Because of the “challenging market in Europe”, the car manufacturer Opel and several of his sister brands in the Stellantis Group have to temporarily stop their production. As an Opel spokeswoman confirmed on Wednesday, the work in Eisenach will be closed for two days in October. The production pace must be adapted to the weak demand so that the camps shrink. Short-time work has not been requested for this, the two days should be compensated for via the working hours account of the employees, it is said. The plan to offer only fully electrically operated vehicles by 2030 has given up Stellantis under the leadership of his new CEO Antonio Filosa, now you focus on hybrid models. At the same time, the current model offer is struggling with sales problems, because in the weak market the competition has also become very hard, not least through Chinese providers. Inspection of declining sales figures, Stellantis places a temporary production break at six European locations in France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain, as the French economic newspaper “Les Echos” reported. Stellantis in France confirmed that the Poissy plant near Paris was closed for two weeks; According to a group spokesman in Italy, a work at Naples is to interrupt the production of the Fiat Panda and the Alfa Romeo Tonal for a week or almost two weeks. In Madrid, the car farm is scheduled to rest for 14 days. More on the topic in July, in July for the first half of 2025, a loss of billions had reported and referred to the stricter American customs policy, among other things. As a sign of hope, the company rates that the sale of hybrid vehicles (plug-in and classic hybrid) run well. With models such as Citroën C 3, Fiat Grande Panda and Opel Frontera, the market share in Europe, for which Stellantis expects 30 countries, rose by a good 4 percentage points to 15.6 percent by the end of August. Stellantis describes itself as the market leader in this segment. Sometimes commercial vehicles would have cut off well. According to the Italian Brokerhaus Equita, the production stop serves to protect operational circulation with the aim of binding less capital through unsuccessful inventory.
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