VISITING T H E F U T U R E READ MORE READ MORE HIS MAJESTY KING FELIPE VI VISITED THE WORKS OF THE NEW BATTERY ASSEMBLY PLANT, IN WHICH WE ARE INVESTING 300 MILLION EUROS AND WHICH WILL IMPACT ON MORE THAN 500 JOBS The Volkswagen Group and SEAT S.A. are moving forward with their transformation project to put Spain on electric wheels.We showcased our progress in constructing a battery system assembly plant, currently under development, at an event attended by His Majesty King Felipe VI; former President of the Generalitat de Catalunya,Pere Aragonès; and Spain’s Minister of Industry and Tourism, Jordi Hereu, among other dignitaries. Our investment in this new plant is 300 million euros, and it is where the assembly process of battery cells for the Volkswagen Group’s family of urban electric vehicles, produced at the PowerCogigafactory in Sagunto, will be carried out. Our future Workshop 20 is central to SEAT S.A.’s path towards electrification and will impact on more than 500 jobs when it becomes operational in 2025. These new facilities will have an initial capacity to produce 1,400 battery systems per day and will be equipped with 11,000 solar panels producing 70% of the energy required in the process. The plant is part of the transformation plan of the Volkswagen Group and SEAT S.A. in Spain, which the two firms are developing to make Spain a hub for electric vehicles in Europe together with partners from the Future: Fast Forward project. AN IMPULSE FOR MARTORELL The transformation that SEAT S.A. has embarked on will also directly impact the company at the industrial, organisational and cultural levels. A recipient of NextGenerationEU funds from the second call of the PERTE for Electric and Connected Vehicles, the battery system assembly plant is therefore a cornerstone in the Martorell plant’s transition towards electrification. With an investment of 3 billion euros, double the amount the company earmarked more than 30 years ago to build the Martorell factory, SEAT S.A. is driving the biggest transformation in its history. This summer, the company will move the entire production of its Ibiza and Arona models to another assembly line at the plant to set up a new line for the manufacture of electric cars at the factory. SEAT S.A. is at the forefront of the Volkswagen Group’s urban electric vehicle family cluster. Its aim is to put electric cars within everyone’s reach, and it will produce the CUPRA Raval, our brand’s all-electric urban car, from the end of 2025. In the coming months, the Volkswagen ID 2.all modelswill also be produced at the Martorell plant, in addition to an SUV based on the ID.2all and the Škoda Epiq, at the Volkswagen plant in Navarra. Some 1,100 people in total are working on the development and industrialisation of the Volkswagen Group’s electric city cars. —