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Volkswagen will invest $100 million to build a new plant and use a new platform to build a pure electric vehicle product line

The Volkswagen Group is planning to invest $2.1 billion to build a new plant to produce its "ID." Pure electric power model!

Practice the Trinity program

●Mass production will be put into operation in 2026

●With L4 self-driving ability

Volkswagen will invest $100 million to build a new plant and use a new platform to build a pure electric vehicle product line

As the current strategy of the Volkswagen Group, "ID." The pure electric family and the "MEB" modular pure electric platform have successfully completed the lineup of electric production vehicles for the brand, and now the original factory has begun to develop its new electric platform and a series of electric products.

Volkswagen will invest $100 million to build a new plant and use a new platform to build a pure electric vehicle product line

In fact, the original factory announced the "Project Trinity" strategic plan as early as last year, which literally translates to "Trinity", combining the "newly developed pure electric platform", "simplified supply chain" and "intelligent production process" as the basis for the group's future pure electric products.

Volkswagen will invest $100 million to build a new plant and use a new platform to build a pure electric vehicle product line

A year later, the Volkswagen Group also began to take the first step in the Trinity plan, and announced that it would build a new production plant near Wolfsburg, where the brand's home stadium is located. Officials said the total investment will reach 2.1 billion m, and the new plant will be completed in 2023 and put into mass production from 2026.

Volkswagen will invest $100 million to build a new plant and use a new platform to build a pure electric vehicle product line

The first mass-produced four-door sedan will be a streamlined four-door sedan, developed by the new pure electric module platform, and claiming that it will have L4 automatic driving technology, but in product planning, it will not provide too many diversified model options. Beyond that, however, awareness of Trinity's first project is still limited.

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