,970

85.1%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

30,294

32,016

-5.4%

316,094

315,959

0.0%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vans1

4,985

4,116

21.1%

41,635

38,178

9.1%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MBUSA

Combined Total

 

Dec-19

 

Dec-18

 

Monthly %

 

YTD 2019

 

YTD 2018

 

Yearly %

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GRAND TOTAL

35,279

36,132

-2.4%

357,729

354,137

1.0%

 

*Model has been discontinued in the U.S. market.

1 Mercedes-Benz, Freightliner Sprinter and Metris Vans are sold and marketed in the U.S. by Mercedes-Benz USA and

Daimler Vans USA, respectively.


 

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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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. 

BMW unveiled the Concept iX3 at the Beijing Motor show in April of 2018.  The overall look of the crossover is somewhat conventional, but with the traditional kidney grille being closed off for aerodynamic reasons and special aerodynamic wheels.
The production iX3 will be rear-wheel drive only and have a peak rating of 286 horsepower and 295 lb-ft of torque. All of that power comes from a single motor. The motor is BMW's fifth-generation eDrive powertrain developed solely in house. BMW says that the technology used in this motor is scalable and thus can be used in different automotive segments. 
The battery is a 74-kWh pack that is capable of powering the iX3 for 273 miles on the European WLTP cycle (EPA rating will be lower).
The iX3 will be built in Shenyang, China through a joint venture BMW Brilliance Automotive starting in 2020.
Once the iX3 goes on the market, it will be BMW's first vehicle to be available in gasoline, diesel, plug-in hybrid, and pure electric drive configurations.

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