After a little more than half a decade on the sustainable mobility front, the Volkswagen e-Golf is heading into retirement. Production of the fully electric compact just ended, with the final vehicle rolling out from the assembly line of the Transparent Factory in Dresden, Germany.
The location had been taking care of the e-Golf manufacturing process since March of 2017 – and has managed to build a total of 50,401 examples in the meantime. The group-wide “E-offensive” is not slowing down, though; starting early next year, the plant will be retooled and after just three weeks of downtime, it will start producing the ID.3 series from late January.
According to Volkswagen, the final e-Golf to roll off the production line was a “Uranogrey” unit. The company is quickly switching its focus to the future production of the ID.3, with the Dresden plant following the Zwickau facility in adapting to MEB requirements.
“The end of the e-Golf is also the start of the final preparations for the ID.3. In just a few weeks, we will be opening the next chapter for the Transparent Factory. After Zwickau, we are the second location in Europe to manufacture vehicles based on the new modular e-drive system,” explains Danny Auerswald, head of plant of the Transparent Factory.
In total, 145,561 VW e-Golf units were produced between the Wolfsburg and Dresden plants, with the electric compact being popular especially in Norway and Germany. The Transparent Factory Dresden, on the other hand, has also covered the build for some interesting ICE models since it started operations back in 2001 – such as the flagship Phaeton or Bentley’s Flying Spur.
Now it’s fully embracing the EV future with the introduction of the ID.3, Volkswagen’s first vehicle based on the dedicated Modular Electric Drive Kit (MEB) platform.
The company says it has already delivered more than 28k units of the ID.3 since its market launch back in September. VW is now preparing for the arrival of the model's entry-level version, set to go on sale below the €30,000 (less than $37k) mark from early next year.
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