The Douai plant will be able to produce up to 400,000 electric cars per year
- Renault has announced that the French plant in Douai (Hauts de France region) which currently produces the Scenic, Espace and Talisman will be reassigned to the production of electric cars and will be able to produce up to 400,000 cars of this type from 2030.
- This volume corresponds to what the Douai plant produced during the period 1997-2000 (after the launch of the first generation of the Renault Scenic compact MPV) and during the period 2003-2005 (after the launch of the second generation of the Renault Scenic).
- Since 2005, production at the Douai plant has been steadily declining, dropping to 300,000 units in 2007, 200,000 in 2010, 100,000 in 2014 and 50,000 in 2020. This phenomenon is partly due to the drop of the demand on compact MPVs which have been supplanted by SUVs. Scenic, Espace and Talisman will be removed from the production lines between 2022 and 2023.
- The production program announced for the Douai plant concerns the future electric Megane e-Tech electric (2022), the future electric SUV (2023), the future electric R5 (2024) which should succeed the Renault Zoé and the future electric R4 (2025) which should succeed the Renault Twingo ZE. The Renault Zoé will no longer be produced in Flins from 2024, this factory then abandoning its status as a vehicle assembly site. In addition to these four electric cars produced in Douai, two electric cars produced in Dieppe, marketed under the Alpine brand, will be added. Finally, the battery electric versions of Renault Kangoo, Mercedes Citan and electric Nissan will be assembled at the Maubeuge plant. A total of nine electric vehicles will be produced in Renault plants in 2025.
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