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...The new EV models — Vauxhall/Opel Vivaro Electric, Peugeot E-Expert, Citroën ë-Dispatch and Fiat Professional E-Scudo — are expected to account for about a tenth of the site’s output initially....
...Peugeot was bailed out in 2014, while Opel was sold by General Motors after decades of accumulated losses. This suffuses the business with a survivalist mentality and a sense of urgency....
...Stellantis is one of the biggest EV sellers in Europe through its Peugeot, Fiat, Opel and Citroën brands, and is embarking on an EV “offensive” in the US from this year....
...The demands by the vehicle maker, which also owns Citroën, Fiat, Peugeot and Opel, come as it holds talks with ministers over financial support to convert the plant in Bedfordshire....
...A year later it sold its lossmaking Opel and Vauxhall brands to PSA, which is now owned by Chrysler owner Stellantis, for €2.2bn, following almost two decades in which it failed to turn a profit in Europe...
...It will also boost the production and assembly of electric quadricycles for the Citroën and Opel brands. Morocco is now angling for an electric battery plant....
...Other “anomalies” perplex Kurkov’s people: one aristocratic Pole in the bouncing Opel passes not normal stones but pearls, which Taras chivalrously gifts to Darka....
...Despite the question marks, carmakers such as Stellantis, which is behind the Peugeot, Opel and Jeep brands, are banking on Vulcan’s success....
...The company, stitched together by combining Opel, Peugeot and Fiat Chrysler, has a large network of plants across Europe, and currently makes the same electric vans as Ellesmere Port in Spain and Portugal...
...Opel-maker Stellantis last year became the first carmaker to invest in a lithium miner when it paid €50mn in return for equity in Vulcan....
...latest company to halt operations in Russia as the car and truck manufacturer suspended work at a manufacturing plant south of Moscow where it builds vans and people carriers under brands including Fiat and Opel...
...This included imports and exports of vans and people carriers built at the Russian Kaluga plant for brands such as Fiat and Opel. Some of that production shifted to factories in Britain and France....
...Mercedes hived off its Smart brand to a joint venture with China’s Geely in 2019, while Stellantis brand Opel dropped its Karl and Adam minicars before the pandemic....
...Fiddian-Green made another similarly sized equine piece for garden designer Mat Reese, commissioned by the von Opel family for their Malverleys estate....
...He will be replaced by Michael Lohscheller, the former chief of Stellantis brand Opel, who joined Nikola in February as president....
...Tavares dismissed any major fallout on its business from Russia’s move to order troops into Ukraine, although Stellantis has a factory producing vans for export under brands such as Peugeot and Opel in Kaluga...
...Each of the Chinese groups’ sales are smaller than non-Chinese rivals such as Renault, VW or Hyundai, but ahead of Ford, Mazda and the Stellantis brands that include Peugeot and Opel....
...Engineers and other staff were snapped up from such carmakers as Porsche, Audi, Ferrari, McLaren, Aston Martin, Mercedes and Opel, as well as suppliers such as Continental, Hella, Faurecia and Bosch....
...Thuy replaced Michael Lohscheller, a former head of German carmaker Opel, as global chief executive last month. The company said Loscheller stepped down for personal reasons....
...he said, referring to Opel’s production lines....
...Lohscheller, who was previously chief executive of Germany’s Opel and worked in the US for Volkswagen, said VinFast would open 60 stores in California and bypass third-party dealers — a sales channel also...
...Opel will also launch as an all-electric brand in China, a market where Stellantis is weak....
...It lists BMW, Opel and Austrian Airlines among customers, and claims 14 cars equipped with its products are sold every minute worldwide. But the Hidden Champions are not limited to big cities....
...Stellantis, whose Peugeot, Citroën, Opel and Fiat brands compete with VW in Europe, has also been hit by the chip shortages....
...They point to outgoing German chancellor Angela Merkel blocking Fiat from buying Opel in 2009 and French president Emmanuel Macron delaying Fincantieri’s acquisition of STX in 2017....
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