Chinese carmaker Chery says Spanish plant to be among main export facilities worldwide

BARCELONA : Chinese language carmaker Chery acknowledged on Friday a newly-acquired Barcelona plant will probably be idea to be one of its main exporting services and products worldwide, aiming to procure 150,000 vehicles a year by 2029 in a joint enterprise with Spanish agency EV Motors.

Production will initiate up at the dwell of the summer at a plant that Eastern carmaker Nissan shut down in 2021. Chery will initiate manufacturing of its Omoda 5 electric automobile (EV), and rent 150 outmoded Nissan employees, acknowledged EV Motors’ chief government Pedro Calef at the plant’s presentation.

Next year, two extra fashions of automobile will probably be produced and overall the plant will procure each EVs and combustion engine vehicles, he acknowledged, including that each companies are committed to recovering as much as 1,250 jobs that were lost with Nissan’s closure of the plant.