- In the first 10 months of 2024, Great Britain produced 105,834 light utility vehicles, including 72,547 in Luton (59,951 thermal and 12,596 battery electric in the first 10 months of 2024), and 15,685 in Ellesmere Port (over the same period, all battery electric).
- While the Stellantis group announced last summer that it could close one of the two assembly plants in Great Britain that it currently owns, and we could think that it would be the Ellesmere Port plant, which production volume has become very low since the end of assembly of the Astra sedan in 2022 (transferred to the Rüsselsheim site in Germany), the carmaker announces that it may close the Luton plant as early as next year. The Luton plant assembles some of the group's N1-2 segment vans, namely the Opel Vivaro, Peugeot Expert, Citroën Jumpy and Fiat Scudo, in both thermal and electric versions.
- The carmaker's management wishes to concentrate the production of electric vans of all segments on the Ellesmere Port site, which already assembles the electric versions of the N1-1 segment vans, namely the Opel Combo, Peugeot Partner, Citroën Berlingo, Fiat Doblo and Toyota ProAce City. The electric vans currently produced in Luton (12,596 over the last 10 months) will therefore be transferred to the Ellesmere Port plant. The Ellesmere Port site would therefore offer a potential of at least 30,000 vehicles produced in 2025, a figure that should tend to increase until 2035, due to the European electrification policy.
- The thermal versions of the N1-2 segment vans (59,951 units in the first 10 months of 2024), currently produced in Luton, will be concentrated on the French site of Hordain where most of the Opel Vivaro, Peugeot Expert, Citroën Jumpy, Fiat Scudo and Toyota ProAce are already produced.
