Car: Chery China plant to hire 1,250 people – 04/19/2024 at 2:33 am.

Chinese carmaker Chery and its Spanish partner Ebro-EV Motors announced on Friday that they plan to eventually create 1,250 jobs and produce 150,000 vehicles, mostly electric, at their Barcelona plant.

Cars from Chery and Ebro-EV Motors, produced as part of a majority joint venture owned by the Spanish group, will be assembled at the former Nissan site closed in December 2021, where around 3,000 people worked.

This joint venture will employ “150 workers in the coming months” and will eventually have “1,250 stations”, outlined in a press release the two partners, who formalized their agreement at the factory on Friday in the presence of the Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez and. Chery Vice President Guibing Zhang.

Chery and Ebro, a Spanish company specializing in the production of electric pick-ups founded on the ashes of the old brand of trucks and utility vehicles that disappeared in 1987, announced their agreement on Tuesday, the result of long negotiations between the Spanish leaders and the manufacturer of Chinese.

This project “will lead to the creation of wealth and above all, in the creation and maintenance of jobs”, welcomed, in a speech, Pedro Sánchez, seeing in the announcement of Chery and Ebro “a sign of the industrial renewal process “at work. ” across Spain.

In their press release, Chery and Ebro say they are betting on the production of “50,000 cars” in 2027 and “around 150,000 cars by 2029”, a number that could continue to increase after this date.

Chery, known for its affordable cars, is the second Chinese brand to announce a European establishment, after giant BYD, which formalized in February the construction of its first European factory in Hungary. However, the latter will be operational in just three years.

This public group founded in 1997 in Wuhu, eastern China, sold 1.88 million vehicles in 2023, including 937,000 abroad. It is establishing itself as the largest Chinese car dealer in the world.

Chery’s decision comes amid tensions between Beijing and Brussels, which opened an investigation earlier in April into public subsidies given by Chinese authorities to electric cars, which are accused of distorting competition.