Volkswagen’s Trinity project, which is to result in a large electric sedan, will include a new factory in Wolfsburg, the company’s hometown. More precisely, in its part Warmenau, which borders the present-day Volkswagen factory in the north. The carmaker stated that the investment in the production of this electric car will amount to 2 billion euros (51.5 billion crowns).
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The plant is to help Volkswagen reduce Tesla’s technological lead, writes Automotive News. On Friday, March 4, the American carmaker Tesla received permission to start production at its new factory in Grünheide near Berlin.
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Construction of the factory is scheduled to begin in the spring of 2023, with the first cars set to roll off production lines three years later. The first model is to be a sedan or liftback the size of today’s passat, to be targeted at the mass market and to have a range of over 700 km on a single charge.
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Technically, it is to be ready for autonomous level 4 driving and is also to be the first car on the SSP’s “super-platform” to later replace the combustion and electric platforms not only of Volkswagen, but also of Skoda, Audi, Satt and Porsche.
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It should be possible to produce one car in 10 hours in the new factory – about the same time it takes Tesla to produce one car in a new Brandenburg factory. According to an earlier statement by Volkswagen brand boss Ralf Brandstätter, this means 250,000 cars a year. According to Volkswagen, the key to faster production is “fewer variants, fewer components, more automation, leaner product lines and new logistics concepts”.
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“We focus on innovative and sustainable production concepts. The construction of a new factory in Warmenau also gives us the opportunity to adapt the current factory to the future. Trinity means a whole new kind of thinking, production and collaboration, ”said Christian Vollmer, Volkswagen’s member of the production board.
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