Renault launches e-mobility industry cluster in France
Renault Group is creating an independent umbrella company called Renault ElectriCity for electric car production at its Douai, Maubeuge and Ruitz plants in northern France. Renault ElectriCity will be measured against a target of 400,000 vehicles per year from 2025.
The new umbrella company is to become “the largest and most competitive production centre for electric vehicles in Europe”, according to the French carmaker. The plan is to create 700 permanent new jobs by 2025, including 350 in Maubeuge and 350 in Douai and Ruitz. Currently, a total of almost 5,000 people are employed in Douai, Maubeuge and Ruitz.
In concrete terms, Renault’s plans for the three plants are as follows: The Douai plant will produce its first electric car, the all-electric Mégane based on the CMF EV platform of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance, starting this year. Initial road tests of the electric car have recently begun. On the same pl
Renault ElectriCity: Europe’s biggest electric car production centre is born
Renault has reorganised its French factories in preparation for the new Megane E-Tech Electric, as well as the upcoming Renault 4 and 5
9 Jun 2021
Renault has reorganised its French factories to lay the groundwork for what will become the largest electric vehicle production centre in Europe. The first model born from the initiative will be the new Megane E-Tech Electric, which will roll off production lines later this year.
The company has reorganised its facilities at Douai, Maubeuge and Ruitz into the “Renault ElectriCity,” which aims to produce 400,000 electric cars per year by 2025, creating an extra 700 jobs in the process. The move also has the backing of the French trade unions.
French unions agree Electricity deal with Renault
By Graeme Roberts 09 Jun 2021 (Last Updated June 9th, 2021 17:24)
Unions have signed on to support Renault s Electricity EV initiative in France.
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Renault claims Electricity will be Europe’s largest EV making centre
As part of the so-called Renaulution strategic plan, Renault Group and its representative trade unions (CFDT, CFE-CGC, CFTC, CGT, FO and SUD) have signed an agreement for the future of the sites in the Hauts-de-France region.
The agreement is to create Renault ElectriCity: the legal entity wholly owned by Renault SAS which will group together the industrial sites of Douai, Maubeuge and Ruitz, employing nearly 5,000 people.
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Decision to build Renault 5 EV in France boosts French workers
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The Renault 5 concept is part of the brand s plans to launch 14 core vehicles, including seven full-electric cars by 2025.
PARIS The coming Renault 5 small full-electric car will be built at the automaker’s factory in Douai, northern France, as Renault seeks to maintain production levels at a cluster of factories in the economically depressed region.
It represents something of a homecoming for the 5, as the original model was built at Douai from 1972 to 1984. The decision to build the EV in Douai is a boost for workers at the factory, which once built nearly 500,000 vehicles a year but in 2019 produced fewer than 100,000.