The automotive group Stellantis announced this Monday that it will produce two vehicles from the Chinese brand Leapmotor at its industrial hub in Goiana (PE).
The models will be the electrified utility vehicles B10 and C10, which use a technology in which the combustion engine works only as a generator to charge the battery that feeds the electric motor responsible for the vehicle’s traction.
Specialized publications cited that local production will take place from 2027, but the company did not confirm the information when questioned by Reuters. Other details, such as the level of nationalization of the vehicles that will be produced in Pernambuco, were not disclosed.
Stellantis calls the propulsion system by the English acronym REEV, and states that the local development of a flex version capable of also working with ethanol in any mixture with gasoline has already begun.
According to Stellantis, the application of flex motorization in REEV technology ‘is a pioneer in the world’.
‘Leapmotor’s local production at our factory in Goiana (PE) is a fundamental piece in the strategy to consolidate and expand the brand’s reach in Brazil and South America’, said the president of Stellantis for South America, Herlander Zola, in a press release.
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Stellantis announced the arrival of the Chinese brand in Brazil last year. The Goiana automotive hub currently produces models from the Jeep and RAM brands.
