Tomorrow Chery and EV Motors will sign an agreement

Barcelona, ​​(EFE).- The agreement of the Chinese automobile group Chery to produce electric vehicles in Barcelona will be signed tomorrow at the former Nissan facilities in the Free Zone, where it will start with the production of units of its Omoda brand and will continue with the production of the first model of the revived Ebro brand.

The event will be attended by the President of the Spanish Government Pedro Sánchez, the President of the Generalitat of Catalonia Pere Aragones and the Minister of Industry and Tourism Jordi Jereu as senior representatives of the two public administrations that are promoting Chery Landing in Spain.

Months of negotiations

After months of negotiations, Spanish electric vehicle maker EV-Motors, the parent company of Ebro, struck a deal last Tuesday with Chery Automobile, a subsidiary of the Asian group and China’s largest car exporter.

The agreement marks the Chinese automaker group’s first entry into Europe and will allow for the reindustrialization of a plant that Japanese firm Nissan abandoned at the end of 2021, leaving around 2,500 workers unemployed and having a very negative impact on the economy. fabric from suppliers.

Namely, the industrial project that Chery will develop in the Free Zone will begin in the third quarter of this year with 150 of the group of 600 former employees who were left in labor limbo after debilitating unemployment.

The rest will join later and new employees can be hired as the number of workers is expected to reach thousands.

I will assemble the Omod 5 model.

Chery will first assemble units of the Omoda 5 model, and later, in the fourth quarter of the year, will begin production of Ebro branded vehicles, which are the result of licensing older Nissan models such as the electric pickup truck.

Ebro has created a “joint venture” with the Chinese manufacturer to produce cars at the Zona Franca plant, located on a site of approximately 300,000 m2, which is in high demand for all economic activities due to its proximity to the airport and port. Barcelona.

Omoda has chosen Spain as its first market in Europe, from where it wants to begin its expansion throughout Europe, for which it is rolling out its own network of official dealers.