No Italy for Chinese Chery, European production will be in Spain

Minister Adolfo Urso is sure that he can attract Chinese builders to our countryand has repeatedly returned to the “getting to know each other” phase between characters with multiple brands.

However, one of the possibilities has already disappeared, as Cherry in the last few hours it has formalized an agreement that goes in a different direction than what the minister of Made in Italy expected. However Urso had discreetly revealed himself, suggesting that an announcement could be imminent: “We will announce when things happenas it happened with electronics when everyone said we were behind, so it will happen with the car system. When there is an agreement, as happened with the Silicon box in the field of microelectronics, we will announce any agreement.”

But almost at the same time Chery has formalized the agreement in Spainwhich will therefore be the European country where the company will produce its cars, to make them fully European, and therefore avoid the possibility of additional import duties.

He will do so especially in Barcelona, in a free zone created in the 1950s, which enjoys one additional customs status. Here Chery has received the help of a local company, Ebro EV-Motors, which will be possible to create a joint venture.

There is also a factory ready for use, which was previously owned by Nissan, and also the workers themselves, who receive subsidies from the departure of the Japanese manufacturer. So it is said to be the first example, maybe a Omoda brandit could already roll off the assembly line at the end of this year.

At this point, Italy is left with Dongfeng, which Minister Urso was always unbalanced, but it seems that there are also other names on the ministry’s plate, which have not yet been leaked.