Volkswagen plans so as to add a second plant close to its headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany, the automaker stated on Tuesday.
Anticipated to be given ultimate approval in December, the plant shall be a state-of-the-art facility with a excessive degree of automation to assist increase effectivity. It’s anticipated to have a capability of round 250,000 automobiles, or about half the capability of the present Wolfsburg plant which right now builds the Golf, Tiguan and Touran fashions, in addition to SEAT’s Tarraco.
The choice to go along with a brand new plant as a substitute of upgrading the present Wolfsburg plant is to keep away from the restrictions of the prevailing construction and permit new, presumably radical manufacturing methods to be launched. VW stated it’s aiming for a 10-hour manufacturing time for a automobile, which is identical goal Tesla has for its new plant below building simply exterior of Berlin. The Tesla plant is anticipated to be operational within the coming months.
VW’s new plant will initially construct the automaker’s much-hyped Project Trinity, an inexpensive, compact electrical automobile due in 2026. The automobile will function a form of technological flagship for VW, with its Mission Trinity code title a reference to the three important tenets the automobile represents: a brand new platform, new manufacturing processes, and self-driving know-how integrating synthetic intelligence.
The idea of the Mission Trinity shall be Volkswagen Group’s extremely modular Scalable Programs Platform, or SSP for brief. First introduced in March, the brand new platform will finally underpin most vehicles across VW Group’s diverse brand portfolio, and standardize not solely constructions but additionally battery cells and software program.
