Thomas Schäfer, CEO of the Volkswagen model: “Our business faces advanced challenges because it undergoes a metamorphosis that’s being carried out underneath troublesome enterprise situations. It’s all the extra essential that we put together our particular person crops and the Volkswagen manufacturing community in Germany for the long run. Throughout the context of our efficiency program, this newly accredited car allocation plan will make a considerable contribution to a robust, aggressive VW model.”
Christian Vollmer, the Volkswagen model Board of Administration member for Manufacturing and a member of the Prolonged Government Committee for Manufacturing, added: “We’re utilizing the transition to electromobility as a chance to scale back the complexity of our manufacturing operations and improve the effectivity of our crops even additional. We’re systematically bundling automobiles based mostly on the identical structure throughout all manufacturers in our crops. By doing so, we are going to save important investments within the integration of various car architectures. Quite, we would like our crops to supply a number of totally different fashions on the technical foundation of 1 car structure.”
Normal Works Council Chairwoman Daniela Cavallo mentioned: “With the selections for our home car manufacturing VW crops, now we have now taken an essential step within the planning spherical. In doing so, even in troublesome instances, the corporate and the Works Council are demonstrating their means to work collectively to seek out strong options that mix the absolute best financial utilization of the factories and clear prospects for our workforces. With that in thoughts, we at the moment are shifting on to the following levels for the planning spherical and the efficiency program.”
Other than the ID.3 – that’s being ramped up in 2023 – the plant in Wolfsburg will produce a second electrical mannequin. Beginning in 2026, giant numbers of an all-electric SUV for the high-volume A section are scheduled to roll off meeting traces. The plant’s sturdy utilization can even be ensured by its manufacturing of the best-selling Golf and the brand new Tiguan era. Beginning in 2025, the successor mannequin of the Tiguan Allspace will likely be produced on the most important plant as nicely. In the course of the plant allocation planning, it was determined that there was no must construct a further plant in Wolfsburg Warmenau. As an alternative, new electrical fashions based mostly on the SSP structure (scalable methods platform), that will likely be launched on the finish of the last decade, will likely be built-in into current and modernized buildings on the most important plant. The high-volume VW icon Golf can also be to be led into the electrical future right here on an SSP foundation. As issues stand at this time, the Trinity car venture initially deliberate for Wolfsburg will go to the Zwickau plant.
The Osnabrück plant can also be scheduled to proceed the partnership with Porsche along with its manufacturing of the combustion automobiles Arteon and T-Roc convertible.
The earlier planning will stay in impact for all different German and worldwide places of the Volkswagen model.
