Stellantis is planning to overhaul its iconic factory in Turin, Italy into an electric vehicle hub.
It is understood that the conglomerate will assign production of a new electrified platform to the Mirafiori site that is scheduled to build the next Maserati Ghibli and Quattroporte models between 2022 and 2024. The electric Fiat 500 is already being produced at the site, as is the Maserati Levante.
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Stellantis is shifting Ghibli and Quattroporte production from its nearby site in Grugliasco to Mirafiori. All 1,100 workers from the Grugliasco site will move to Mirafiori by 2024 with no overall impact on jobs in the local area, Auto News reports. The shift to the Turin facility marks the end of full car manufacturing at the Grugliasco plant less than a decade after it began to handle the production of Maserati models.
Sources state that Stellantis plans to allocate more electrification-related activities to the Mirafiori site, The Detroit News adds.
Stellantis has been looking to tweak its Italian production in recent months. In February, chief executive Carlos Tavares revealed to Italian unions that production costs at Fiat’s factories were up to four times higher than they are at PSA’s plants throughout France and Spain for similar models, all because of lower-than-expected sales.
The automaker has also reorganized output at its Melfi plant in southern Italy into a single enhanced production line that merges two existing ones. Stellantis has also committed to building one of three planned European battery plants in Italy at a site 300 km east of Rome.
