Stellantis is preparing to stop vehicle production at the historic Yvelines site. End applause? “The decision on whether or not to continue car production after 2028 will be taken as part of the strategic plan in the first half of 2026,” briefly stated the press release of the French-Italian-American group this Wednesday. A highly political formulation to cushion the shock of a possible decision. Eric Haan, director of the site, gathered elected officials this Wednesday in an extraordinary meeting of the CSE, to present them with an estimate of the plant’s activity.
The site cannot exceed 85,000 units this year in two shifts (after 87,000 units last year, 145,000 in 2023). That’s 400 per day, of which less than 5%… is the DS3, a model launched in 2018. Production of the current Opel Mokka and DS3 small SUVs will end in less than three years. This old factory founded in 1938, which produces Matford, Ford, Simca, Chrysler, Talbot, Peugeot, Citroën, has only 2,000 employees today… compared to 24,000 in the 1980s.
