PSA increases its imports of petrol engines from China
- Faced with falling sales of diesel cars in Europe, car manufacturers who are well established in diesel engine production sometimes have difficulties to adapt, that is to say to quickly transfer a certain volume of diesel engine production to petrol engine production.
- At PSA, for example, the Tremery plant (the world's leading diesel engine site), which produced 1.74 million diesel engines in 2007, produced only 1.14 million units in 2017, a drop of 600,000 units. The site’s diesel engine production should continue to decline over the next five years, although Opel / Vauxhall models will gradually be equipped with PSA ( rather than GM, Isuzu or Fiat ) diesel engines. The Tremery site is expected to produce electric motors in large quantities starting in 2022.
- The problem is at the Douvrin site that produces the group's gasoline engines. Its production volume has increased from 785,000 units in 2016 to 1 million in 2017 and is expected to increase to 1.45 million units in 2020 and even 1.65 million in 2022, including future Opel / Vauxhall models equipped with these engines. Currently, the capacities of the Douvrin site are already saturated and PSA must import gasoline engines from its Chinese subsidiary Dongfeng-PSA: 100,000 units in 2017 and 200,000 in 2018. The situation should improve from 2019 thanks to gasoline engine production from the Tremery plant.
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