greater than 500 hires to come back on the Sandouville manufacturing facility, which is able to produce the brand new technology of electrical utility autos | EUROtoday

The normal director of Renault, Luca de Meo, touring to Sandouville, Seine-Maritime, with the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, and the mayor of Le Havre, Edouard Philippe, introduced on Friday March 29 the manufacturing right here 2026 of a brand new 100% electrical utility automobile.

These new technology vans will provide the Flexis three way partnership, created on March 22 by Renault, Volvo and the shipowner CMA CGM for final mile supply, with 550 hires in 4 years for the Sandouville web site, indicated Mr. Meo, citing an funding of 330 million euros.

The new automobile, referred to as FlexEvan, “is something quite revolutionary in a sector where there has not been a big big bang for several decades”mentioned Mr. de Meo. “E-commerce is exploding and this makes the need to reduce the environmental impact of these vehicles in the city even more essential”underlined the overall director of the French automotive producer.

One in six utility autos bought in Europe is manufactured by Renault, he recalled and 85% of them are manufactured in France, on three websites together with Sandouville, the place the Renault Trafic is assembled.

Facilitate the institution of industries in France.

The Sandouville manufacturing facility has 1,850 workers and 600 momentary staff, and assembles 600 autos per day. The General Confederation of Labor denounces the discount within the variety of workers on the positioning which had 2,000 folks in 2014, based on the union. Bruno Le Maire highlighted the position of “the reduction in production taxes” which, based on him, made it potential to relaunch industrial tasks in France. “We will continue to lower production taxes in France”he insisted.

The minister additionally referred to as for the creation of “new industrial sectors” within the fields of batteries but additionally synthetic intelligence, warmth pumps and photovoltaics. The batteries for the FlexEvan will even be equipped by Verkor and its Dunkirk manufacturing facility, which has a partnership with Renault.

Like Edouard Philippe, he warned of the necessity to discover land to facilitate the institution of industries in France. “We must question the implementation of ZAN”, or zero web artificialization, which consists of limiting the extension of land artificialization, argued Mr. Le Maire. The minister additionally introduced the event of 1,500 hectares on the ports of Le Havre, Dunkirk and Marseille to encourage the institution of factories. “It’s good for the environment to produce in France”he mentioned.