Several carmakers have given themselves a target for launching and selling a certain number of electrified models over the next decade. Volkswagen is one of them. It aims to launch over 20 pure-electric models in the next few years and by 2025, it wants to sell a minimum of 1 million electric cars globally every year. In order to achieve those targets, the Wolfsburg-based brand has been busy setting up new facilities and upgrading some of the existing ones to produce electric vehicles (EVs).

Volkswagen has now announced that by 2022 it will have eight facilities, spread across three continents, which will be capable of producing EVs based on MEB (Modular Electric Drive Toolkit) platform. The latest to join that list of plants is the one in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Volkswagen will invest 680 million euros in that facility to make it MEB-ready. Once done, the plant will create about 1,000 new jobs and several more for the suppliers. The first electric car that will roll off the aforementioned plant will be ID. CROZZ SUV and that will happen in the year 2022. It will later be joined by the ID BUZZ, the reincarnated and modern version of the iconic VW bus. The Chattanooga plant will also continue to produce the Atlas and Passat models.

Apart from that sole facility in the USA, Volkswagen will be producing its EVs in four plants in Germany, one of each located in Emden, Hanover, Zwickau and Dresden. The only other plant in Europe capable of making MEB-based EVs will be the one in Mlada Boleslav, Czech Republic. The remaining two plants will be in China – in the cities of Anting and Foshan. Both the Chinese plants are scheduled to commence operations in 2020. Out of the lot, it will be the German plant in Zwickau which will roll out the first pure-electric VW – the compact ID. The production of that model is slated to start at the end of 2019.

To make all of the above possible, the Volkswagen brand will inject a total of 11 billion euros by 2023. Out of that, 9 billion euros have been parked for e-mobility only. It is safe to say that VW has its plans in place to launch its electric offensive on a global scale.

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Rachit Shad Trehan
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