Volkswagen de México continues to demonstrate its confidence in the iconic Puebla assembly plant, with the announcement of a new investment to expand the plant with a new painting warehouse for a sum of 763.5 million dollars, which will take place between the years 2022 and 2025, while it will integrate a new internal combustion vehicle into its manufacturing lines.

Olivia Salomón, Secretary of the State Economy, shared that Volkswagen de México at its plant in Puebla has a 55-year history, which currently generates more than 65 thousand jobs through 362 economic units and adds 1,162 million dollars in investment throughout the year. six-year term, to which is added the investment announced today of an additional 763.5 million dollars.

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The new paint shop will have 100% electric bodywork baking processes and incinerators, using energy from renewable sources, from a wind farm, and which is the one that currently supplies this input to the vehicle production processes and assembly engines. This innovation represents a reduction of 29 tons of CO2 per year. Part of the announced investment will be used to integrate a new internal combustion vehicle into the production lines, which will be presented later.

The Governor of Puebla, Miguel Barbosa commented that "this investment is a vote of confidence from one of the largest car factories globally", in addition to emphasizing the importance that the plant has had in the city and state of Puebla, therefore, "Puebla cannot be understood without Volkswagen."

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Pablo Di Si, President and CEO of Volkswagen Group America and CEO of the region, was present at the investment announcement, who said: 'Our industry is facing a vertiginous transformation process. That is why we have to invest in electric vehicles, without neglecting combustion vehicles, in order to face this transition that will take more or less years, depending on the markets. But that is unavoidable."

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