TORINO – A new full electric platform for Mirafiori. The Stellantis group, through the mouth of the deputy chief operating officer of the Enlarged Europe market Davide Mele, has announced that the fully electric line of the Trident House, renamed Thunderbolt. And it will be Maserati’s line of zero-emission models. First model? The new Quattroporte between 2022 and 2024. In 2025 each model of the Trident will have a 100% electric Bev variant. The announcement to table at Mise where, between the company and the trade unions, the Ministers for Economic Development are present Giancarlo Giorgetti is at work Andrea Orlando, in addition to the deputy of the Mise Giancarlo Pichetto Fratin, the future of Stellantis is being discussed, which has among its shareholders Exor which it controls Republic.
The company, as anticipated by Republic, confirmed the stop to production at the Grugliasco site, the first belt of Turin, and the move of the Ghibli and Quattroporte lines to Mirafiori, where the Levante SUV is built. The bodywork department will continue to do the bodywork until 2024 in the former Bertone plant purchased by FCA in 2009. The relocation of the painting and lines will take place starting next month. The objective of the group – according to what the ministry filters – is to maximize synergies and take the best of the two assets of the sites to incorporate them into a single better production model. This is to achieve a more efficient process. From a resource point of view, more resources for better production efficiency 500bev. Anticipating and speeding up the processes of new technologies and hosting new products. The group assures that the Turin district has been entrusted with a strategic role. Mele confirmed next year’s launch plan, which for Mirafiori also includes the production of the Gran Cabrio and Gran Turismo in Mirafiori, and investments.
The Turin site will be a “strategic center of competence and development. It will be the home of the 500 and will be the home of the new full electric platform”. The company has confirmed that it has already spent 2 billion of the 5 foreseen by the plan. Mirafiori will be transformed into the home of the 500. The small endothermic Fiat company will go out in Poland, at the Tychy plant. The future will be electric only with a growth in numbers from 10% to 70% in the period from 2025-2030 and only in Mirafiori.
The company talks about the birth of the “Stellantis Turin manufacturing district which will allow the adoption of a single modern production process for different Maserati models, able to integrate different platforms, models and propulsion systems (from endothermic to electric, passing through the ‘hybrid) with which to promote the evolution of the brand’s line of cars in the near future by assigning a key role to electrification, infotainment and autonomous driving “, he underlines in a note. And he adds: “Among the first
actions, a new electrified platform dedicated to Maserati will be created which will make it possible to build the new Maserati GranTurismo and GranCabrio and, above all, the new Maserati Quattroporte in a period between 2022 and 2024. The progressive transfer of people from the site to Turin Grugliasco, which will in any case remain operational with various support activities for the current production of Ghibli and Quattroporte – which will be added to Levante – will not have any kind of impact on the overall employment levels in the area “.
The workers’ representatives in Grugliasco, at the news of the confirmation of the stop of production and the transfer, announced an assembly at the gates for Wednesday 13 to evaluate the announcement of the company and decide what to do.
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