The Barcelona factory of Nissan will stop producing the Nissan Pulsar and the NV200 Evalia

The plant that Nissan operates in Barcelona will undergo significant changes on its assembly lines when next summer arrives, with the elimination of two models and the arrival of new ones. This move by Nissan is based, on one hand, on the numbers, or in other words the sales figures, and on the other hand on maintaining and consolidating the leadership of the Nissan plant in Barcelona.

Two models will be discontinued at Nissan’s Barcelona plant, the first of which is the Pulsar. In the words of Nissan itself, production of the Pulsar is ending due to the rise in sales of crossover models at the expense of compact C-segment vehicles, a niche that Nissan will continue to exploit with other models such as the Leaf and the Qashqai, its current sales success. Although the Pulsar’s own sales have undoubtedly also played a part in ending its production, as it is a model that has never really taken off in Europe and has fallen well short of its sales targets.

The other model that the Nissan plant in Barcelona will stop producing is the Nissan NV200 Evalia, the passenger version of its commercial van. In return, the electric version of this van, the e-NV200, will go into production, in both its passenger and commercial versions. This is an improved version of the model currently built, which will enter production next February, as Nissan already previewed at the Nissan Futures event held in Oslo last October.

The Pulsar and the NV200 will cease production in June and July respectively, and once this happens the Barcelona plant will also focus on the production of pick-up models. Although it already manufactures the Nissan Navara, the other two models born from the Renault-Nissan and Mercedes-Benz alliance will now be added: the Alaskan, which is not sold in Spain, and the recently unveiled X-Class from Mercedes-Benz.

None of these changes will affect the factory’s workforce, at least not immediately; in the medium and long term, depending on the production volume of these pick-ups, changes may occur.