Automobile assembly line in a Renault factory in Douai.
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M. LIBERT / 20 MINUTES
This is good news for all the employees of the Georges Besse plant at Renault Douai.
The future electric R5 of the diamond brand will be well produced in the North.
Jean-Dominique Senard, president of Renault, confirmed the news Monday evening on the antenna of BFM Business.
“It's a commitment, that's where we're going to make it, in Douai.
Among the few major projects we have for France, we intend to develop this North Pole with the Maubeuge-Douai plant.
These factories, it is a question of making them fully used, they must be filled like eggs, ”announced the big boss.
The most important European pole of electric vehicles
More broadly, the North should be one of the main bases of Renault's electric revolution.
“We intend to produce around 400,000 electric vehicles in France and to make the North region the most important European pole of electric vehicles.
It is possible, there are a few conditions for that: having a battery factory nearby, and that it can develop enough batteries to supply these new productions at a reasonable cost, ”continued the Renault boss.
What to give a little hope in a difficult economic context for the automobile with a drop in car sales of 23.7% in Europe in 2020.
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