The Stellantis group amplifies its production. It will manufacture 12 electric vehicles, compared to 6 today, including the future Citroën SUV in Rennes. The objective: “to make France a great automotive land of tomorrow”.
The automotive group Stellantis will produce “at short notice” 12 electric vehicles in France, compared to 6 today, including the future Citroën SUV in Rennes, announced Carlos Tavares, the group’s general manager, at the opening of the Auto Show in Paris, this Monday, October 17, 2022 .
The latter specified, alongside President Emmanuel Macron, that the Peugeot 308, 308 break and 408 electric will be produced in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin). The 3008 and 5008 electric SUVs will be produced in Sochaux (Doubs) and Citroën’s future electric SUV in Rennes.
“We are in the process of giving credibility to this trajectory that we have set for ourselves, that of obtaining two million electric vehicles produced in France in 2030”, greeted the President of the Republic during his visit to the Peugeot stand while congratulating him on having “already secured one million by 2026-2027”. “We will be there to support and accompany over the long term, to make France once again a great automotive land of tomorrow”, he promised.
The Franco-Italian-American group Stellantis, in which the French state is a shareholder, already produced the electric DS3 and Opel Mokka and electric utilities. Its competitor Renault, for its part, has multiplied the announcements concerning the production in France of its electric R4 and R5.
“All of our industrial sites in France now have a future ahead of them that is clear”, underlined the CEO of Stellantis, “and the technology necessary to face the competition, in particular the Chinese competition which you can see today on this Mondial de Paris”.
“The French sites of Stellantis are therefore all now electric and their productions will allow the company to be carbon neutral in 2038”, underlined the group in a press release.