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The Mondial de l’Auto is back in Paris after the interruption of the Covid years. It is the rendezvous of vehicle manufacturers of all kinds, less and less thermal and more and more electric. The energy and climate crisis is on everyone’s mind, in a more than complicated context for the automotive industry. Supply chain and purchasing power issues are weighing on the market.
During this 2022 edition, the Chinese manufacturers came in force to Paris to try, despite the international situation, to conquer the European market with vehicles packed with technology and, if we are to believe their leaders, more respectful of the environment. environment, which naturally remains to be proven. Faced with the Chinese, many absent from the Europeans: neither Volkswagen, nor BMW, nor Mercedes, nor Ferrari. Only Renault and Stellantis, 6th global group resulting from the merger between PSA Peugeot Citroën and Fiat Chrysler, are present. Its general manager Carlos Tavares gave an interview to Éco d’ici Éco d’ailleurs, making particularly offensive remarks against the decisions of the European Union.
OUR GUESTS :
– Carlos Tavares, CEO of Stellantis Group.
– Fei Yao, vice-president of the Chinese manufacturer GWM (Great Wall Motors), in charge of the European market
– Clement Molizon, general delegate of AVERE (French association for the development of electric mobility.
OUR REPORT :
Converting a car factory to the production of electric vehicles does not happen with a magic wand. Illustration at the Stellantis factory in Sochaux (eastern France) with the report by Theo Renaudonjournalist in the economics department of RFI.
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SOCHAUX STELLANTIS REPORT
In the second part of the show, Éco d’ici, Éco d’ailleurs looks at the automobile market in Africa where, despite a nascent industry, financing and supply difficulties, manufacturers are emerging. This is the case in Morocco, South Africa, but also in Kenya.
OUR GUESTS :
-Faouzi Annajah, managing director of NamX, a hydrogen-powered vehicle.
– Nicolas Guibert Managing Director of Mobius Motors, a start-up based in Kenya.
OUR REPORT :
Morocco is one of the most advanced African countries in this automotive sector. But the crisis is everywhere. How to sell vehicles in this period of inflation, without forgetting the difficulties of supply? Victor Mauriatour correspondent in Rabat, went to meet the professionals.
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MOROCCO AUTOMOTIVE REPORT
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