{"id":583768,"date":"2025-11-21T02:20:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/583768\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T02:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:20:21","slug":"magna-to-produce-chinas-gac-electric-vehicles-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/583768\/","title":{"rendered":"Magna to produce China&#8217;s GAC electric vehicles in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">By Nora Eckert<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">DETROIT (Reuters) -China&#8217;s Guangzhou Automobile Group (\u200bGAC) will build its electric \u200cAION V model at a Magna facility in Austria, \u200cthe two companies said on Thursday, a strategy that should help GAC avoid the EU&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/live\/trump-tariffs-live-updates-trump-vows-export-curbs-india-hike-on-deck-china-and-canada-envoys-visit-us-200619355.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:tariffs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tariffs<\/a> on China-made EVs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The GAC vehicle \u2060will be produced \u200cat Magna&#8217;s facility in Graz, Austria, which can make \u200dgasoline-powered, hybrid and electric vehicles on shared lines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Last year, the EU introduced provisional tariffs of \u200bup to 37.6% on China-\u200cmade EVs, describing their imports as a potential flood of unfairly subsidized EVs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">\u201cEurope is a vital market in GAC\u2019s global development,\u201d said Wei Haigang, president of \u2060GAC International.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Roland Prettner, \u200bpresident of the Magna Steyr \u200bcontract manufacturing business, said its expertise will allow automakers like GAC to \u200dlocalize production \u2060efficiently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The GAC deal comes after Magna said in September it would build battery-powered \u2060models for XPeng at the same Graz facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(\u200cReporting by Nora Eckert in Detroit; \u200cEditing by Sonali Paul)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Nora Eckert DETROIT (Reuters) -China&#8217;s Guangzhou Automobile Group (\u200bGAC) will build its electric \u200cAION V model at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1395,2000,299,5187,184253],"class_list":{"0":"post-583768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-guangzhou-automobile-group"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115585300974307658","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}