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Volkswagen starts pre-production e-mobility plant in China

The new plant of the SAIC VOLKSWAGEN joint venture has been completed. It is purely built for the production of all electric vehicles on Volkswagen’s Modular Electric Drive Matrix (MEB).

Celebrating the start of pre-production, a first China-specific all-electric Volkswagen ID. model rolled off the production line. The start of series production of all-electric cars based on the MEB platform in Anting, Shanghai is scheduled for October 2020. “The Volkswagen Group projects a total volume of 22 million all-electric cars worldwide by 2028, with more than 50 percent of that from China. The country plays a crucial part in our electrification strategy, which will pave the way to Volkswagen’s goal of becoming net carbon-neutral by 2050”, says Dr. Herbert Diess, Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG, in a press release. “Together with the start of MEB production, we will launch the Volkswagen ID. family in China as well, a brand-new generation of fully electric and connected vehicles.” “It took only 12 months to see the completion of this innovative factory. Congratulations to our colleagues in Anting, who will further prepare to produce the first China-model of the Volkswagen ID. family here in Shanghai. We will speed up our NEV offensive even more, as we expect further e-mobility market growth,” adds Dr. Stephan Wöllenstein, CEO of Volkswagen Group China. Pre-production begins just a few days after the first global ID. manufacturing started in Zwickau, Germany. Full series production in the new Anting factory is planned to commence in October 2020, with an annual capacity of 300,000 vehicles. The Anting plant is scheduled to start ID. model production at the same time with a plant by FAW-Volkswagen in Foshan, resulting in a combined capacity of 600,000 units per year.

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March 15 2024 2:25 pm V22.4.5-2
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