Volkswagen Reveals Plans For Wolfsburg Factory
Volkswagen continues to ponder what course It wants to take to the electric car future under new CEO Oliver Blume.
Volkswagen continues to ponder what course It wants to take to the electric car future under new CEO Oliver Blume.
Volkswagen electric car sales were up strongly year on year in the first half of 2022, despite supply chain issues.
This morning, Volkswagen officially took the wraps off of the highly anticipated ID.4 electric crossover. Ahead of the public unveiling, CleanTechnica sat down with Johan de Nysschen, Chief Operating Officer Volkswagen America, Matthew Renna, Volkswagen America Vice President of e-mobility, and Jeffrey Lear, Volkswagen America Product Manager of Electric Vehicles for a live event in Los Angeles.
Volkswagen ID.4 production just started today in Zwickau, Germany. It is first being produced at the Volkswagen Group factory there that just recently produced its last fossil fuel vehicle, after 116 years of operation. The factory is now focused on producing electric vehicles. The ID.3 was the first, and now the ID.4 is in production.
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 has announced that it has started pre-production of the Volkswagen ID at its first purely EV-focused factory in China.
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.
Volkswagen has begun making pre-production versions of its ID.3 electric car ahead of full production, which is scheduled for the middle of 2020.
In a move that it believes is the first of its kind in the world for a major car factory, Volkswagen is converting its automotive factory in Zwickau, Germany from the production of internal combustion vehicles to produce electric vehicles. The news this week builds on a higher level announcement that VW issued about the conversion of the Zwickau plant to support electric vehicles late last year.
Volkswagen AG will be investing around €1 billion to fully convert its manufacturing facility in Zwickau, Germany, to electric vehicle production over the next 5 years. This is part of a broader €22.8 billion investment package for 2018–2022.