VW kicks off production of its all-electric SUV, the ID. 4
2 factories in China will start production of the ID.4 this year, according to Thomas Ulbrich, a VW Group board member responsible for e-mobility. The business’s factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee will begin ID.4 production in 2022.
Series production of the ID.4 started Thursday at the business’s Zwickau factory in Germany ahead of the lorry’s opening night that is set up for September. The ID.4 follows the ID.3, the very first design in Volkswagen’s all-electric ID brand name and the beginning of the automaker’s enthusiastic plan to offer 1 million EVs every year by 2025. A production variation of the ID.3 was unveiled in September 2019. Deliveries for the ID.3 will start in September.
Unlike the ID.3, this SUV will be produced and offered in China, Europe and the U.S. Production is beginning at the Zwickau factory, which VW has invested some EUR1.2 billion ($1.4 billion) in to convert it to a center that will only produce electric automobiles. By next year, the Zwickau plant will be producing 300,000 electrical vehicles annually.
Volkswagen has actually started series production of the ID.4, an all-electric SUV and the very first under the car manufacturer’s new ID label to be headed to the United States.
The ID.4 is also the 2nd electric lorry to use the German automaker’s MEB platform, a flexible modular system– actually a matrix of common parts– for producing electrical cars that VW states make it more affordable and effective. The ID.3, an electric hatchback that will only be offered in Europe, is the very first vehicle to be based upon the MEB platform.