To accommodate these new sophisticated vehicles that are running on artificial intelligence, the infrastructure they will operate on also needs to be equally advanced.
Marelli plans to start moving into the 200,000-sq.-ft. building, which fellow Tier 1 supplier Federal-Mogul vacated in 2015, late this year, with full occupancy expected by March 2021.
The repurposed Indiana Transmission Plant II, to be renamed Kokomo Engine Plant, will be the source of all U.S. production for the GMET4 engine that currently is built in Termoli, Italy.
The automaker plans to cut daily production at the Almussafes plant by 100 units, from 1,740 to 1,640. It also trimmed production by 100 units per day at the end of September.