VW ID.3 – countdown to the start of production at the factory in Zwickau

31 October 2019

Before the launch of the first in Europe specialized factory of electric vehicles 4 days left

The Volkswagen Group has included a countdown of the launch of series production of electric ID.3, is scheduled for November 4 (10:00-11:20 GMT. The official ceremony of the gathering of the Assembly line in Zwickau the first serial electric vehicle ID.3 visit of Federal Chancellor Dr Angela Merkel and CEO of the Volkswagen group Dr. Herbert Diess. Chancellor in addition to the official ceremony will also visit the production line. A live webcast will be available online on hestego: # eMobility, # VWID3 # VolkswagenLive.

Premiere VW ID.3 at the IAA'19 in Frankfurt in September

Model Volkswagen ID.3 in his debut performance 1st will be the first line of the original (not converted – ed.) battery electric vehicles in the global offensive Volkswagen in the field of electromobility. In addition, Volkswagen will become the first world producer, which is fully converted largest automobile plant with the production of conventional vehicles with internal combustion engines (ICE) to electric vehicles (BEV).

The historic events in the global car industry 4 days left 

Phased conversion of the plant which produces the VW Golf Variant station wagons, and bodies for the Bentley Bentayga and the Lamborghini Urus, began in 2018 and will be fully completed in 2021 (net capex VW will amount to €1.2 billion) that will turn Zwickau in the largest and most efficient plant for the production of electric vehicles in Europe c an annual capacity of 330 thousand i.e. 1,500 vehicles per day.

Production in Zwickau completely retooled,

and the workers completely retrain for high volume production of electric vehicles

To do this, in Zwickau, among other things, purchased 1500 new products and expanded production capacity. In addition, currently trained nearly 8,000 staff to enable them to meet the requirements of electromobility.
Over the next five years the Volkswagen Group will invest €44 billion in e-mobility, Autonomous driving and digital technology.

Plant VW Zwickau in Saxony 

Yet, until the summer of 2020 for the second leg of the conveyor is maintained in Zwickau Assembly wagon Golf VII, and then the line will also be upgraded under the release line ID electric vehicles, BEV and two brands – Audi and Seat (already rather Cupra – ed.). In addition, the Volkswagen Group will launch another two factories for the production of electric vehicles ID.3 – in USA and Chinese SAIC-Volkswagen.

In Frankfurt am main ID.3 was presented in an exclusive version 1^st, which will be produced in quantities of only 30 thousand.

  Vice President of Volkswagen Group, is responsible for the direction of electric cars, Thomas Ulbrich says: "With the start of production ID.3 in November at the factory  Zwickau

Volkswagenвступает a new era, comparable only with the launch of the first Beetle (VW Type 11 – ed.) or Golf first. We are moving in full accordance with our roadmap to transform the company. So, the first 400 experienced EVS ID.3 have already passed ispytatelnyi tracks throughout Europe. ID.3 plant in Zwickau is a real pioneer in the field of electromobility".

PS We are the East German city of Zwickau is known primarily for the production of the plant "Sachsenring" plastic cars of small Trabant, which has become an iconic symbol of the former German Democratic Republic.

Compiling the latest "Trabant" factory "Sachsenring" in Zwickau

Given that the very Ms. Chancellor was born in East Germany, the launch of the newest electric production in the "new Federal States" deeply for her symbolic and shows the passed 30 years after the reunification of German lands way, also the development of the German automotive industry for 115 years (car manufacturing in Saxony began here in 1904). By the way, the automaker tried to modernized the plant was so to speak "CO₂ – neutral", what 50% required electricity is purchased from wind farms, and the other half get their CHP on natural gas – obviously Russian)).
 
P. P. S. the VW Plant in Zwickau will remain "king of the hill" European electromobility not for long – soon it will replace the first plant of the Tesla Gigafactory Europe, the so-called the Gigafactory 4 4, which will be built, most likely, also in Germany, although the acute competition between EU countries (from Portugal to Estonia and Finland) for the right to host the enterprise (uniting themselves as an Assembly of electric vehicles and their batteries) in their territory continues. Almost faster arrive and battery startups such as Swedish and German Northvolt TerraE. The issue of producing sufficient quantities of battery cells for Europe, today it represents an even greater headache than the release of electric vehicles themselves, because today, 88% of lithium production is concentrated in Asia (particularly in China), and 67% production of cobalt in DR Congo, where even massively uses child bonded labour ("Hello" of colonial 19th-century high-tech 21 St century)..