Automaker Stellantis planning major expansion of its Mexican operations  

Stellantis has announced plans to grow operations astatine 2 Mexican plants and motorboat locally a caller electrical conveyance (EV) marque successful 2026, striking a opposition with different planetary automakers that person reduced operations successful Mexico. 

Stellantis aims to presumption higher-volume, higher-value-added products successful its Mexican accumulation network. The Saltillo works successful the borderline authorities of Coahuila volition nutrient the Ram 1500, a full-size pickup motortruck that volition vie straight with Chevrolet’s Silverado, which is manufactured successful Silao, Guanajuato.

At its Saltillo plant, Stellantis volition nutrient the Ram 1500, a full-size pickup. (Mediastellantis.com)

In its Toluca installation successful Mexico state, Stellantis volition assemble its Cherokee hybrid and Recon EV, introducing a much divers and technologically precocious accumulation rhythm to the plant. It volition besides proceed to nutrient its Compass and Wagoneer S models. 

“This is lone the opening of what volition hap successful Mexico,” said Daniel González, the Stellantis Mexico CEO. “What matters is what comes next.” 

While Stellantis is reconfirming its committedness to the Mexican market, immoderate different automakers person moved operations, citing uncertainty successful the manufacture owing to the instauration of U.S. tariffs crossed respective industries by the Trump medication successful the United States. 

General Motors has moved portion of its accumulation to the United States, portion Nissan plans to adjacent 2 Mexican plants, successful Cuernavaca and Aguascalientes. Tesla has paused the improvement of a gigafactory successful Mexico. 

 The motorboat of the caller Stellantis models has supported the instauration of 5,000 jobs successful Mexico, according to González. 

“We person 8 plants successful the country, 2 main complexes, 13,000 radical successful the plants and 17,000 successful total,” said González. “This shows a institution that is betting connected Mexico and believes successful Mexico.” 

Stellantis volition besides present the Leapmotor marque to the Mexican marketplace adjacent year, with the motorboat of astatine slightest 13 modelss.

The EV startup Leapmotor was founded successful China successful 2015. In 2024, the steadfast signed an statement with Stellantis for the selling and after-sales work of its cars extracurricular of China, aimed astatine accelerating its planetary expansion. 

The enlargement of Stellantis successful Mexico comes aft the steadfast announced a partial suspension of its Mexico operations successful April owed to concerns implicit the imaginable instauration of car tariffs by the United States. Since then, however, greater marketplace stableness has helped solidify the firm’s presumption successful Mexico. 

 With reports from Expansión and Mexico Business News