The PSA Peugeot Citroën bet the electric car is strong and their intention to produce its first vehicle in Europe Vigo

The PSA Peugeot Citroën bet the electric car is strong and their intention to produce its first vehicle in Europe Vigo 100% unit (the C-Zero and Ion are manufactured in Japan) Galician plant situated in a privileged position within of the group's strategy to dominate the market of the electric motor.

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To guide its goal, PSA Peugeot Citroën has joined the alliance EV20 (Electric Vehicle 20), a small international business lobby and government formed to lead the development of electric vehicles in the world, and that at the meeting last Friday , has set 2020 as the key to transforming the automotive market, starting with fleets of vehicles, financing mechanisms and public policies that support sustainable transport mode.

Business elite

The power group is formed by governments of countries and regions and companies leading the race to introduce electric vehicles. Among the members of EV20 are Philippe Varin, chief executive of PSA Peugeot Citroën, the French Industry Minister Christian Estrosi, Minister of Sustainable Development and Environment of Quebec, Pierre Arcand, the Commissioner of Environmental Conservation New York State, Pete Grannis, the president of the Paris region, Ile de France, Jean-Paul Huchon, Shai Agassi, founder of the Israeli company Better Place (pioneer in research on batteries for electric cars)

Rounding out the roster, Hideaki Watanabe, head of Renault-Nissan alliance in the development of electric models, and leaders of organizations such as Arup, Ener1, Johnson Controls, TNT, Venturi Automobiles, Amsterdam, London, North Rhine-Westphalia, Queensland and Australia South.

This new global partnership, chaired by Prince Albert II of Monaco (in the context of The Climate Group) has established itself as an immediate priority has been circulating to get 1 million more electric vehicles on the road in the next five years.

Consider that this is a realistic goal, and scored the next 5 years as a turning point for the development of both industry and supply networks.

In this period should be longer circulating electric vehicle PSA intends to assign to the factory shortly Galicia. The president of PSA's reflections Philippe Varin project recently moved into the French Prime Minister François Fillon.

The vehicle, for which the company has already made a request for aid to the Xunta and the central government. The vehicle would join in the assembly of the Berlingo and Partner vans, initially at a rate of about 2,000 units a year, and commercial launch is set well into 2012. According to the Gallic group pattern, the new project will be continued co-produced with Mitsubishi models at a factory in Japan, which will be released before the end of the year under the two brands (Peugeot and Citroën C-Ion Zero).