The Stellantis group transfers the production of the EP engine to Hungary
- The Stellantis group has decided to transfer to Hungary the production of its EP petrol engine which is a four-cylinder block of 1400 cm3 and 1600 cm3 equipped today on the Citroën C5 Aircross, DS 3 Crossback, DS 7 Crossback, Peugeot 308, Peugeot 508, Peugeot 3008, Peugeot 5008 and Opel Grandland.
- This engine, whose origins date back to the time of the partnership between PSA and BMW on medium-capacity petrol engines, has seen its volume significantly reduced, as it only represents 218,000 units produced in 2020 out of a total of 2,4 million engines produced last year by PSA, or less than 10% of the total engine production of the carmaker.
- This engine will therefore be transferred in 2021 from the French plant in Douvrin to the Szentgotthard plant in Hungary (ex-Opel engine plant) which only produced 100,000 engines in 2020 (GM original engines). The Douvrin plant produced nearly 800,000 PSA engines last year, including 218,000 EP engines and 565,000 EB2 engines (three-cylinder 1,200 cc petrol).
- The objective of the carmaker is to boost the activity of the Szentgotthard plant, which would have continued to reduce its volume with the progressive end of GM origin engines, and to transform the activity of the Douvrin plant into a plant for producing batteries cells for electric cars from 2023. The Automotive Cells Company (ACC) joint venture that will produce these batteries cells is the result of a 50/50 partnership between Stellantis and the French battery producer Saft, a subsidiary of Total.
Note: This analysis was written before Stellantis announced the production at the Douvrinplant of the third generation of the EB 3-cylinder petrol engine. The corresponding analysis will be proposed soon.
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