VW electric car ID.3
The Tesla competitor of Volkswagen will be delivered from summer 2020.
DusseldorfVolkswagen is the largest automaker in the world, nearly eleven million vehicles ran off the belts last year. In view of such quantities worthwhile technical developments in Wolfsburg, which have to think twice smaller automakers twice. This is also true for entry into electric mobility,
The VWGroup has chosen to put the new generation of its battery-powered vehicles on its own platform, the so-called “modular electrification kit” (MEB). CEO Herbert dies announced in March that 22 million electric cars will be built on its own production platform over the next ten years, another seven million more than previously planned. By 2028 there are almost 70 new electric models on the plan, before that was 50 of the speech. By 2023, Volkswagen will take more than 30 billion euros to make the switch to the electric car.
The two southern German competitors Daimler and BMW pursue a slightly different strategy when it comes to getting into electromobility. They use unlike VW uniform platforms on which cars with different types of drives can be made, so with combustion or electric drive and combined as a hybrid.
These different technical approaches lead also to different model programs, At Volkswagen will be the purely battery-powered vehicles dominate, The battery cells lie on the specially prepared floor of the MEB electric cars. In contrast to the petrol models sold today, the electric motor drives the rear axle; the front-wheel drive will clearly lose importance in the coming years at Volkswagen.
at Daimler and BMW The changes will not go that far, as both manufacturers are much closer to the basic pattern of today’s platforms. This also means that the two southern German premium brands are planning less purely battery-powered models. In Stuttgart and Munich, the hybrids get a much greater importance.
Volkswagen stands by the course it has taken. The future emission limits within the EU are forcing automakers to massively expand their electromobility. “If we want to meet the environmental requirements and avoid penalties, there will be no alternative to the electric car in the next few years”, stressed VW boss Diess recently, By 2030, European car manufacturers will have to roughly halve the average carbon dioxide emissions of their vehicle fleets. If this does not succeed, fines amounting to billions of euros are threatened.
This is aware that the comprehensive introduction to electromobility is associated with risks. “We expect an extreme conversion program,” he said at the accounts press conference in March. However, Volkswagen has good chances to achieve the set goals. In view of the great challenges, VW also had to calculate with failures. “One or the other will not succeed,” Diess continues.
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Volkswagen is now making rapid progress in setting up electrical production. Last year, just over 25,000 pure electric vehicles were sold throughout the Group. This year, there will be more than 100,000 vehicles – for example, the fact that the group subsidiaries Audi and Porsche launch their first e-models on the market.
Next year, a number of new e-factories in the Group will be ready to go: In 2020, Volkswagen is planning more than 500,000 purely battery-powered cars worldwide. The focus of production is then in Germany and in China.
In addition, Volkswagen is also considering outsourcing the MEB platform to outside competitors and, if possible, even establishing it as a standard for the entire industry. In March, the VW Group had a corresponding agreement met with the small Aachen E-car manufacturer Ego, The first major customer could ford his. The US group is negotiating with VW to take over the MEB kit for its vehicle production in Europe and China.
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