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All electrical plans of Stellantis in Serbia

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All electrical plans of Stellantis in Serbia

Stellantis, new electric car produced in Serbia since 2024. Fiat 500 Ls are currently being built at the Kragujevac plant. Here are all the details

For years, the Fiat plant in Kragujevac in Serbia has been smoke in the eyes of the Italian trade unions, representing the relocation to countries where the workforce costs less that has stolen several orders from the tricolor poles. In the last period Kragujevac had produced the Fiat 500L, now at the end of its career and its survival had been questioned by a possible rationalization of the production units in the Old Continent. Its possible closure had been almost certain at the beginning of this year, when production had been slowed down to the point of stopping and several workers had been deployed to the plant in Trnava, Slovakia, with all due respect to the rumors that said that in Kragujevac Stellantis would have produced the next electric Panda which, it is known, will no longer be made in Italy.

STELLANTIS OPENS A LINE FOR EV CARS IN SERBIA

Now doubts and fears about the fate of the Kragujevac factory have been swept away following the meeting, on the morning of April 28, between the CEO of Stellantis, Carlos Tavares , and the President of the Republic of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić . Stellantis, as reported by the Energy Oltre agency , will in fact install a new electric platform in the Serbian plant in Kragujevac, which is 33% owned by the state of Serbia.

"Today – said Vučić on the sidelines of the meeting with Tavares – is an important day for our country, we are starting a new era in investments in Serbia: we have signed an agreement with Stellantis for the financing of an electric car that will be produced in Kragujevac ".

WILL THREE MODELS BE DEVELOPED IN SERBIA?

In short, Fiat will remain in Serbia, although Stellantis has not disclosed the content of the investments and the industrial plan at the moment. All we know we owe instead to the enthusiastic declarations of the President of the Republic of Serbia, who spoke first of all of the production of a Fiat electric car, perhaps the new B segment supermini promised in recent weeks by Fiat CEO Olivier Francois, for then add that the agreements cover the production of two other models and in this regard it has been hypothesized that they may be EV Peugeot and Chrysler city cars, even if the rumors persist that they would like the Kragujevac plant as the cradle of the next electric Panda. We remind you that Stellantis will disclose the results relating to deliveries and revenues for the first quarter of 2022 next Thursday 5 May 2022.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/tutti-i-piani-di-stellantis-per-la-serbia-cosa-accadra-allo-stabilmento-fiat/ on Thu, 28 Apr 2022 13:21:06 +0000.