In the automobile sector it is said that there has already been a belonging of the electric and connected vehicle (belonging to Volkswagen and another for Stellantis. It remains to be seen if the fourth edition of the program, whose bases have already been presented in the Official state Gazette (BOE), will be the Renault, the third largest car manufacturer in Spain. The French company, like Ebro motor racing and Batteries Producers INBAT and Basquevolt, were waiting for the neighborhood belonging, which will distribute 1,250 million for industrial batteries projects and electric vehicle value chain, mostly in loans (about 1,000 million) and the rest in subsidies. The line with the first 280 million, which will be allocated to the battery projects, will be launched next month, as announced on Friday the Minister of Industry and Tourism, Jordi Hereu.
In the case of Renault, the company was already graceful in previous editions of Los Perte neighbor: it received 62 million to make an electric SUV of segment C in Palencia; Another 27.7 million for the battery assembly in Valladolid and about 31.5 million of the neighborhood belongs for the implementation of an ultra -Flexible platform of electric vehicles in the factory of the Valladolid capital. The Gala company gave up these last two games for Valladolid for a matter of deadlines, although it continues to wait for the resolution of belonging to the neighbor III, section B, that is, the one destined for an industrial value chain. “Renault is always open to new calls,” they indicate from the company to this newspaper in relation to the neighborhood.
Renault’s goal is to produce a million electric vehicles per year in 2030, something for which France will have to leave, its electric production center, which has the capacity to make some 600,000 units a year. Although the car has never officially confirmed that it will produce electricity in Spain, its CEO, Luca de Meo, has on several occasions that Valladolid and Palencia are susceptible to being the following to be electrified.
Meanwhile, both factories breathe calm with their five hybrid models, assigned in the previous Renault Industrial Plan of the 2021-2024 period, for which the signing of a collective agreement was indispensable in February 2021, which Renault extended to end on December 31 of this year. The manufacturer could repeat the strategy that followed then and not announce a new industrial plan, in this case with the electric vehicle as the protagonist, until another agreement is signed.
Another usual one from the neighborhood, Basquevolt, will also be presented to the new edition of the program. This Basque project is focused on developing and then producing a solid state battery on an industrial scale that is capable of lowering the price of electric cars to the level of combustion. The Basquevolt Plan is then selling those batteries to companies that produce vehicles in Europe and thus face China’s domain in the field of batteries for electric vehicles. Its technology is based on a solid state electrolyte made of polymers, a cheap and easy element to achieve.
Another interested in the new edition of the Industrial Aid Program is Inobat, a Slovaca company that plans to lift a battery plant in Valladolid, which has not received funds from the belongings of neighborhood. The company, which continues to wait for the latest resolutions of the PERT VEC III, will be presented to the next edition to finance a gigafactoría that will produce not only for the car, but also for other sectors such as aviation, according to the president of INBAT, Andy Palmer, in an interview in December 2023 with Fifodies. In the beginning, the factory production capacity will be 8 GWh per year, although the goal is to reach 32 GWh.
For its part, Ebro, an extinct Spanish brand in 1987, which Ev Motors revived last year by the hand of its Chinese partner Chery, also plans to appear to the new edition of the belong neighbor. The car presented this week at the Barcelona Motor Show the new Ebro S400, a hybrid urban SUV, which adds to the Ebro S700 and S800 that were already in the market.
