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Ford has turned to Renault to develop two small electric cars for the European market.

They'll arrive in 28, the executive Jim Farley.

The boss at Ford says the deal cuts costs and improves profitability

after Ford recorded an $8.2 billion full year loss last year. Their Model E division's been

hemorrhaging money. They've been making the Puma Gen E Explorer and Capri in Europe in a deal

with Volkswagen for the latter two vehicles there.

Think of it as the Volkswagen 94 or 95 if you like in Ford clothing.

However, going forward in the United States, they'll be rolling out the Universal EV Platform.

The first is going to be a mid-sized truck, call it the Maverick, if you will, whereas in Europe, we'll get Renaos rebadged as Ford's.

BYD want to bring small plug-in hybrids to Europe because, well, frankly, that market is empty of the 2.24 million small SUV sold in Europe last year.

3,500 had a plug-in hybrid power trade.

BYD want to change that with the Ato2,

their DMI technology we normally find in the larger cars like the CLU.

We've been doing really good business in Europe,

now rolling it out to smaller cars like the Attoe that has a little 18 kilowattow hour battery.

It'll do 90 kilometers on electric power alone.

And the competition, well, at that price point in segment, there isn't any.

BMW and Eon have launched Germany's first vehicle to grid offer for private customers as a turnkey solution.

They're doing it with their IX3, the first

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