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Dresden is Germany’s second MEB meeting web site after Zwickau |
Volkswagen’s ‘Clear Manufacturing unit’ in Dresden started sequence manufacturing of the ID.3 in the present day, making it the second German web site for that EV and fourth worldwide producing fashions based mostly on the Modular Electrical Drive Toolkit (MEB).
The previous ‘Centre of Future Mobility’ will steadily remodel into the ‘Residence of the ID’, VW stated.
Dresden was constructed about 20 years in the past to assemble the VW Phaeton and in addition assembled different group luxurious fashions, together with the Bentley Flying Spur, utilizing our bodies and elements shipped from different crops. Physique and paint outlets have since been added.
Thomas Ulbrich, VW’s electrical mobility chief, stated: “At Dresden we’re already changing the fourth Volkswagen web site to the brand new ID. household and the MEB. On the similar time we’re ramping up quantity manufacturing within the Zwickau electrical automotive plant and in our two Chinese language MEB crops each week. In doing so we reaffirm our ambitions to tackle a task as international leaders in electrical mobility.”
Plant chief Danny Auerswald added: “The Clear Manufacturing unit performs an essential position inside the Volkswagen model: Right here, guests, prospects and friends come into direct contact with the mobility of tomorrow. We’re a manufacturing plant, vacationer attraction, occasion location, take a look at lab and supply centre – multi functional. With the beginning of the manufacturing of the ID.31, we’re giving the inexperienced mild for our strategic realignment.”
The Zwickau plant kicked off MEB manufacturing. On the finish of 2020, the Chinese language websites in Anting and Foshan additionally began manufacturing of MEB autos. Collectively, these 4 crops have a most manufacturing capability of greater than 900,000 autos a yr. The following websites in Emden, Hanover and Chattanooga (USA) are additionally getting ready for MEB manufacturing.
ID.3 will begin with one shift and 35 autos from Monday to Friday.
