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Area Development - Site Selection, Facility Planning and Workforce Development

Spain-Based Wallbox Establishes Arlington, Texas, Manufacturing Facility

09/09/2021
Wallbox, a Spain-based leading provider of electric vehicle charging solutions, will locate its first U.S. manufacturing facility in Arlington, Texas. The project is expected to create 250 direct jobs over the coming years.

According to company officials, the 130,000 square foot high-tech plant will have enough capacity to fully support Wallbox’s expansion plans in North America for the next decade. Production is expected to start as early as June 2022 with production lines for Wallbox’s Pulsar Plus AC chargers; lines for Quasar, its DC bidirectional charger, and Supernova, its DC fast charger for public use, are anticipated to follow in the first half of 2023.

“The U.S. automotive and energy markets are at an inflection point. Automotive electrification will accelerate significantly due to initiatives aimed at meeting aggressive greenhouse gas emission targets, which will significantly increase the demand for our EV charging and energy management solutions,” said Enric Asunción, Co-Founder and CEO of Wallbox. “This new factory will be an instrumental step in our expansion in the North American market, enabling us not only to meet the growing demand, but also to accelerate the launch of new products and enter the business and public EV charging segments as we bring our production stateside.”

The U.S.-based facility will play a vital role in expanding the company’s presence in North America as the company expects to manufacture a total of 290,000 units annually by 2027 and reach its full capacity of 500,000 units by 2030.

“Between the highly successful launch of our residential charger Pulsar Plus and our recently announced strategic alliance with SunPower to offer packaged EV charger and solar installations across the U.S. market, Wallbox has made great strides in establishing and growing its brand in the country this year,” said Douglas Alfaro, GM of North America at Wallbox.

The Arlington facility will be Wallbox’s fourth manufacturing site, additive to two facilities in Europe and one in China. A global company with a presence in 68 countries, Wallbox operates with a vertically integrated supply chain and does its product manufacturing in-house from design to production.

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