At a staff meeting held at the Wolfsburg plant, Volkswagen CEO Thomas Schaefer announced that the brand is investing almost 460 million euros at its historic factory in Wolfsburg until early 2025.

“Volkswagen stands for electric mobility for everyone. And the Wolfsburg plant is a stakeholder in this evolution of the Group. At our historic site alone, we are investing around €460 million by early 2025 to prepare the plant for the MEB platform. The expansion of ID.3 production is the first important step towards the conversion of our main factory to electric mobility. Thanks to these strong decisions and these large-scale investments, we intend to further strengthen the plant’s competitiveness and give the company’s personnel concrete long-term perspectives.”– said Thomas Schaefer, CEO of the Volkswagen brand and member of the board of the concern, responsible for mass brands.

Restyled Volkswagen ID.3: 2023 release

These investments are mainly for training production of the new updated Volkswagen ID.3. Production of the new all-electric compact sedan will begin on assembly lines in Wolfsburg from 2023in addition to current production at the Zwickau plant.

From 2024, the model will be fully produced in Wolfsburg, and the production ramp-up will be completed by the end of 2025. To prepare for the production of this new ID.3, Volkswagen is currently preparing the necessary training measures for the workforce. .

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Volkswagen Wolfsburg: 100% electric SUV of the future

After the launch of the upcoming facelifted ID.3, another “massive” 100% electric model will be produced at the Wolfsburg plant: it will new electric SUV on the basis of the MEB+ platform, which will complement the offer of ID.4 and ID.5, which will contribute to increasing the level of utilization of the plant’s production capacities.

MEB’s modular platform, designed for the Group’s 100% electric vehicles grouped under the Volkswagen ID family, will soon evolve to become SEM+and in particular will increase productivity.

Volkswagen Wolfsburg: 100% electric plant in 2033

The Volkswagen brand also announced that no later than the end of the year 2033 yearfactory in Wolfsburg will produce only 100% electric carsas well as at all other plants of the German group in Europe.

Another important project will also strengthen the activities of the Wolfsburg site: the baptized Trinity, this project will become the basis of the future Automotive platform SSP (Scalable Systems Platform), a scalable platform that will equip future Volkswagen models:

“Wolfsburg is the place of the future. The works council has clear ambitions for the Wolfsburg plant: state-of-the-art production, a highly skilled workforce and an innovative spirit. This means that Wolfsburg will continue to lead the brand and the Group in the coming years with the transition to electric mobility, the launch of an additional all-electric model by 2026, as well as the Trinity and SSP projects. We will determine the detailed schedule together. In this way, we intend to ensure the preservation of employment on the site”– explains Daniela Cavallo, president of the production council.

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