Stellantis is on a hiring spree in Malaysia, particularly for its manufacturing plant in Gurun, Kedah the place a variety of the automotive group’s autos are assembled. 9 roles have been marketed on LinkedIn by the agency’s expertise acquisition personnel, and one function particularly, particularly that of the battery meeting line launch engineer, might level to a specific mannequin set for the Malaysian market.

We have already got affirmation from Stellantis itself {that a} slew of merchandise is due for arrival as CKD (domestically assembled) fashions on the Malaysian market this yr, a variety that shall be comprised of the 408, e-2008 and Landtrek.

The aforementioned battery meeting line, due to this fact, needs to be for the EV on this trio, which is the e-2008, which is provided with a lithium-ion battery of fifty kWh gross capability (46.2 kWh nett) to yield a WLTP-rated vary of 320 km.

This feeds a front-mounted electrical motor that outputs 136 PS and 260 Nm, and it may obtain charging of as much as 11 kW AC, which is able to convey a full cost in 4.5 hours, or as much as 100 kW DC the place a 0-80% state of cost is reached in half-hour.

Final November, Stellantis introduced that it has been evaluating the manufacturing plant in Gurun, Kedah for its potential as a regional manufacturing hub for its battery-electric autos that shall be produced for home and export markets within the ASEAN area.

Stellantis stated on the time that it’s “aiming to convey the STLA Medium platform to the ASEAN area” which is able to allow the group to fabricate multi-energy autos – combustion, mild-hybrids and BEVs – within the ASEAN area for the ASEAN market.

This plant got here below full Stellantis possession in November 2021, and has been producing the Peugeot 2008, 3008 and 5008 as of late final yr.

GALLERY: Peugeot e-2008 previewed in Malaysia

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