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In June, Mirafiori stopped on the first of the month, then again during the week from the 22nd to the 29th. Between July and August, the gates will remain closed for four weeks, and today the Body Shop department is once again halted. Even the numbers from the first half of the year suggest that the milestone of one hundred thousand units declared by Stellantis is becoming increasingly distant.

One year after the joint appeal by Elkann and De Meo (then leading Renault) and exactly one month after the latest letter signed by Stellantis, Volkswagen, and Renault calling for support regarding the Made in EU clause of the Industrial Accelerator Act, the Italian-French group and the Wolfsburg-based group—both battered by a crisis that continues to strain their finances—are once again taking up pen and paper. This time, together with Mercedes. And they want to overturn the rules on state aid.

The production data for the first 6 months of 2026 show a recovery compared to the bleak year recorded in 2025, with an overall increase of +13.7%. However, some plants are still struggling. Numbers and data from the Fim Cisl report.

Europe, struggling in the automotive sector, opens its factories and forges agreements with Chinese manufacturers to keep plants and jobs alive: the price, however, is the transfer of technologies and industrial control.

The CEO of Ford, one of the most enthusiastic about scrapping the electrification plan for the lineup to comply with the new course desired by Trump, is now asking for incentives for those who produce in the USA and penalties for those who import cars from abroad. In the crosshairs is the historic rival: General Motors (and the Japanese Toyota, the sales champion).

In the first six months, production numbers improved, but there is little to celebrate: despite the new production of the Jeep Compass in Melfi and the hybrid 500 in Mirafiori giving a slight boost, volumes are still far from those of 2024, a year in which Stellantis already recorded a sharp decline. This is what emerges from the Fim-Cisl report.

After a six-day halt due to Hormuz, Stellantis explains, the grim announcement: Mirafiori will stop for four weeks between July and August. And the unions fear that the temporary contracts signed at the beginning of the year for the camera will not be made permanent.

Stellantis, BMW, and Ferrari are working to replace copper wiring in their cars with aluminum wiring: this is mainly due to cost advantages, but also because of the lower weight. However, the switch from one metal to the other is not simple due to efficiency and size reasons. All the details.

Investors’ doubts about the massive spending on artificial intelligence are causing semiconductor stocks, and more, to fall: at the Milan stock exchange, Technoprobe and STMicroelectronics plummet, but Prysmian also takes a hit, and even Stellantis. All the details.

After freezing level 3 autonomous driving, Stellantis is exploring the robotaxi segment by considering a collaboration with Wayve (which would provide the AI) and Uber (which has the platform).

Stellantis has become a shareholder of Factorial Energy, an American company that develops solid-state batteries, recently listed on the Nasdaq and supported by a fund close to the CIA. All the details.

Stellantis returns to Parliament and although it does not provide certainty about the fate of the plants at risk and the future of Maserati, it puts forward a long series of requests, openly stating that producing in Spain (as it already does, with 950,000 vehicles produced compared to 380,000 in Italy in 2025) would cost much less.

The Stellantis group has been accused of signing a plan that is mostly American-centric, likely to avoid angering the hot-tempered Trump. Facts and insights.

The court of Turin has ordered Stellantis to launch a national information campaign by publishing notices in national newspapers and news websites to give maximum visibility to the recall campaign concerning once again the feared defective Takata airbags.

In the historic English plant in Sunderland, Nissan and Chery could soon coexist. In France, Stellantis will share a plant with Dongfeng, while in Spain Ford is considering hosting Geely. The crisis of historic brands is leading them to “sublease” partially unused factories to Chinese rivals.

One year after the joint appeal by Elkann and De Meo (then leading Renault), Stellantis returns before the executive and the EU legislature in an unprecedented three-pronged formation that includes not only the Losange but also Volkswagen. Here is what they are asking from Europe.

After presenting an industrial plan focused on the USA, Stellantis is concerned with calming European discontent: one billion will go to France for Peugeot, a similar amount in Germany for the new Opel models. Everything remains quiet regarding the Italian front, with Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, and Maserati waiting for responses that are slow to come.

