He says that the PERTE of the electric vehicle will be convened “in the near future” and more aid will be articulated together with the autonomous communities
VALLADOLID, 24 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has assured today that the Government has committed 2,000 million for the automotive sector and is working with the autonomous communities to articulate more aid. In this sense, he wanted to make it clear that his Executive “will do everything in his power” so that electric vehicle manufacturers invest here and Spain is “leader” in this sector. “Accelerating” investment, he added, is a “priority”.
Sánchez has spoken in this regard during his visit to the Renault Group I D i Center in Valladolid, a facility that he has visited for the third time since he became President of the Government. And he does so after the Volkswagen Group announced that it is considering not carrying out the construction of the battery gigafactory that it had planned in Sagunto (Valencia) and that implies an investment of 3,000 million euros.
The President of the Government recalled that last Friday the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism approved the definitive resolution of the line of support for the industrial value chain of the Strategic Project for the Recovery and Economic Transformation of the Electric and Connected Vehicle (PERTE_VEC) which will be convened in “next dates”.
In addition, he has detailed in this sense that it will involve a public investment of 877.2 million euros and will mobilize investments worth 2,250 million euros in the sector and has recalled that the PERTE_VEC is added to other lines that are being executed such as the Plan Moves, the technological program for sustainable mobility of the Center for Industrial Technological Development (CDTI) or the program to integrate artificial intelligence into value chains to transform the economic fabric.
“In total, the public resources committed to helping the automotive sector exceed 2,000 million euros”, he defended, after which he advanced that the Executive is working on the articulation of other instruments promoted together with the autonomous communities to support the value chain.
“The Government will do everything in its power so that the manufacturers who want to invest in Spain find the support so that their projects are successful, there is no other country where the commitment to the electrification of the sector is more profitable”, insisted the President.
That said, Sánchez has defended that Spain should aspire to become a “world leader” country in the manufacture of electric cars, a point in which he has guaranteed that for the Government “accelerating” the transition towards the electrified vehicle is a “priority” with the goal of saving jobs and industrial plants.
In this act, the president highlighted the importance of this type of company in the “territorial structure”, both due to the relevance of its plants and the employment generated in auxiliary companies.
The head of the Executive has defended that “the energy blackmail of an autocrat” should not lead the EU to postpone its commitment to sustainability, but rather has invited progress in the consolidation of decarbonization from a commitment to a “greener” economy to grow “more robustly” in the face of the “devastating effects” of the “climate emergency”.
Finally, Sánchez has outlined that the future of the sector “goes through innovation and technological development, combined with energy efficiency”, after which he has concluded his speech at this event in which he was accompanied by the president of Renault Spain, José Vicente de los Mozos, the Regional Minister of Economy and Finance, Carlos Fernández Carriedo, and the Mayor of Valladolid, Óscar Puente, with a quote from the writer from Valladolid, Miguel Delibes.
“It is necessary to harmonize nature and technology so that it, taking advantage of organic waste, can close the production cycle in a rational and orderly manner,” Sánchez settled.
