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Sometime in 2019, the Volkswagen facility in Zwickau is scheduled to commence production of electric vehicles based on the MEB platform. But with the huge number of electric models planned by Volkswagen in the coming years, that plant alone is not nearly enough.
After on Tuesday the Germans announced the full roster of battery suppliers for its electric cars - LG Chem, Samsung in Europe, SKI in the U.S. and CATL in China – on Wednesday they made public the addition of two more facilities to the EV production efforts.
As per Volkswagen, these facilities are the ones it operates in Emden and Hanover in Germany. Production of the cars currently being manufactured at these locations – Passat and Transporter – will be moved to other plants operated by the group, which will be announced by the end of the week.
The conversion of the two plants to accommodate EV assembly lines is scheduled to be complete by 2022.
“We are moving at full speed into the production of electric vehicles. Emden and Hanover are to be further model plants in Germany,” said in a statement Gunnar Kilian, VW member of the board.
“Together with Zwickau, they will form the largest network for the production of electric vehicles in Europe.”
As a result of the decision, an employment guarantee up to the year 2028 was agreed, but only for full-time employees. The ones working with temporary contracts will be offered permanent employment, should they choose them, at the Porsche plants in Zuffenhausen, Ludwigsburg, and Sachsenheim or at the Volkswagen plant in Kassel.
The rapidity with which Volkswagen is reshuffling its production process is dictated by the promise to have, as a group, 50 new and fully electrified models on the roads by 2025.
All will be based on the Modular Electrification Toolkit platform, or MEB, with the first of the bunch expected to hit the roads in 2019.
As per Volkswagen, these facilities are the ones it operates in Emden and Hanover in Germany. Production of the cars currently being manufactured at these locations – Passat and Transporter – will be moved to other plants operated by the group, which will be announced by the end of the week.
The conversion of the two plants to accommodate EV assembly lines is scheduled to be complete by 2022.
“We are moving at full speed into the production of electric vehicles. Emden and Hanover are to be further model plants in Germany,” said in a statement Gunnar Kilian, VW member of the board.
“Together with Zwickau, they will form the largest network for the production of electric vehicles in Europe.”
As a result of the decision, an employment guarantee up to the year 2028 was agreed, but only for full-time employees. The ones working with temporary contracts will be offered permanent employment, should they choose them, at the Porsche plants in Zuffenhausen, Ludwigsburg, and Sachsenheim or at the Volkswagen plant in Kassel.
The rapidity with which Volkswagen is reshuffling its production process is dictated by the promise to have, as a group, 50 new and fully electrified models on the roads by 2025.
All will be based on the Modular Electrification Toolkit platform, or MEB, with the first of the bunch expected to hit the roads in 2019.
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