Stellantis stated that the recall will involve inspecting and, if necessary, repairing or replacing the wiring or the electro-hydraulic power steering pump; in the meantime, however, it has urged owners of the affected Jeeps to park away from other vehicles and homes.

For the launch of its first car based on the STLA One platform, Stellantis will have to rely on the Chinese supplier Jing-Jin Electric because the motors produced in a joint venture with the Japanese company Nidec are not ready.

After the presentation of the American-centric industrial plan, Stellantis extends a hand to France and confirms the investments announced by Macron. The focus is on the Alsatian factory in Mulhouse for three Peugeot models.

Stellantis freezes Italy by stating that it never agreed to the return of national production to one million units as hoped by the government (fewer than 380,000 vehicles were produced in the Peninsula in 2025). This year, the target of 100,000 units at the historic Mirafiori hub might even have been missed (the last was closed at 30,000), which has just “celebrated” 18 years of layoffs.

Stellantis has made many announcements, but in the Old Continent it is still unclear how much money and how many models the manufacturer will allocate to the historic plants. Macron claims that for the electric car made in France, the company is ready to invest 1 billion, however the Group remains vague.

The startup founded just six years ago in the Chinese city of Xintai is entering Europe with two electric microcars and an ape car determined to compete not only with the Fiat Topolino, the Opel Rocks, and the Citroen Ami but also with the E-Cars that Stellantis plans to produce in Pomigliano starting in 2028.

Stellantis is not at the peak of its industrial power, and Jaguar Land Rover has survived a very dark year, also battered by a devastating hacker attack. The two European companies intend to explore possible synergies with a very specific geographic focus: Donald Trump’s USA.

After the Tavares period, which had alienated both the powerful UAW union and President Biden, Stellantis is once again focusing primarily on the USA, favoring two American brands—Jeep and Ram—allocating most of its investments to the New World. In Europe, capacity will be reduced by over 800,000 units, while bets are placed on North Africa and South America. Facts, figures, and insights.

Exor’s shareholders’ meeting approves a dividend of 100 million despite a 3.8 billion loss in 2025. And including salary, bonuses, and shares, CEO John Elkann’s compensation exceeds 31 million.

What emerges from the 128 slides of Stellantis’ plan for regaining competitiveness called Fastlane 2030

Stellantis’ strategy for Europe seems to be moving towards a two-pronged approach: city cars and SUVs from Leapmotor, and the higher segment with Voya alongside Dongfeng. Additionally, the group led by Filosa might turn to Jac and Huawei to revive the Maserati sports brand, which has been in severe crisis for at least two years.

While Stellantis announces electric cars in Pomigliano, protests resume in Turin: after the excitement over new hires related to the hybrid 500, workers are questioning the future of Mirafiori. Meanwhile, the company misses an opportunity for a new meeting with about a hundred suppliers from the Piedmont automotive sector to increase production in Algeria.

The invasion of the Chinese brand Leapmotor in the Old Continent has now begun, thanks to the partnership with Stellantis, which provides its supply chain and also hopes to leave the less utilized hubs to the joint venture with the Dragon’s startup, starting with the one in Madrid. In the US, however, the Italian-French group supports the new proposed law aimed at excluding China-made cars from American roads. Data, numbers, forecasts, and scenarios.

Even in the era of cars made in China, Spain will remain one of the main European hubs of the four-wheel industry. Along the Iberian Peninsula, curious cohabitations between Western and Asian brands will be tested, such as Stellantis and Leapotor, and Ford and Geely. Saic, which has MG in its portfolio, is targeting Galicia.

The pact between Stellantis and Dongfeng, in place since the PSA era, is strengthening again. The joint venture, following an investment of 1 billion euros (130 million of which will come from the Italian-French Group), is expected to produce a new energy sedan and SUV both under the Peugeot brand, to which two Jeep models are also expected to be added.

Here are the plans and ambitions of Byd, Jac, and others in Europe regarding Stellantis plants and brands like Maserati.

