Carlos Tavares – Stellantis: “We have done a lot of unpopular things in recent years…”

The French boss returned to the decisions he made for Stellantis in recent months and “which were not always well understood”.

On Tuesday, September 17, during the inauguration of the Global Commercial Vehicle Hub at the Mirafiori Automotive Park 2030 in Turin, Italy, Carlos Tavares agreed that some strategic decisions taken in recent years have not been well received: “We have done many unpopular things in recent years to avoid a situation similar to that of Volkswagen as much as possible.“, referring to the possibility that VW has considered in recent weeks of closing some of its factories.

Too early to tell

The CEO of Stellantis, for whom it is essential that the cost of purchasing an electric vehicle by a customer must be comparable to that of a thermal car, thus continued the justification of certain choices made, decried including internally by the employees of its different brands: “We have been criticized for this, for having taken decisions that have not always been well understood (…) We are working very hard to avoid this situation. (the closure of factories, editor’s note) and The future will tell us whether we will be able to avoid the problems or not.“It is too early to say today,” reports the economic newspaper L’Usine Nouvelle.