Automotive group Stellantis is evaluating its manufacturing plant in Gurun, Kedah for its potential to turn into a regional manufacturing hub for battery-electric automobiles (BEVs) destined for home and export markets within the ASEAN area, it has introduced.

Stellantis took full possession of Naza Automotive Manufacturing (NAM) and its Gurun plant in November 2021, which at the moment produces the Peugeot 2008, 3008 and 5008 SUVs that are bought in Malaysia in addition to exported to the Philippines, Thailand and Cambodia.

In line with its assertion, Stellantis is “aiming to convey the STLA Medium platform to the ASEAN area” which can allow the group to fabricate multi-energy automobiles (combustion, mild-hybrids and BEVs) within the ASEAN area for the ASEAN market, which can lead to native sourcing alternatives for native suppliers and producers of over RM5 billion over the following 4 years, it stated.

Stellantis’ funding within the ASEAN marketplace for electrification “may embody progress resulting from a neighborhood electrification ecosystem, together with the native meeting of battery packs and associated new job alternatives,” and thus open up new alternatives past car manufacturing, it stated.

The STLA Medium is one in every of three unibody BEV platforms on the group’s structure that’s meant for compact automobiles with battery packs of between 87 and 104 kWh in capability for as much as 700 km of vary. Exterior the unibody platforms, there may be the STLA Body for body-on-frame builds for giant pick-up vans and business automobiles.

Past Stellantis’ consideration of the Gurun, Kedah plant as a regional hub for EV manufacture, the automotive group has partnered with the Indonesian authorities and different Indonesian stakeholders as a part of the automaker’s localisation and upstream battery supplies funding plan.

Via an settlement with its Indonesian associate, Indomobil Group, Stellantis will start native meeting of Citroën automobiles in Indonesia from 2024, the automaker group stated in its assertion.

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