The Volkswagen plant in Kassel in the age of the electric vehicle
- The Kassel plant (Land of Hesse, Germany) has been manufacturing internal combustion engines for Volkswagen for several decades. Due to the new direction taken by manufacturers following the various decisions of European governance to reduce CO2 emissions, this plant has been transformed to gradually produce electric motors. It was in 2015 that the transition began on the site with the manufacture of the electric motor for the Volkswagen e-Up, Skoda Citigo and Seat Mii. Then the plant gradually ramped up, with the launch of the Volkswagen ID3 and ID4 in 2020, then the ID5 and ID Buzz in 2022.
- From 105,000 units in 2020, the production volume of electric motors increased to 230,000 in 2021 and it will probably reach 250,000 units in 2022, 350,000 in 2023, 450,000 in 2024 and 550,000 in 2025. he Cassel plant could produce 900,000 electric motors per year, mainly for BEVs.
- The manufacturer's objective is to make Kassel one of the group's two factories dedicated to the manufacture of electric motors by 2030-2035, Volkswagen also plans to manufacture components for the next SSP technology platform there.
- A second factory, that of Gyor (Hungary), currently manufactures electric motors for the top of the range of the group, namely Audi and Porsche. The production volume of electric motors in this plant has increased from 70,000 units in 2020 to 130,000 in 2021 and will probably reach 150,000 units in 2022. Eventually, the production volume of this plant could reach 300,000 units per year.
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