Volkswagen Group says a new manufacturing facility for the Trinity electric model is to be built close to its main plant in Wolfsburg, Germany, with investment totalling some €2 billion. The new factory will manufacture the Trinity electric model.
Construction work in the Warmenau district of Wolfsburg is to begin as early as spring 2023 and will take account of building and environmental law.
The net carbon-neutral Trinity model is set to roll off the assembly line from 2026.
It will offer a much shorter charging time and a range of over 700 kilometers.
Technically it will be ready for autonomous driving, Level 4.
Volkswagen CEO, Ralf Brandstätter, says: “The decision by the Supervisory Board is an important milestone for the transformation of our brand and the future of the Wolfsburg production facility. We are thus strengthening and sustaining the competitiveness of the main plant and giving the workforce a robust long-term perspective. We are setting benchmarks in the automotive industry with Trinity and the new factory and turning Wolfsburg into the global lighthouse for cutting-edge and efficient vehicle production. This reaffirms that the economic transformation of Germany as a center of industry can be achieved.”
Dr. Christian Vollmer, Member of the Board of Management of the Volkswagen brand responsible for Production, comments: “We are focusing on innovative and sustainable manufacturing concepts. Building a new factory in Warmenau also gives us the opportunity to make the existing factory fit for the future, step-by-step and from top to bottom. Trinity stands for a completely new kind of thinking, production, collaboration. It takes courage to shape the future. This is how Wolfsburg will become the yardstick for innovative production concepts – for Volkswagen and the entire industry.”
Lower Saxony’s Minister of Economic Affairs, Dr. Bernd Althusmann, adds: “The Volkswagen Group’s decision on the Trinity site is a further positive signal for the automotive future ‘made in Lower Saxony’. The state-of-the-art production facility will combine all areas of e-mobility: From the new electric platform through to software applications and groundbreaking assistance systems.”
Volkswagen is investing €800 million in the most advanced research and development centre in Europe to drive the future of mobility in the coming years.
There are plans to integrate modern electric vehicle production based on the all-electric SSP platform and modelled on the Trinity facility at the existing main plant by 2030.
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