The Volkswagen and Seat battery factory will be in Sagunto

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"The battery factory that we will have in Spain will be in Sagunto (Valencia)

".

"More than 100 criteria have been taken into account and it will have

, according to Thomas Schmall, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Seat.

Although one of these criteria was that the Valencian Community has a very important port "for connections", in addition to "which makes it easier for us to start building the plant at the end of this year and have the plant operational in 2026".

Wayne Griffiths, CEO of Seat, explained that "the investment of more than 7,000 million euros is one of the most important in the Spanish automotive industry".

The investment in the Spanish battery plant will be around 2,500 million euros and it will be one of the six gigafactories

that the Volkswagen Group will have in Europe.

Sagunto will supply the half million units of electric vehicles it plans to manufacture at Seat Martorell from 2025. These models will be from three brands,

,

and

, and will be urban vehicles.

For its part, Volkswagen Navarra will produce two pure electric models within the SUV segment.

2021 results

As for the financial results of 2021, Seat lost 256 million euros according to Spanish accounting, due to the 233 million losses recorded in Germany by the parent company, the Volkswagen group.

According to the Spanish accounts of Seat SA, the net losses rise compared to 2020, going from 194.2 million euros to 256.2 million.

The

grew to 9,256 million from the 8,784 million obtained in 2020, with the gross operating result being 370 million, which represents a reduction in operating losses given that in 2020 they rose to 417 million.

The result before taxes also grew in 2021 compared to 2020, going from 324 million to 370 million euros.

According to Seat, one of the problems in increasing losses is that in 2020, Seat SA received 98 million from VW Navarra in profits, for no euro of benefit in 2021. Hence, the accounts of the Spanish subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group have increased their losses. .

However, despite this negative result, there is

compared to the previous year.

The average per unit sold amounted to 16,850 euros.

Seat sold 474,401 cars in 2021, 1.3% more than in 2020

, "without being able to produce all the cars we would have wanted due to the semiconductor crisis".

compared to the previous year.

Perfect storm

Wayne Griffiths said that "in the last three years we have had a perfect storm thanks to Covid, semiconductors and Russia's invasion of Ukraine."

"

said the CEO of Seat and Cupra, who said that in the company "we are doing everything possible to raise the numbers of Cupra".

In Spanish, Griffiths addressed the employees:

. Transformation is the only way."

The transformation towards electrification creates

And he insisted that the two keys to the company in the present and future are "the electrification of the company and the growth of Cupra".

"There is no plan B and we have to go out and win."

"With the Future Fast Forward (F3) project we have a unique opportunity to transform the company and the Spanish automotive industry."

And he insisted again that

, thanking "the support of the Government and the different Autonomous Communities".

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