Recently, the online car market learned from the channel that Volkswagen is doubling down on investment in electric vehicle research and development, and the electric vehicle research and development process has been redesigned, focusing on software development, customer needs and Volkswagen's future SSP electric vehicle platform, which will significantly shorten its product research and development cycle, and the plan to stop selling fuel vehicles in the United States before 2030 is expected to be advanced. At the same time, Volkswagen also said that it will gradually launch 25 new electric models in the United States by 2030.
It is reported that in the future, the research and development of Volkswagen's new car will take the software and functions of the vehicle as the key to research and development, rather than hardware, so that the technology research and development is more efficient and interconnected, so that the research and development cycle of the new car will be shortened from 54 months to 40 months, in addition, the new car production process will also undergo major changes, and the production time target of each new car is only about 10 hours.
Volkswagen will use a new SSP platform to build electric vehicles in the future, and Volkswagen will integrate the advantages of the existing platform into the SSP platform, greatly reducing the complexity of car manufacturing, and by 2030, Volkswagen plans to produce more than 40 million electric vehicles on this platform. In addition, in addition to producing new cars, Volkswagen said its Chattanooga Battery Engineering Laboratory in Tennessee will begin operations in May to test the batteries of all of Volkswagen's upcoming electric vehicles in the U.S. market.