The Volkswagen Group will introduce a single platform for many electrical autos throughout its manufacturers sooner or later, with the brand new structure being developed by Volkswagen‘s Challenge Trinity finally changing the present MEB and PPE platforms.
- New Scalable Methods Platform (SSP) to be primarily based on present EV platforms
- EV platforms enable for better scalability than these for standard powertrains
- Anticipated to create even better economies of scale
Audi to first use new Scalable Methods Platform in 2024
The brand new Scalable Methods Platform (SSP) is at present being developed inside Volkswagen, and is about for use for the primary time as a part of the primary automobile developed by Audi’s Challenge Artemis in 2024 or 2025. The {hardware} for the SSP platform relies closely on the present MEB and PPE architectures, that are used for quantity and premium EVs respectively.
When requested about SSP by our sister publication Autocar UK throughout the VW Group’s annual outcomes presentation group boss Herbert Diess stated: “The SSP platform will substitute the present platforms over an extended time frame. The beginning-up will start with Artemis in 2024/2025. We’re taking what we’ve obtained with the MEB, and we’ll have value enchancment and standardisation of the battery, which fits hand-in-hand with a brand new digital structure offering extra computing energy to the autos. The SSP will finally be the only spine for the Group, we’re speaking past 2035 right here.”
SSP to assist create better economies of scale
The transfer is a part of step by the VW Group to introduce largely standardised technical foundations throughout its manufacturers sooner or later, by elevated use of standardised platforms, software program, batteries and mobility providers. The German large, whose manufacturers embody Audi, Bentley, Porsche, Seat/Cupra, Skoda and Volkswagen, already operates intensive platform sharing however will considerably enhance that method sooner or later to extend its share of the electrical automobile market.
Diess stated SSP, which can largely be in-built standardised kind with choices subsequently purchased and activated on-line, will finally substitute each MEB and PPE. That course of will probably take till the center of the subsequent decade.
He added: “What number of platforms does a bunch want? We imagine the differentiation of platforms on account of many alternative drivetrain ideas is now not related as a result of all the brand new platforms have a battery skateboard. That provides us main scalability, as a result of they’ll simply settle for totally different battery sizes and so forth. This method makes excellent sense and is going to be one of many principal levers to leverage the most important scalability throughout the group.”
“Volkswagen’s platforms are an vital constructing block of the Volkswagen success story, and we’re taking the platform method to a brand new stage,” stated Diess. “By offering sturdy unified platforms our manufacturers can unleash their full potential and synergies. Our MEB platform serves as a proof of idea. It has taken mobility into our core enterprise.”
Diess added that the elevated use of platform sharing may allow better economies of scale, that are “completely vital” for creating electrical and digital know-how. The corporate has already launched the MEB electrical platform, which can be used for 27 EVs by the tip of subsequent yr, together with the Volkswagen ID 3 and the India-bound ID 4, the Cupra Born, Skoda Enyaq and Audi This autumn e-tron. The primary automobile on the Audi and Porsche-developed PPE platform, probably an EV model of the Porsche Macan, can be launched in worldwide markets subsequent yr.
For software program, the VW Group has invested closely in its Automobile.Software program division, and is creating a subsequent technology VW.OS working system that can be used throughout all manufacturers within the coming years. The system is because of be launched for the primary time on the primary manufacturing automobile being developed by Audi’s Challenge Artemis in 2024.
Diess stated that the intention is for VW’s software program division to grow to be Europe’s second largest software program firm. He added: “There is just one software program area the place Europe nonetheless has an opportunity to play a number one function – that’s the subsequent technology of automotive software program. We wish to cleared the path in that.”
Throughout its latest Energy Day occasion, VW confirmed that it will swap 80 per cent of its EVs to a unified cell system, which it says will dramatically cut back prices. The cell can be designed in order that totally different supplies can be utilized inside, relying on the efficiency wants of every mannequin.
The Group can be investing in mobility options comparable to automobile sharing providers, by its MOIA experience sharing agency and WeShare automobile sharing firm.
Volkswagen Group in India
The Skoda Auto Volkswagen India (SAVWIPL), which represents the passenger automobile subsidiaries of the Volkswagen Group in India, is at present engaged on bringing two new SUVs and two new sedans primarily based on the localised MQB AO IN platform – the Skoda Kushaq SUV is about to make its worldwide debut later in the present day, the Volkswagen Taigun SUV is slated to reach within the coming months, and replacements for the Vento and Speedy sedans may also arrive earlier than the yr is out.
Audi India can be launching its S5 Sportback facelift on March 22, whereas Porsche launched the Panamera facelift simply final month.
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