Different brands
The Stellantis factory in Melfi, southern Italy, will receive a new order in the coming years. Five new electric models from different brands of the group will roll off the production line. It is now also known which brands.
Stellantis was partly created from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and therefore plays a very important role in the Italian car industry. To reassure its Italian employees, the group announced earlier this year that Italian production will remain important in the future. We have already been told that eventually the production of four ‘foreign’ models and one Italian model will be housed there. Autonews now reports that it concerns the next Jeep Compass, two DS cars, an Opel and a Lancia. These are all models that are on the new STLA Medium platform.
These five models should roll off the production line at the factory in Melfi, southern Italy, where Stellantis still builds the current Jeep Compass, the Jeep Renegade and the Fiat 500X. It is understood that they will go out of production in 2025 Autonews. However, that does not mean that the first new EVs will not be built there until 2025. No, the whole party starts in 2024 with one of the two DSs. This is an unspecified model, possibly a successor to the DS 7. The second mysterious DS and the next Jeep Compass (which will reportedly also have fuel engines) will follow in 2025. In 2026 it will be the turn of a model from Opel and Lancia. This probably concerns the Opel Manta and almost certainly the Lancia Gamma.
By the way, more Stellantis EVs will soon be coming from the south of Italy. At the beginning of this year, the group announced that it will build cars on the STLA Large platform in Cassino.
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