Volkswagen AG and companions will make investments 10 billion euros to make electrical automobiles and batteries in Spain.
German carmaker Volkswagen AG and companions will make investments 10 billion euros ($10.6 billion) to make electrical automobiles and batteries in Spain, its chief government mentioned on Thursday, 3 billion euros greater than it had beforehand dedicated.
The firm additionally introduced a partnership take care of Spain’s largest energy utility Iberdrola, which is able to arrange a photo voltaic park to partially energy the battery plant to be constructed within the municipality of Sagunto close to Valencia.
Iberdrola will make investments 500 million euros within the electrification plan, its Chief Executive Officer Ignacio Sanchez Galan advised reporters, with out giving additional particulars.
Volkswagen mentioned in March it could make investments 7 billion euros to construct a battery plant and produce electrical automobiles at its two automobile factories in Spain, however CEO Herbert Diess mentioned that determine had been raised to 10 billion with new companions on board.
“We will electrify the second-largest car producer in Europe (Spain) with a new giga-factory of batteries and the production of electric cars in two plants,” Diess advised an occasion in Sagunto, including the plan was to create “a full ecosystem of suppliers from lithium extraction to the assembly of batteries”.
Diess talking on a go to with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to the location the place the manufacturing facility might be constructed.
The German carmaker goals to start out constructing the 40-gigawatt-hour (GWh) plant within the first quarter of 2023, with serial manufacturing to start out by 2026. By 2030, the location will make use of greater than 3,000 employees, Volkswagen mentioned.
Spain, Europe’s largest carmaker after Germany, final month launched a bidding course of for about 3 billion euros in loans and grants to advertise electrical car (EV) manufacturing. Volkswagen and its Spanish unit SEAT have offered a bid.
Winners of the PERTE funds, as this system that consists largely of European Union pandemic aid funds is thought, might be chosen this yr.
The firm will make investments 3 billion euros within the plant in Sagunto, one other 3 billion euros in 4 SEAT factories, together with the Martorell plant close to Barcelona, ​​and 1 billion in Pamplona, ​​it mentioned.
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