Volkswagen plans so as to add a second plant close to its headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany, the automaker mentioned on Tuesday.
Anticipated to be given remaining approval in December, the plant will likely be a state-of-the-art facility with a excessive stage of automation to assist increase effectivity. It’s anticipated to have a capability of round 250,000 autos, 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 together with a brand new plant as an alternative of upgrading the present Wolfsburg plant is to keep away from the restrictions of the present construction and permit new, probably radical manufacturing strategies to be launched. VW mentioned it’s aiming for a 10-hour manufacturing time for a automobile, which is identical goal Tesla has for its new plant beneath development simply exterior of Berlin. The Tesla plant is predicted 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 kind of technological flagship for VW, with its Mission Trinity code title a reference to the three principal tenets the automobile represents: a brand new platform, new manufacturing processes, and self-driving expertise integrating synthetic intelligence.
The premise of the Mission Trinity will likely be Volkswagen Group’s extremely modular Scalable Techniques 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 in addition battery cells and software program.
