Test Production of New Electric Car in Stellantis Factory in Kragujevac Soon

The test production of the electric car at the Stellantis factory in Kragujevac is to begin in the coming weeks, so a “masked” model will ride down the streets of Kragujevac and throughout Sumadija soon. The Beta news agency has learned this from a well-informed source, who explains that hiding the look of a new model and a test ride with a mask are well-established practices ahead of the official presentation to the public, which is expected to take place in the summer, most probably.

People of Kragujevac remember that the Fiat 500L car, ahead of the promotion, was first driven “masked”, as part of the test ride, so that nothing could be seen except for the size of the car.

According to the source, the serial production of the electrical car in its full capacity, in two shifts, should start in October.

According to unofficial findings, the electric car which will be produced in Kragujevac bears no resemblance to Panda. It is larger and reminds of an urban SUV. The difference will also be apparent in the form of the electric engine which will be built into the new model.

At the Autonomous Trade Union of the Stellantis factory in Kragujevac, they say that the employees, of whom there are around 500, have been joined by over 100 workers who were on temporary employment at Stellantis’s car factories in Slovakia and Poland.

The president of the factory trade union, Sasa Djordjevic, told Beta that the first group of workers from Slovakia had returned to Kragujevac at the end of December and the final one at the end of February and that they had all become integrated into the factory’s operations immediately upon their return.

He said that Stellantis had invited those workers to return to Kragujevac six month before the expiration of the two-year deadline which had been planned for the employment abroad.

– They returned to our factory earlier, after a year and a half of working abroad, due to the needs of the production in Kragujevac, which is also a good sign of everything regarding the beginning of the production of the new car going as planned – said Djordjevic.

He explained that, while working abroad, those workers had “frozen” their employment status at the Kragujevac factory, that is, that they had had agreements on non-paid leaves for the duration of two years. According to the contract, ahead of their leaving, they were paid a bonus of EUR 11,000, and upon their return, they were paid EUR 6,000, except that this amount is reduced, considering that the workers spent less than two years abroad.

Djordjevic said that new young workers, around 50 of them, could be seen at the factory gates, and that “a more serious employment” of new workers was expected in April or May.

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