First and foremost is the new Golf. The successor to the current model will switch entirely to electric propulsion and will be one of the first to evaluate the capabilities of the advanced Scalable Systems Platform – SSP. It is expected that the electric car will appear no earlier than 2028, and it will be preceded by an electric A-segment crossover, but already on the MEB “trolley”. Its launch is scheduled for 2026.
Volkswagen has revealed which models will be launched at its main German factories until 2028. For example, the Wolfsburg site will become “multi-platform” by the end of the decade. There they will produce fuel cars on the MQB “trolley” and MEB-electric cars, as well as cars on the SSP. As part of the Accelerate forward strategy | Road to 6.5, the concern wants to double its own profit in a few years, and for this it just needs to more efficiently utilize the existing capacities.
Therefore, in the fall, assembly of ID.3 hatchbacks will begin in Wolfsburg, in small batches for now, and the new Tiguan. In 2025, the successor to the mid-size Tiguan Allspace will be registered there, and in 2026 – a new electric A-segment crossover. It was decided to abandon the idea of building another plant in Wolfsburg for models on the SSP platform. The architecture will simply be integrated into the existing structure of the parent company, and one of the first cars on it will be the electric Golf.
But the production of the mysterious Trinity, pre-approved for Wolfsburg in 2022, will be moved to Zwickau, although there are still no exact dates. Today, this plant produces electric Volkswagen ID.3, ID.4, ID.5, Audi Q4 e-tron and Sportback e-tron, Cupra Born, and also makes bodies for Bentley and Lamborghini. The format of the electric car itself also raises many questions. But the name Trinity (translated from English as “Trinity”) indicates the three fundamental pillars of the project: a next-generation platform, a new approach to development and an automated control system based on neural networks.
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