Moving 40% of Transit Connect production to Mexico would have jeopardized the jobs of 400 of the Almussafes, Spain, engine plant’s 1,000 employees, union sources say.
SEAT, a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group, has fallen on hard times thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, with sales of only 190,000 units in the first half, compared with 310,000 in same-period 2019.
With demand increasing, Spanish automakers plan to build 100,000 units in the last four months of the year, which would bring full-year output to 2.2 million. European markets are the destination for 85% of cars built...
Unveiled at the 2019 Geneva Auto Show and due to go on sale in 2021, the el-Born will be built on SEAT parent Volkswagen’s MEB mechanical platform for EVs.
Madrid workers agreed in 2017 to temporary rotating layoffs that had 1,300 workers staffing one production line. In return, PSA agreed to award the plant a new model and fulfills that promise with the announcement of...
The Peugeot e-Expert, Citroen e-Jumpy and Opel Vivaro-e will be offered with two types of batteries, 50 and 75 kWh, that offer ranges of 142 miles to 205 miles, respectively. PSA also is looking into hydrogen fuel...
Failure of the Pulsar in 2018 and the cessation of production of the NV200 Diesel, leaving only the battery-electric eNV200, left the Barcelona plant operating at only 25% of its 200,000-unit annual capacity.