Transparent Factory in Dresden Now Producing Volkswagen ID.3
This is the 4th Volkswagen factory producing MEB-based electric vehicles.
This is the 4th Volkswagen factory producing MEB-based electric vehicles.
October saw the Dutch electric vehicle (EV) market return to the fast lane, jumping 228% year over year (YoY) to 9,116 units, the market’s best score ever if we exclude December months (which are prone to incentive-derived year-end rushes).
Volkswagen opened up mass-market orders for the ID.3 this week in Europe, while also opening up ID.3 1st (limited edition) ordering in the UK — mass-market ID.3 ordering starts in the autumn in the UK.
Volkswagen’s Zwickau factory is switching 100% to electric vehicles. It will produce a total of 6 models from 3 Volkswagen Group brands (Volkswagen, Audi, and Seat). Today was the last day it produced a fossil fuel vehicle, vehicle #6,049,207 from the factory under Volkswagen’s reign, a Golf R Estate.
Volkswagen is putting 150 ID.3 cars in the hands of employees to drive and gather performance data ahead of the start of deliveries in September.
With the Netherlands overall market dropping 53% year over year (YoY), the local plugin vehicle market also once again slipped into red, dropping 28% YoY in May to 2,023 plugin registrations.
Volkswagen Group has been spending a lot of time these days focused on its electrification plans — or e-mobility, as they call it in Europe. Some take this as simply PR, but I think the sales targets are real and we know the company has launched an initial electric car factory and is investing tens of billions of euros into batteries and EV development.
On January 1, Volkswagen will pull all its software development activities together under the umbrella of a new division called Car.Software. One goal is the creation of a dedicated operating system — vw.os — for all vehicles manufactured by Volkswagen Group.
At the launch ceremony for the Volkswagen ID.3 in Zwickau, Germany, the company showed it is dead serious about being a leader of the electric car revolution.
We write about Tesla a lot because it is pushing, pulling, and tickling the auto industry forward. It is a wild success story like we’ve never before seen in cleantech, have perhaps never really seen in the auto industry, and has been sorely needed in US manufacturing. Nonetheless, Tesla is one corner of a big puzzle on transportation electrification. The challenging question has been, who’s going to follow Tesla’s lead?