Alfonso Sancha, vice president of acquisitions at Seat, said this Friday the Volkswagen group is aiming to produce gigafactory batteries for its Sagunt electric car. The largest of the Volkswagen group in Europe. Sancha presented the project to 250 representatives of local companies in the Valencian Community Business Confederation (CEV) and invited them to join the project. The manager assured what they were looking for create a Valencia electric battery bank. The manager of the German giant appealed to emotion, insisting that they wanted to become a “Valencian company” with the participation of suppliers from the Community.
Reminding that the plant will start production in 2026, Sancha emphasized that they were impressed by the determination of Generalitat President Ximo Puig from the first meeting. The manager assured him that the Valencia project has the mandate to be the “best” battery giga factory the group will ever have in Europe, and the “biggest” of the six. Seat vice president, guess Sagunt factory producing battery cells for 800,000 vehicles per year At the factories of Volkswagen, Cupra and Skoda brands in Navarra in Barcelona and Landaben in Martorell. Sancha warned that the gigafactory will be prepared for technological advances in battery production and will not become obsolete. The cells will be manufactured with cobalt and MNC, but the facility will be versatile to accommodate “future emerging chemical technologies.”
Seat’s manager assured that Valencia companies seek cooperation because they aspire to be an “integrative part” of the Community and “not just someone going through it”. “We are here to stay,” he said.
The Generalitat president, for his part, highlighted Consell’s “obsession” with the transformation of the productive fabric, stressing that Volkswagen’s arrival was the definitive “landmark”. Puig, the project A ‘big opportunity’ similar to Ford’s landing 50 years agoWhile announcing the tender for the construction of the Parc Sagunt II urbanization project, where the factory will be located, with a cost of 2.6 million Euros.
On the other hand, CEV president Salvador Navarro stressed that the battery factory is “abominable that the Valencian productive fabric needs” to transform itself and reduce its distance from its competitors.
The battery gigafactory project for the electric car requires an investment of 3,500 million euros.