Morocco’s automotive industry shifts gears to prep for EV era

(15 May 2024)
MOROCCO CAR INDUSTRY

SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Tangier, Morocco - 29 April 2024
1. Various of car parks full of brand new cars outside the Renault factory on the outskirts of Tangier waiting to be exported
2. Various of new vans headed for train to port
3. Various of workers inside the Renault factory building cars

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Rabat, Morocco - 12 March 2024
4. Various exteriors of the Moroccan Ministry of Trade and Industry
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ryad Mezour, Moroccan Minister for Trade and Industry:
“It’s the most competitive platform, to build automotives, the most decarbonised platform in the world. This is what makes Morocco attractive and this is what made the Morocco platform grow that fast and reach a level of one million capacity per year to be built by 2025. So, Morocco has built it in fifteen years from nothing. We didn’t export a car fifteen years ago."

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Tangier, Morocco - 29 April 2024
6. Various of workers inside the Renault factory building cars

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Rabat, Morocco - 12 March 2024
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ryad Mezour, Moroccan Minister of Trade and Industry:
“My job as a government (minister) is to make jobs, create jobs. I have no other job. I have one single priority, not export, not being competitive. I have a single priority which makes things simple, it’s to create jobs. And in order to create jobs, I have to make the people who create jobs happy, so that they create their initial jobs and they repeat their intention. So, I have to make them happy, I have to make competitiveness and to open for them the market.”

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Tangier, Morocco, 29 April 2024
8. Various of robots in action inside the Renault factory

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Rabat, Morocco, 12 March 2024
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ryad Mezour, Moroccan Minister of Trade and Industry:
“We’re living in instability in terms of trade rules that makes it more difficult for countries like Morocco that invested heavily in open, free and fair trade.”

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Casablanca, Morocco - 8 May 2024
10. Various exteriors of Somaca Factory
11. Various of Mohamed Bachiri, chairman of Renault group Morocco working in his office
12. SOUNDBITE (French) Mohamed Bachiri, chairman of Renault group Morocco:
“Morocco became a strategic pillar in the industrial strategy of the group at the international level. We have an annual production capacity of 440,000 vehicles that will reach 500,000 by 2025. This will allow the cars we build in Morocco, 'Made in Morocco' to be exported to more than the seventy countries to which we are currently exporting.”

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ARCHIVE: Rabat, Morocco - 22 February 2024
13. Various of China's Ambassador to Morocco, Li Changlin, during interview
14. SOUNDBITE (French) Li Changlin, China's Ambassador to Morocco:
“For the Chinese, Morocco has some advantages compared to other countries. Not only is it well situated geographically, but it has a stable economic, social and political environment with a qualified and not expensive workforce. Also, the country adopted last year a new investment charter. All these conditions favoured important investments by Chinese enterprises in Morocco.”

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Tangier, Morocco - 29 April 2024
15. Various of workers in factory, robots cutting metal
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Business incentives and investing in infrastructure have allowed Morocco to grow its automotive industry from virtually non-existent to Africa's largest in less than two decades.




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