The CEO of Seat and Cupra, Wayne Griffiths, has been confident this Tuesday that the Government will launch the second Part of the electric car before the general elections, called by surprise last Monday, and has linked the aid of this new plan to the installation in Martorell of a battery assembly center for the cells that will supply the Sagunt gigafactory, in Valencia.
“It is very important for us because we have to make important investment decisions in our factory in Martorell for the assembly of batteries”, a plant that “will be like a new factory within the factory”. “And these investments depend on aid from Perte”, she has warned.
It is not an investment as significant as that of Sagunt (3,000 million) nor as the one already planned in Martorell to manufacture its first electric vehicle (another 3,000 million), but it is relevant to integrate the maximum possible activity within the company related to electrification and ensure employment within the framework of this technological transformation. It could be several hundred euros.
Griffiths has made these statements after participating in a round table at the annual meeting of the Cercle d’Economia, marked by the electoral advance. “My information is that it does not affect (the Perte). The preparation was well advanced and I hope it comes out before the elections,” she said.
However, Griffiths, who also chairs the Anfac automobile association, has expressed his concern about the “uncertainty” that the electoral movement supposes in a country in which electrification is considerably behind Europe. For this reason, he expressed his wish that the future government can be established as soon as possible.
In the same round table, moderated by Maite Barrera, president of Barcelona Global and member of the Cercle board, the CEOs of Merck, Belén Garijo, and Johnson’s CEO participated
The Merck board has lamented that Europe is in the middle of “the two powerful” and that no process of “strengthening the EU in such a worrying context” is in sight. The situation, he stressed, “is worrying even if China does not invade Taiwan.”
For the director the CEO of Johnson
Regarding the impact of artificial intelligence, Duato has opined that medical research will advance more in the next 10 years than in the last hundred, which will allow “diseases such as cancer to become chronic and even curable .”
Wayne Griffiths also called for “European leadership” to be able to respond to China and the United States on the geopolitical and commercial board. After recalling that Cupra is going to manufacture its Tavascan model in China, he lamented that the Inflation Reduction Act approved by the US government to boost its industry “makes Europe weaker because it does not have the same tools”
