Rome, 9 June 2024 – From Brazil to Serbia, from Argentina to Slovakia, from Spain to Mexico and from Morocco toIndia. Passing, among others, through the United KingdomFrance, Germany, the United States, the PortugalCanada and the Türkiye. Paradoxically, we would be the first to list the countries in the world in which Stellantis does not produce any vehicles.
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But the question, also in light of the reassurances of the automotive giant chaired by John Elkann and led by CEO Carlo Tavares on the importance of the Turin plant Mirafiori for the launch at the end of 2025 of the wait Fiat 500 hybridthere is only one: how much and where does the maxi group with 189.5 billion in revenues and 242 thousand employees still produce in Italy?
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The answer, relying on the numbers of the first quarterly of 2024, is complex, since it calls into question both the Cassino, Melfi, Modena, Pomigliano d’Arco-Acerra, Turin and Val di Sangro-Atessa (vehicle side) as those of Cento, Mirafiori, Prato la Serra, Termoli, Verrone and Rivalta di Torino (components side). Focusing on the first front, the most striking fact is that the production in Italy of Stellantis overall there is a sharp decline, given the 170,415 vehicles left the lines between January and March 2024 (-9.8% compared to 188,910 in the first three months of 2023). While, speaking of the individual production hubs, they travel at full speed Pomigliano (+26%) it’s attessa (+11.8%) and they collapse there Maserati of Modena (-68.2%)the historian Mirafiori (-51%), Melfi (-50.7%) and well Cassino (-40.7%). And this, clearly, only pushes away the objective of one million vehicles per year leaving national borders that the board of directors Stellantis had advertised at the end of 2023, considering that the projection to 31 December 2024 is just 630 thousand unitsagainst the 751 thousand of the closing figure for 2023. Furthermore, in the first quarter of the current year the production of Stellantis cars alone had marked a -23.8% overall (-105,255 units), against a 28.5% growth in commercial vehicles (+14,460 over the first three months of 2023).
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Shifting the focus back to the individual factories, however, in Turin hub volumes amounted to 12,680 units, compared to 25,900 in 2023 (-51%), while Cassino the first of 2024 was the worst quarterly ever, with -40.7% year on year which nails the vehicles produced in the province of Frosinone to 8,540. In Lucania MelfiThen, of the 25,100 cars produced, 51% are made up of 500xs, 26% are Jeeps Renegade and 23% from Jeep Compasswith -50.7% in volume (-62% on the pre-Covid figure) which translates into 25,770 units less than in the first quarter of 2023.
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Alone Pomigliano, in the first three months of 2024, on the contrary experienced strong growth (+26% compared to the first quarter of 2023), managing to prevent the hole from turning into an abyss. The growth in volumes, here, compared to 2023 was guaranteed by the 44,000 Panda units (+45% compared to 30,300 twelve months earlier), capable of offsetting the decline in Alfa Romeo Tonale and Dodge Hornet SUVswhich went from 16,400 units in 2023 to 14,830 (-9.5%) at the beginning of 2024.
