Volkswagen Group creates electric unit

10 January 2018

"Electric mobility" the Volkswagen unit will be headed by a veteran of the company Thomas Ulbrich

The Volkswagen brand is seriously determined to capture the leading place in the in the upcoming mass market electric cars to today announced the creation of special production units "electric mobility" (e-mobility division). New "electrodepostion" heading, a company veteran Thomas Ulbrich that goes on this position the post of head of the production Department of the Volkswagen brand.

Electric range (I. D.), which should bring the VW brand in the leaders of the "electroperu" will include five basic models. the First two will go on sale 2020: on European market it will be a hatchback I. D., and, at the same price of the current diesel Golf VII (A7). Another model will be a crossover I. D. Crozz, which will be offered on the US market
as the model 2021.

Today the VW Group is developing an electric platform for MEB mass of electric vehicles for all its brands, including VW, Audi, Seat and Skoda. In 2020, the start-up production line I. D. only the VW brand will be about 100 000 units with a yield of at least 1 million to 2025
as the head of VW Herbert dies 18 November.

According to the plan "a Road map E" – VW Group plans to sell to 2025 at least 1.5 million battery electric vehicles for all its brands.

Thomas Ulbrich, who began his career in the VW Group in 1989, will take up his new position.
with 1 Feb. In 2014 he became head of production and logistics VW brand after the previous posts, including positions in the Chinese-German JV FAW-Volkswagen (head of logistics) and Shahghai-Volkswagen (technical Director). To inherit Ulbrich on his current position is Andreas Tostmann, the former head of production of the Spanish unit Seat.