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The Stellantis-backed Automotive Cells Company (ACC) told unions it had dropped plans to build gigafactories in both Italy and Germany, the Italian metalworkers’ union UILM said in a statement on Saturday.
ACC, a battery joint venture in which Stellantis is the largest investor, had plans for three gigafactories in Europe -- in France, Germany and Italy.
However, UILM said ACC management had informed them that the planned projects for Termoli, in Italy, and Kaiserslautern, in Germany, had been “definitively shelved”.
ACC said in a subsequent statement on Saturday that the projects in Germany and Italy had been on standby since May 2024 and added that the “prerequisites” to restart them were unlikely to be met. It said “different scenarios” were being considered.