Democrats and Republicans sign a text aimed at excluding all Chinese vehicles and onboard software from the American market. A race against time to try to defuse any agreements that Trump might sign in China. The protectionist rule cheers Ford and also Stellantis, which, however, intends to export the Chinese Leapmotor car worldwide…

Stellantis has launched its first vehicle dismantling center in Casablanca, Morocco, amid rumors that the next Fiat cars (Grizzly and Koala) might also be produced in North Africa. At the same time, last month it announced plans to increase the production capacity of its Algerian plant. These data and projects contrast sharply with the figures coming from the Italian plants, which are largely underutilized.

Burdened by a loss of 840 million in 2025 and a terrible start to 2026, the Bologna-based sports car team seems less in financial crisis and more in a full-blown identity crisis. But Filosa promises major news on the occasion of the industrial plan that will be unveiled on May 21.

At least for the moment, Stellantis has no intention of divesting any of its brands, keeping all 14. However, only some will compete in the top league under Filosa’s new strategies, meaning in all global markets, while those in crisis will be downgraded to national competition. Or so the latest rumors suggest. Speculations, hypotheses, and scenarios await the Investor Day on May 21.

The brand favored by Mao Zedong, father of the current People’s Republic of China, whose literal translation is “red flag,” is reportedly in negotiations with Stellantis to produce its models in the Italian-French Group’s European plants.

In the end, Stellantis will not sell Poissy to PSG, which had wanted to build its new stadium on the site, but it still angered the French by informing them that no more cars will be produced at that hub, only the recovery of used ones. Le Monde goes on the attack: “It is not closing because the goal is to save face. A new sign of the decline of the French automotive industry and deindustrialization.” According to the French newspaper, “the timing was carefully planned: the day after the municipal elections and well before the presidential elections, which could have amplified the impact of this decision.”

Rumors are resurfacing that Stellantis is courting Chinese brands such as Xiaomi, Xpeng, and Dongfeng to allocate the largely underutilized European plants, including the Italian ones that are continuously under layoff schemes. This strategy is similar to what is being tested in Canada, where Leapmotor would replace the vehicles once destined for the US. Having promised 13 billion in investments on American soil, the Group is increasingly looking overseas.

Stellantis is accelerating not only in North Africa but also with the alliance with the Chinese company Leapmotor (of which it owns 20% and 51% of the JV for internationalization). And the more rumors circulate about new moves with the Hangzhou brand, the more the position seems to lean towards two European Group plants: Cassino and Poissy.

The partnership with the Chinese startup established during the tenure of former CEO Tavares is one of the few things confirmed by Stellantis’ new CEO, who seems to have big plans for Leapmotor, both in Canada to try to appease Ottawa’s anger and in South America.

While production in Italian plants continues to stall year after year, the factory that Stellantis has in Algeria increased from 17,000 vehicles in 2024 to 53,000 in 2025. The group is aiming for 135,000 units. Among the possible cars produced in North Africa, the Alfa Romeo Junior is also mentioned; meanwhile, the Cassino hub, the birthplace of many Biscione models, is at risk of closure.

While Fiat cars recorded 63,000 registrations between January and February 2026, with a 36.9% year-on-year increase, Italian production is paradoxically at a low point and the brand is becoming less and less Italian. Our domestic plants find themselves having to compete internally not only with the Polish and Serbian facilities but also with the hub in Morocco, where Stellantis intends to produce two new SUVs bearing the “Turin” logo…

US automakers and others want Trump to ban the entry of Chinese cars even if they set up factories and value chains in the United States, bringing investment and jobs. So far, however, the American president has taken a completely different approach.

In the coming days, Bocconi will host a meeting on the industrial future of the Italian car industry: among the speakers is economist Zirpoli, who is certainly not lenient when it comes to talking about Stellantis. But most notably, Landini will also be present, who has long been accused by Calenda of not taking care of the Elkanns’ companies for fear of being excluded from Repubblica. The letter from Claudio Trezzano.

Approximately 700,000 recently produced hybrid cars from the Stellantis group have been involved in a new recall campaign due to the possibility of onboard fires. The details

“The Last Worker. Final Song of the Great Factory” (Einaudi) read by Tullio Fazzolari

Stellantis, the Filosa Plan requires investments and employment, while Cassino is in the midst of an “industrial decline” now in its eighth year. The intervention of Fernando Uliano from Fim-Cisl.