- Stellantis will build Dongfeng’s Voyah EVs in France through a new European joint venture.
- The deal follows Stellantis’ Leapmotor tie-up, which already brings Chinese EV production to Spain.
- Chinese automakers are turning to European assembly to blunt tariffs and gain a local foothold.
Stellantis, the automotive conglomerate that owns Jeep, Ram, and 12 other car brands, has just announced a joint venture agreement with China’s Dongfeng to build Voyah EVs in one of its European factories. It already has a similar deal with Leapmotor, under which the latter is assembling its vehicles at a Stellantis plant in Spain to bypass import tariffs these vehicles would have faced if they were manufactured in China.
