The Renault plant in Cleon in the age of electric vehicles
- The Cleon plant (France) has been manufacturing combustion engines for Renault since the 1950s. Due to the new direction taken by manufacturers following the various European governance decisions to reduce CO2 emissions, this plant has been transformed to gradually produce electric motors. It will be the only Renault to produce electric motors. It was in 2011 that the transition began on the site with the manufacture of the electric motor (5AX) for the Renault Zoé, Twingo ZE, Kangoo ZE, Master ZE as well as the Smart EQ Fortwo and Forfour. In 2021, these models represented 150,000 electric motors. Since 2021, the Cleon plant has been manufacturing the electric motor (5DH) for the Clio, Captur and Arkana hybrids (identical on the HEV and PHEV), which represented 120,000 additional electric motors. Since 2022, it has been manufacturing a third electric motor (6AM) fitted to the Mégane E-Tech and the future Scénic E-Tech. A fourth less powerful electric motor (6AK) (100 kW instead of 160 kW) will be put into production in 2024 to be fitted to segment B electric cars (R4 and R5) and a fifth (7A) more powerful (200 kW ) to be mounted on the Alpine. The share of electric motors at the Cleon site will increase from 34% in 2021 to 68% in 2025 and 100% in 2030.
- Renault plans to produce 1,100,000 electric motors at Cleon in 2030, including 600,000 for electrics and 500,000 for hybrids and plug-in hybrids. In this context, the factories that currently produce internal combustion engines for Renault, such as Valladolid or Pitesti, will see their engine production volume decrease from year to year, but the assembly of vehicles will continue at these production sites.
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