Volkswagen announces that it wants to manufacture electric vehicles at its Pamplona plant

The German Automobile Group Volkswagen has confirmed that it wants to manufacture from 2025 in its Pamplona / Iruña plant an electric SUV.

The Volkswagen group, which this Thursday presented its investment plan for the next five years, has reported that in the Iberian Peninsula it plans to “produce compact electric vehicles at the Martorell factory from 2025 and at the factory in Pamplona electric de the SUV class. “

However, he added that “The final decision will depend on the general conditions and public aid”.

Volkswagen is going to invest in the next five years 159,000 million euros (150,000 million in the 2020 investment plan), of which 89,000 million euros in electrification and 56,000 million in the digitization of its factories.

For his part, the president of the works council of Volkswagen Navarra, Alfredo Morales (UGT), has affirmed that the statement of the multinational in relation to the arrival of the electric car to Landaben represents “very good news for Navarra as a whole”.

The President of the Government of Navarra, Maria Chivite, has also shown its “enormous satisfaction” with the announcement of the Volkswagen group, since “it ensures the future of the Volkswagen Navarra plant and the future of thousands of jobs.”

“The good news for the automotive sector in Navarra is confirmed, which, on the other hand, we have been transferring for months. And we have always done it, betting as a Government to work hard and discreetly, to be able to advance in the stages and arrive to the goal “, he declared in a note sent by the Provincial Government.