The Chinese automobile group Chery will launch produce cars in the Barcelona free zone in the third quarter this year with 150 workers, after the agreement concluded with the company Ebro-EV Motors for the landing of the Asian giant in the former Nissan facilities.
This was explained by the CEO of Ebro-EV Motors, Pedro Calaf, in statements to TV3 and Catalunya Ràdio in Madrid, where the leaders of Chery and Ebro-EV Motors visited the Ministry of ‘Industry for explain the project to Minister Jordi Hereu, meeting which was also attended by the Minister of Commerce, Roger Torrent.
Sources from Ebro-EV Motors told EFE that the production – initially Chery cars will be assembled – It will start with 150 workers, part of the 600 former employees of Nissan who are currently undergoing training, and the number of employees involved would increase as the different phases of the project are executed.
The Minister of Commerce, Roger Torrent, in statements to TV3, assured that the first Chery car assembled in the free trade zone It will be released in the fall and will come from the company’s premium brand, Omoda.. According to Torrent, later vehicles will be made
the Ebro brand, both thanks to the licenses they have for old Nissan models and for Chery cars under the Ebro brand.
Torrent detailed that there is a timeline that The assembly of the cars will begin in 2024 and later the dates will be specified until reaching full production. “A gradual process that companies will explain,” Torrent added. For Torrent, the agreement reached yesterday between Chery and Ebro-EV Motors helps Catalonia continue to be a “power” at European level in terms of automobile manufacturing and the reindustrialization of Catalonia. “The important thing is that cars are made in the factory again,” said Torrent, who thanked unions and workers for the responsibility they have assumed.