Seat hosts H.M. King Felipe VI at new Martorell site

The Spanish King Felipe VI, President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Pere Aragones, and the Minister of Industry and Tourism, Jordi Hereu have all paid a visit to Seat's new Martorell battery assembly plant.

The new site will assemble cells from Volkswagen Group's PowerCo's Sagunto gigafactory, which is also under construction for the Volkswagen Group's electric urban car family. The Martorell plant is set to start production by the end of 2025.

The new battery assembly plant will form a core part of Seat's electrification journey. Covering more than 64,000sqm, it comes after an investment of €300 million ($438 million) and is set to initially produce 1,400 battery systems per day. These systems will then be transferred directly to the assembly lines of the new electric cars via a 600m-long conveyor system. The new plant additionally house 11,000 solar panels which will produce 70% of the energy required for the entire process.