Volkswagen AG owns Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, Scout, and Volkswagen. VinGroup owns the VinFast automotive brand, as well as VinHomes, VinBigData, VinBioCare, and VinBrain. Going forward, its brands are Jaguar, Range Rover, Defender, and Discovery. Tata Motors owns JLR (formerly known as Jaguar and Land Rover). Overseas, Citroen, DS Automobiles, Opel, Peugeot, and Vauxhall are among the other Stellantis car brands. are now under Stellantis: Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Jeep, Maserati, and Ram. The name is explained as being rooted in the Latin verb “stello” meaning “to brighten with stars.” The FCA brands sold in the U.S. Stellantis is the corporation formed from the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Peugeot S.A. Rivian Automotive owns Rivian, an electric car company focused on SUVs and trucks. Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance owns Infiniti, Mitsubishi, and Nissan. Hyundai Motor Group owns Genesis, Hyundai, and Kia. And it formed an electric car company with Sony, called Sony Honda Mobility that has the Afeela brand. ![]() GM has a formal partnership with Honda to co-develop EVs. General Motors owns Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, and GMC. owns Fisker, reborn electric car brand that has partnered with Magna-Steyr to build its vehicles. and the brands they currently offer here.īMW Group owns BMW, Mini, and Rolls-Royce.įisker Inc. Here’s a list of the major car corporations that sell in the U.S. *Retired brand, but many are still sold as used cars. Saab *: brand owned by Saab AB assets owned by National Electric Vehicle Sweden Rivian: Rivian Automotive, with investments from Amazon and Ford, among others. Nissan : Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance Mitsubishi : Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance Land Rover (soon to be retired): Tata Motors Infiniti : Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance But as grounds for optimism go, this conversation offered plenty.Here we list each major car brand and its parent corporation-Brand: Parent Company-including some retired brands whose products are still readily available as used cars. That left a lot of questions open to debate - including to whom Lucid might license their technology. His position was that an affordable car with only a 150-mile range could be widely accepted if it could be charged quickly enough. “Efficiency is the key to unlock the door for an affordable EV for the future,” Rawlinson said - a statement that applied to both automotive engineering and infrastructure. Rawlinson argued that miles per kilowatt-hour were of paramount importance, and said that he foresaw a wider adoption of electric cars when consumers could buy smaller (and more affordable) cars with smaller battery packs if the infrastructure existed for widespread fast charging. And that can be licensed to others to manufacture.” But the route towards a car which is $50,000 will be unlocked by the advanced technology that Lucid is creating and developing today. “Lucid may play in the $50,000 to $250,000 price range. “That’s not going to come any time soon,” Rawlinson said. Keen pressed Rawlinson on issues of affordability, asking if Rawlinson foresaw a car that could travel between 300 to 500 miles on a single charge for under $50,000. ![]() ![]() Rawlinson spoke about the importance of “defining a brand.” He went on to tell Keen that “it takes more money to industrialize a high-end car than a low-end car.” It was here that Keen first raised the subject of affordability - the Lucid Air has earned high marks, but its price tag will put it out of range for many buyers. Rawlinson went on to speak about “extraordinary efficiency” in battery packs. “I’ve spent my entire career engineering cars,” Rawlinson said of his perspective on the industry. In an interview with journalist Andrew Keen, Rawlinson addressed the work Lucid Motors has done to date, and where they might go from here. As it turns out, Lucid Motors CEO Peter Rawlinson - the former chief engineer of Tesla’s Model S program - has some thoughts on how to close that gap, and what role Lucid might play in it. If you’ve been following the electric vehicle space over the last few years, you’ve seen a lot of promising cars and trucks announced - even as the country seems to be a long way from having EVs be the majority of vehicles sold each year.
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