Volkswagen is one year ahead of schedule with the electrification of its vehicle fleet. Since delivery to the first ID 3 customer in October 2020, Volkswagen has been able to deliver 500,000 cars of the ID family worldwide. Volkswagen’s order book is currently still high: “We are doing everything possible to deliver the approximately 135,000 IDs that have been ordered to our customers as quickly as possible. However, the still tense supply situation for the parts repeatedly leads to production adjustments,” explains Imelda Labbé, Board Member for Sales, Marketing and Aftersales at Volkswagen.
From 2033, Volkswagen intends to produce only electric cars in Europe. By 2030, at least 70 percent of Volkswagen sales in Europe are expected to consist of purely electric cars. In the US and China, the company is aiming for a share of more than 50% over the same period. To this end, Volkswagen will launch ten new electric models by 2026. “Volkswagen thus offers the widest range of electric models of any manufacturer: from the entry-level electric car with a target price of under 25,000 euros to the new flagship Aero B , we will have the right range in each segment,” explained Labbé.
Volkswagen sees the ID family as a pioneer in the field of software integration. Volkswagen continuously provides updates “over the air” to ID vehicle owners. In this way, the car remains up to date throughout its life cycle and is constantly being improved with new functions. “We have had very good experiences with this in recent months,” says Labbé, “because the advantage is that we can transfer customer feedback directly and at short notice to new functions such as increasing the charging capacity or displaying the capacity of the battery in the driver display”.
The Modular Electric Drive Kit (MEB) is critical to accelerating the company’s global electric offensive. The vehicle architecture from Volkswagen, which was specially developed for electric drive, offers long distances and lots of interior space. The MEB is the technical basis for the fully electric and fully connected cars of the ID. Family. By focusing on purely electric drive and usability for different vehicle classes across the entire Volkswagen Group, the MEB enables economies of scale and thus reduces the costs of electric mobility. (awm)