Volkswagen adapts its European plants for the electric vehicle
- Several European manufacturers have announced the launch of many electric vehicles in the 2020s, but most of them have not yet specified on which production sites these vehicles would be manufactured.
- Today, the Volkswagen Group says that three of its existing European plants will be transformed to produce electric vehicles. These are the factories of Emden, Hanover and Zwickau, all three located in Germany.
- The Zwickau plant will abandon production of the VW Golf in 2019 to dedicate itself from January 2020 to the production of six electric models of different brands of the group (Volkswagen, Audi, Seat, Skoda). Its production capacity after conversion of the assembly lines will increase from 180,000 to 330,000 units per year. The production of the VW Golf will be transferred to Wolfsburg where most of the Golfs are already produced.
- The Emden plant, where the VW Passat is currently produced, will manufacture electric vehicles from 2022. This new organization of the site will cause the transfer of the future Passat to the Skoda site of Kvasiny, alongside the Skoda Superb and Kodiaq. Seat Ateca and Skoda Karoq will be transferred to another factory of the Volkswagen Group.
- The Hanover factory, where the Transporter and Kombi are currently produced, will manufacture electric vehicles as of 2022. This plant will also continue to manufacture models with thermal engines for about ten years.
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