Volkswagen plans to build new assembly plant in Wolfsburg
- The German carmaker Volkswagen plans to build a new assembly plant in Wolfsburg, near the brand's historic factory, which will be dedicated to the production of all-electric vehicles. Eventually, the construction of an additional factory was preferred to the extension of the historic Wolfsburg factory which, according to the management of the carmaker, would have been more expensive.
- This plant construction will not only be the first by a major carmaker in the Western side of Europe in twenty years, but it will also be an obvious response to the construction of the Tesla factory in Germany, near Berlin, which is expected to start in 2022. The Volkswagen plant to be built in Wolfsburg will house battery electric Trinity sedan from 2026 at the announced rate of 150,000 units per year by 2030. This production capacity is equivalent to that announced by Tesla for its Berlin plant, at least during its first phase.
- The carmaker had already communicated last summer on the fact that it planned to produce 700,000 electric vehicles in Germany in 2030, including 200,000 units at the Zwickau site, 200,000 units at the Emden site, 150,000 units at the Wolfsburg site, 100,000 units at the Hanover site and 50,000 units at the Dresden site.
- The announcement of the construction of a new plant in Wolfsburg therefore only confirms the production of 150,000 electric cars in Wolfsburg in 2030.
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