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VW is planning a capacity of 100,000 electric cars per year for first plant to go electric
Fred Lambert

- Sep. 10th 2018
https://electrek.co/2018/09/10/vw-electric-cars-production-capacity-first-plant-go-electric/

Volkswagen E-mobility board member Thomas Ulbrich confirmed the news last week.

He said that pre-production of VW’s I.D. electric vehicle will start at its Zwickau plant and they aim to have a production capacity fo 100,000 electric cars by 2020.

Over the next few years, they want the plant to go all-electric.

He emphasized that Zwickau is only the beginning:

“Zwickau is, if you like, only the tip of the iceberg. Our mission is nothing less than the transformation of the Group-wide production network towards e-mobility. We speak about 16 locations worldwide – and that’s within just three years, “

(In 2017, Volkswagen produced around 11 million passenger and commercial vehicles globally. The world's second largest motor vehicle manufacturer operates 52 locations for components and 68 passenger car production locations.)

We often joke about VW being the king of EV press releases, but I see this as a significant positive move for electrifying the fleet.

With that and Volkswagen’s important battery contracts, which they recently doubled to a $48 billion value, it would be stupid not to take the German automaker’s electrification effort seriously.