The long-awaited VW ID. Buzz has celebrated its premiere. Volkswagen praises the “first purely electric bus and van series in Europe” in the highest terms. With the premiere, further data on the electric bus has been announced.
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Volkswagen has announced that it is realigning the focus and working methods of Technical Development (TD) to shift towards electromobility and digitalisation. According to Chief Development Officer Thomas Ulbrich, this will also have a massive impact on future electric cars such as the Trinity.
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Following VW and Skoda, Audi is also bringing several updates to its MEB model Q4 e-tron. In addition to the well-known shorter charging time for the variants with a large battery, Audi is bringing a number of new equipment scopes to the MEB SUV.
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Volkswagen has given the go-ahead for VW’s new Trinity factory and chose the Warmenau district of Wolfsburg near the current plant site.
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine has a devastating impact on the local population and is also affecting global supply chains. Missing parts are bringing assembly lines in Germany, the UK and the Czech Republic to a standstill.
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Skoda has announced a software update for its MEB models in the Enyaq family. Called ME3, it includes improvements in range and charging performance, just like the underlying E3.0 update at VW. But it also adjusts some of the criticized displays.
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Volkswagen has decided on the location for the Volkswagen Group’s battery cell factory in Spain: it is to be built in Sagunt in the province of Valencia in eastern Spain and will have a capacity of 40 GWh per year.
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Volkswagen has stopped taking orders for certain versions of its ID.3 electric car in the UK, in order to shorten lead times amid the semiconductor supply shortage. The only model currently available to order in the UK is the ID.3 Pro Performance Life, starting at £35,835.
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Volkswagen has decided on a new direction for its upcoming electric small car ID. Life. The concept presented at the IAA in 2021 has fallen out of favour in Wolfsburg already.
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Shortly before the world premiere on 9 March, VW Commercial Vehicles has officially announced key data on the series version of the ID. Buzz for the first time – both the drive and the body. So far, there is still no confirmed information on the price and exact market launch.
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Skoda has started producing the Enyaq Coupé iV ins series at its main plant in Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic. The facility churns out more than 120 units of the Coupé a day, alongside the Enyaq iV, Octavia and its PHEV offshoot Octavia iV model series.
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The electric Volkswagen ID. Buzz will make its North American debut at ‘South by Southwest’ in Austin, Texas, between March 11 and 20. The vehicle on display will be the European model, which will have been revealed online on March 9.
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Volkswagen wants to launch its ID. Buzz in September at an entry-level price of just under 60,000 euros, according to a media report. After the presentation of the model on 9 March, orders for the MEB van will apparently be accepted from May onwards.
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Magna has started serial production of the electric drive system for the VW ID.4 in China. Specifically, it is the drive unit with 80 kW peak power for the front axle of the all-wheel-drive version ID.4 GTX.
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Skoda presented the Enyaq Coupé in Prague. With this vehicle, the Czech VW subsidiary expands its electric range, albeit with familiar technology on a familiar basis. Thanks to the aerodynamic body, some performance data have changed.
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VW has now officially started production of the ID.5 and ID.5 GTX in Zwickau and has thus completed the transformation of the vehicle plant into a pure electric car plant, as announced last November. The 2022 production will exceed the 180,000 electric cars VW made here last year.
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VW is significantly expanding its production capacities for electric cars in China. Together with the third MEB plant in Anhui, the annual production capacity will increase to up to 900,000 units in 2023, as VW China now reveals.
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In China, around 3.3 million New Energy Vehicles, meaning battery-electric cars and plug-in hybrids, were sold last year. December was also a new record month with 505,000 NEV cars.
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Soon, all electric models in VW’s ID. series will roll off the production line with a new software version that will bring advantages when charging. Most of the updates will be applied “over the air” to vehicles that have already been delivered.
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As part of its new round of planning, Volkswagen has also confirmed an all-electric leisure vehicle that will be produced by the commercial vehicle division in Hanover in the future: The ID. California will be an electric camper based on the VW ID. Buzz.
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Volkswagen has decided to further electrify its European locations as part of its new planning round. 89 billion euros will be invested in future technologies such as electromobility and digitalisation alone over the next five years.
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The VW plant in Osnabrück has a chance of producing an electric convertible, as Group CEO Herbert Diess has now announced. According to Diess, not only the Volkswagen brand but also Audi is considering the possibility.
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According to a media report, Audi wants to build its Q4 e-tron electric SUV, which is produced in Zwickau, in Brussels from November 2022 due to high demand. The final decision will be made at the VW planning meeting on 9 December.
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VW has started the pre-sale of the ID.5. The coupé version of the VW ID.4, which was presented earlier this month, is available in Germany from a starting price of 46,515 euros. However, it is currently difficult to make a statement on the price after subsidy deduction. In addition, the ID.5 GTX gets an even […]
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Audi presented the production version of the all-electric Q5 e-tron for the Chinese market at the Guangzhou Auto Show. The electric SUV is based on the MEB and is built by the SAIC Volkswagen joint venture.
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Volkswagen may build a completely new factory in Wolfsburg for its next generation of electric cars (project ‘Trinity’). The source for this is none other than VW brand manager Ralf Brandstätter. A decision is to be made in December.
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The conversion of the Emden site into Lower Saxony’s first plant for electric cars is on the home straight, according to VW. The first pre-series vehicles of the ID.4 are already being produced in the body shop, the paint shop and soon in assembly. Volume production is scheduled to start in spring 2022.
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According to media reports, the VW works council has issued a vote of no confidence in Herbert Diess. A mediation committee has now been set up in the supervisory board. The dispute is about possible massive job cuts – but also about the role of the individual plants in the transition to electric mobility.
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Volkswagen has presented the coupé version of its ID.4 electric SUV. The ID.5 comes with rear and all-wheel drive, but exclusively with the large 77 kWh battery. Thanks to the more aerodynamic roof design, the range has increased somewhat.
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The contract to build the Artemis models of Audi, Porsche and Bentley at VW Commercial Vehicles’ Hanover plant was considered a great success for the future of the plant. But now, according to a report in German media, two of the three brands want changes.
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