Steve Beattie has returned to Vauxhall after six years with different carmakers to take the function of gross sales and operations director.
Beattie was Vauxhall’s nationwide contract rent and leasing supervisor when he left the British model after 12 years to affix Volvo Automobile UK’s senior group in 2017, after which in 2022 he took on the function of head of European fleet and gross sales operations at Chinese language model Nio, which imports electrical automobiles into Germany, Norway, Sweden and Netherlands.
Nio is but to start gross sales within the UK, though it has start preparations.
The Volvo and Nio roles have broadened his expertise significantly from his profession’s earlier concentrate on fleet and enterprise gross sales, as he gained accountability for overseeing all gross sales delivered by Volvo’s retail community, together with elements and repair hours, and at Nio he was a part of a group establishing operations for gross sales and charging in launch markets.
His return to Vauxhall this 12 months coincides with the model’s ambition to have an electrical variant in each mannequin line by the tip of this 12 months.
Vauxhall is a part of Stellantis UK, which has a cross-brand strategy to a lot of the areas of its fleet enterprise throughout leasing, rental, main fleets and particular automobile operations. Smaller fleets and SMEs nonetheless work together with Vauxhall at model stage.
Stellantis plans to have greater than 75 battery electrical automobile (BEVs) fashions out there, globally, by the tip of the last decade.
Its Dare Ahead 2030 strategic plan is focusing on 100% of gross sales in Europe and 50% of gross sales in the USA to be BEVs by the tip of the last decade, equating to annual gross sales of 5 million by 2030.
4 platforms type the spine of the EVs from all Stellantis manufacturers. The platforms are mentioned to supply a excessive stage of flexibility, each in size and width, and part sharing.
Alongside the small, medium and huge automobile platforms might be one devoted for industrial automobiles, akin to vans and pick-ups. The platforms might be paired with a household of three electrical motors, providing different configurations together with front- rear- and all-wheel drive, plus plug-in hybrid.
