To prepare it 100% electric future and develop its future production strategy, Audi relies on its existing global production network: “We prefer to invest in our existing plants to be as efficient and flexible as newly built production sites or the latest generation plants”said Gerd Walker, Audi Board Member for Production and Logistics.

The German manufacturer wants to make production more flexible and sustainable, to ensure its readiness for long-term operation. In line with this goal, Audi has developed a global strategyand created the 360 ​​Factory project, which emphasizes profitability, sustainability, flexibility and attractiveness.

Audi: the road map for a 100% electric future

By 2030Audi will be manufacture 100% electric models in all its factories around the world: to this end, the firm with the four rings is investing around 500 million euros to train its staff until 2025. Today, Audi already has two factories, Böllinger Höfe and Brussels, which already produce 100% electric vehicles.

In 2023, the production of 100% electric models will start in Ingolstadt with the Audi Q6 E-tron, and then gradually start at the plants in Neckarsulm, San Jose Chiapa and Gyor. In 2029, all Audi plants will produce at least one 100% electric model. Production of thermal models will be curtailed by the beginning of the next decade. New factories will also see the light of day, for example, at the end of 2024 in Changchun (China) in partnership with FAW, which will specialize in the PPE (Premium Platform Electric) platform.

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Audi: increased performance

Audi will use this electric transformation to productivity improvement and process optimization, become more profitable, sustainable, attractive and flexible. The firm aims to halve the annual costs of its factories by 2033, and will also continue to digitize production, for example using the Edge Cloud 4 Production solution, which will replace expensive industrial PCs.

In the future, Audi will also use a new modular assembly solution to simplify production, offering a greater variety of products. for save material resources and improve collaboration capabilities between different sites, virtual assembly planning will also be deployed.

Audi: more flexibility and durability

To better adapt to customer demand, Audi will make its production processes even more flexible: for example, the new Audi Q6 E-tron will initially be built in Ingolstadt on the same production line as the Audi A4 and Audi A5, and will then gradually replace it. their.

Audi wants too reduce the ecological footprint production and logistics: by 2025 the goal is toachieving carbon neutrality at all Audi production facilities worldwide. But the factories in Brussels, Gyor and Böllinger Höfe in Neckarsulm have already achieved this goal. The program will focus on the use of resources and water, while aiming to protect and conserve biodiversity.

By 2030, the company wants halve your environmental impact in the areas of primary energy consumption, emissions from power plants, CO2 equivalents, air pollutants, local water risk and volumes of wastewater and waste, through domestic renewable energy production and through the creation of circular value chains using resources in a closed loop.

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