The Volkswagen Group selected Sagunt, a Spanish town in Valencia, to install its battery gigafactory, which will also serve as support for the construction of urban electric models in the Catalan town of Martorell and in the Navarran town of Landaben from 2025 and 2026.
The execution of this gigafactory will create 3,500 direct jobs by the end of the decade and will have a capacity of 40 GWh per year. Additionally, the factory will also be able to supply the Ford factory in Almussafes, due to an agreement of “European cooperation between both firms by which they undertook to develop zero-emission and light commercial models.”
The factory will become the third in Europe for the Volkswagen Group and the official announcement will be made shortly before “the company registers, together with Seat, its comprehensive electrification proposal in the Strategic Project for Economic Recovery and Transformation in the Electric Vehicle sector and Connected.“
Sagunt: an industrial estate
This gigafactory will be located in the industrial estate adjacent to the port of Sagunt called Parc Sagunt II and will have some 5.6 million square meters of land.
The space is considered industrial land, due to the “strategic environmental and territorial declaration (DATE) of the special plan for the second phase of this manufacturing area and confirmed by the Department of Ecological Transition of the Generalitat Valenciana” through a published statement last February 17.
The Generalitat stated that as a result of this environmental authorization, the region is considered a “magnificent” position to host large-scale industrial investments.
M. Rodríguez
Source: publico.es
