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Chery is looking to design and build a car in Europe (Yasuyoshi CHIBA) \u00b7 Yasuyoshi CHIBA\/AFP\/AFP <\/p>\n Chery is looking to design and build a car in Europe (Yasuyoshi CHIBA) \u00b7 Yasuyoshi CHIBA\/AFP\/AFP <\/p>\n
Chinese carmaker Chery said Tuesday it wants to manufacture a small electric vehicle in Europe for the European market.<\/p>\n
“We want to build a French car for the French,” Chery France’s director Hanbang Yu told AFP.<\/p>\n
Chery is China’s third-largest carmaker, but it has long been China’s top exporter, selling abroad half of its 2.8 million vehicles it manufactured last year.<\/p>\n
But it has only recently begun to sell cars in Europe, where it lags behind Chinese rival SAIC which sells cars in the region under the historic British badge MG.<\/p>\n
Chery has been boosting the sales network of its Jaecoo and Omoda brands in Europe, which launched in France this month.<\/p>\n
To reinforce its European operations, Chery has decided to install a research and development centre in Paris “to work on a small city car, because France would be a very big market for this little car, and the best way is to design it in France,” said Lionel French Keogh, Chery’s commercial director in France.<\/p>\n
“We want to learn what French consumers\u2019 tastes are, and we want a small, beautiful design,” added Hanbang Yu.<\/p>\n
Chery has already begun assembling hybrid cars in Spain at a former Nissan plant, selling them under the Ebro brand.<\/p>\n
It aims to raise production to 200,000 cars per year within three years and is looking at acquiring other manufacturing sites in Europe.<\/p>\n
Spain and Hungary have been\u00a0popular among Chinese companies looking to begin battery and car production in Europe to escape EU tariffs on imported vehicles.<\/p>\n
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