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Renault has
announced the production sites
for two of its forthcoming
four-vehicle Z.E. (Zero
Emission) range, starting in
2011. The Twizy Z.E.
Concept-based city car will be
manufactured at its Valladolid
plant in Spain, with an electric
supermini to be produced at the
Flins plant near Paris.
The Valladolid
plant, 150 kilometres north west
of Madrid, already produces
Modus exclusively alongside some
Clio versions, and has been
chosen due to its expertise in
producing compact cars. Its
sister plant in Flins, France,
has been selected on the same
basis for producing B-segment
cars, namely Clio and Clio
Campus.
Both decisions
were also founded upon Renault’s
objective of producing vehicles
as close as possible to the
markets in which they will be
sold, namely Europe, in order to
optimise logistical flows.
The Flins site
will thus become a central hub
in Renault's EV activity,
producing the company's
core-range electric model as
well as manufacturing and
recycling EV batteries. Flins
will begin EV production in
2012. This urban, versatile
model is expected to account for
two-thirds of the Group’s EV
sales in Europe.
France will be at
the centre of Renault's
zero-emission strategy:
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Future EV
development is currently
taking place at the
Technocentre in Guyancourt
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A letter of
intent has today been signed
with Nissan, the Atomic
Energy Commission (CEA) and
France’s Strategic
Investment Fund (FSI) to set
up a French joint venture
focused on EV battery
advanced research,
industrialisation and
recycling
Fully aware of
the issues involved in providing
sustainable mobility, Renault
has decided to mass-market a
complete range of affordable
zero-emission electric vehicles
starting in 2011. |
