The Stellantis plant in Eisenach will produce electric vehicles from 2024
- The Stellantis site in Eisenach, located in eastern Germany, which has seen its production volume plummet over the past ten years, from 170,000 units in 2013 to 50,000 in 2022, will produce the new generation of the Opel Grandland (C-Segment SUV based on the same platform shared with the Peugeot 3008/Citroën C5-Aircross/DS 7 Crossback) which will be available in thermal, plug-in hybrid (PHEV) and battery electric (BEV) versions.
- The future Opel Grandland will be launched in the second half of 2024 and will use the STLA Medium platform of the new generation of the Peugeot 3008 which will be presented at the end of 2023 for a launch onto the market in early 2024. This new platform, which replaces PSA's EMP2 platform, allows to produce on the same basis ICE, hybrid and electric vehicles.
- Remember that the Opel brand (like its British cousin Vauxhall) has announced that it wants to completely switch to battery electric vehicles production from 2028. What is the share of electrified vehicles at Opel in 2022? Last year, the Corsa-e, Astra-e, Combo-e, Vivaro-e and Movano-e models accounted for a 17% share of Opel's total sales, including 14% BEV and 3% PHEV.
- This proportion is close to what we have at BMW (18% of electrified vehicles including 11% of BEV and 7% of PHEV) and is better than Mercedes (13% of electrified vehicles including 6% of BEV and 7% of PHEV). It is above all better than Volkswagen, which is the direct competitor of Opel (10% of electrified vehicles including 7% of BEV and 3% of PHEV). Finally, it is comparable to Ford Europe (17% of electrified vehicles including 4% of BEV and 13% of PHEV), except that the share of BEV and PHEV are reversed compared to those of Opel.