a huge industrial unit “GigaFactory” to produce electric car batteries, at a total investment cost of 1.28 billion US dollars, It is expected to see the light of the city of Quneitra, as Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch, today, Thursday, June 6, 2024 in Rabat, chaired the signing ceremony of a strategic investment agreement in order to bring about it. This project, according to the official data announced after the signing, will bring 17,000 “direct and indirect” jobs, including 2,300 “high-efficiency” jobs. The agreement was signed, according to a press release for the Presidency of the Government, reached by Business Press, between the Moroccan government and the Chinese-European group, “Gotion High-Tech”, the world leader in the field of electrical mobility, with the aim of creating a unit. Huge “GIGAFACTORY” with an integrated system for the production of electric car batteries in the city of Quneitra The strategy of King Mohammed VI.
The signing of this major investment agreement will integrate into multiple relevant government sectors, signed by Abdelwafi Laftit, Minister of the Interior, Nadia Fattah, Minister of Economy and Finance, Nizar Baraka, Minister of Equipment and Water, and Fatima. Al-Zahraa Al-Mansoori, Minister of National Territory Preparation, Construction, Housing and City Politics, Younes Skori, Minister of Economic Integration, Micro-Employment, Employment and Competencies, Riad Mazour, Minister of Industry and Trade, and Leila Benali, Minister of Energy Transition and Development Sustainable, in addition to Mohsen Jazouli, Delegate Minister in charge of Investment, Convergence and Public Policy Assessment, and Faouzi Lekjaa, Delegate Minister in charge of the Budget. On the investor group, Lee Zehan, Director General of the Chinese-European Group, “Goshan Hi-Tech”, was attended by the Director General of the Moroccan Agency for Investment and Export Development, Ali Seddiqui. The Moroccan government stated that the establishment of this huge new factory prompted the Kingdom to put its confidence in “Gochon Hi-Tech”, as a leader in the electric battery sector.
With a capacity of GWH 20 and an investment cost of $1.28 billion, the project details and in the technical details of the project “The first part of this investment will enable the development of the industrial activities of the group in Morocco, and the development of an integrated system for the production of electric car batteries with a total capacity that can be The GWH is about 100 gigawatt-hours, which calls for a total investment cost of 6.5 billion dollars. In Europe and the United States, it has previously established 12 huge industrial units over the past two years, to keep pace with the global demand for the electric mobility sector.”
وأضاف: “إن اختيار هذه المجموعة يدل على ثقة بلادنا بالمغرب كوجهة رئيسية ومنصة استثمارية متميزة، خاصة على مستوى النظم الصناعية التي تساهم في توفير فرص العمل وخلق قيمة مضافة”. بالمناسبة، ذكر البلاغ بأن “المغرب أصبح على مدى السنوات الخمس والعشرين الماضية منصة مرجعية في مهن السيارات والطيران، مما سمح لبلدنا بالاندماج بشكل وثيق في سلاسل القيمة الدولية”. “اليوم، بفضل الرؤية الملكية الثاقبة، تعمل المملكة المغربية على تعزيز مكانتها على الساحة الدولية من حيث المهن المضافة كالتنقل الكهربائي. من أجل تخصيص مكاسب المملكة، دعم نقل نظام المركبات الصناعية نحو الكهرباء، وتعزيز تكوين الثروة لصالح المواطنين.