Puebla will have the first vehicle assembly plant in the American continent by the Link EV Electric Vehicles company that will settle in Ciudad Modelo.

An investment of 256 million dollars is estimated in the next 5 years, which is expected to start in July and they estimate to generate 400 direct jobs, 1,250 indirect jobs and in less than 12 months the first transports will leave.

The above was announced by the governor of the state of Puebla, Luis Miguel Barbosa Huerta, the head of the Ministry of Economy, Olivia Salomón and Sergio de la Vega, president of Citizens Resources Link EV, where they indicated that the installation will be headed by businessmen from Puebla and international investors.

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The first phase will have four production lines that will assemble vans, as well as trucks, and Sergio de la Vega explained that his goal is to assemble one vehicle a day to achieve 1,400 a year, while in phases 2 and 3, which ranges from 3 in 5 years, it is planned to build up to 10,000 vehicles per year.

De la Vega welcomed the fact that this plant has Ciudad Modelo as a settlement in the municipality of San José Chiapa, since he considers that it has higher standards than a large-scale industrial cluster.

“Puebla is one of the best places for this, we have one more thing that I want to add, if you want to manufacture vehicles for sustainable production, you have to be sustainable in everything, that is, in the way of manufacturing and Puebla offers one of the best places to do this, which is Ciudad Modelo”, he commented.

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For her part, Olivia Salomón, confirmed that at the same time that the company will be installed, it will initiate a recruitment program, as well as training with young people who graduated from the technological universities of the San José Chiapa, Lara Grajales and neighboring municipalities. Model City. In addition to offering vacancies to people who live in this region.

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