French factories produced 4 million engines in 2018
- France currently has four engine production plants: Trémery and Douvrin belonging to the PSA group, Cléon which belongs to Renault, and Onnaing which belongs to Toyota. These four factories have produced 4 million engines in 2018 vs 5 million in 2008. There are almost twice as many engines manufactured in France as vehicles because many engines are exported to other PSA, Renault and Toyota European factories . The Trémery plant is the largest (1.5 million engines produced in 2018, producing 100% diesel engines), followed by the Douvrin plant (1.2 million engines, producing 100% petrol engines), Cléon (900,000 engines, producing 45% diesel engines and 45% gasoline engines) and Onnaing (400,000 engines, of which 75% are gasoline engines).
- With the collapse of sales of diesel cars on the French market and more generally on the European market, car manufacturers have had to respond quickly to the new demand, replacing part of the diesel engines production (D) with petrol engines production (G). In 2018, for the first time in two decades, engine plants located in France will produce more gasoline engines than diesel engines. The production of electric motors is still modest (less than 85,000 in 2018, all produced in Cléon), as is that of hybrid engines (105,000 units, all produced at Onnaing). But with the launch of electric and hybrid models planned by Renault and PSA, this production is expected to grow rapidly over the next few years. PSA ,for example, plans to launch hybrid engine production in 2022 on the Trémery site for an annual production of 900,000 electric motors per year (without specifying as of which year).
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