Foxconn, a subsidiary of the Hon Hai Know-how Group, is trying to do contract manufacturing work for EVs. The brand new manufacturing websites will cater to “well-known home and international vehicle manufacturers,” the corporate mentioned on social media.
The trial manufacturing centre might be situated within the Zhangzhou Airport Financial Complete Experimental Zone, Automobile Information China stories. They may span about 700 acres and embody “a enterprise headquarters, R&D centre, engineering centre, industrial analysis institute, advertising and marketing centre, and provide chain administration centre.”
The Taiwanese contract producer, who’s finest recognized for making the iPhone on behalf of Apple, needs to speculate round 1 billion yuan or 138 million {dollars} in its new web site.
Foxconn is by far no stranger to the EV trade. In January, it arrange a new-energy automobile (NEV) firm in Central China’s Henan Province. The purpose is to analysis and manufacture parts for NEVs.
It additionally beforehand developed an open automobile platform referred to as Mobility in Concord, which is used within the B-ON transporter Pelikan, as an example. It additionally joined forces with Bolloré in 2023 to develop solid-state batteries for electrical two-wheelers and fashioned the equally owned three way partnership ‘SiliconAuto’ with Stellantis final yr. Headquartered within the Netherlands, it develops and sells superior semiconductors, significantly for electrical automobiles. In 2022, Foxconn even purchased land in Saudi Arabia to provide electrical automobiles for the model Ceer, which needs to supply EVs there from 2025.
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