Stellantis will continue vehicles production at Ellesmere Port
- The PSA group, which had not yet merged with the FCA group, had announced that production of the future Opel Astra (scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2021) would be transferred from the two plants in Gliwice (Poland) and Ellesmere Port (United Kingdom) to the plant in Rüsselsheim (Germany). As a result, the plants in Gliwice and Ellesmere Port were exposed to closures.
- Today, the Stellantis group (created from the merger of PSA and FCA) announces that the Ellesmere Port plant will not close, as significant aid from the British state would have saved the plant. Stellantis has indicated that this plant will start from 2022 the production of battery electric versions of the Peugeot Partner, Citroën Berlingo, Opel Combo and Vauxhall Combo assembled until today at the Vigoplant (Spain) which is saturated due to the strong demand for the thermal versions as well as for the Peugeot 2008, also produced in this plant. In addition, the latest series of Citroën C4 Spacetourercontinues to be produced until 2022.
- The Stellantis group believes that the production volume of electric vehicles should increase considerably in the coming years and that it makes sense to create at the Ellesmere Port plant an electric vehicle production centerfor the Stellantis group. We can suppose that this plant, which produced only 32,000 vehicles in 2020, will host in the future battery electric versions of the Toyota ProAce City and future Fiat Doblo, based on the same platform as the Berlingo and Partner. The capacity of the Ellesmere Port plant is now 100,000 vehicles per year, but could be doubled by 2030 to face the demand.
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