Volkswagen is planning to construct a new manufacturing plant alongside its existing facility in Wolfsburg, Germany near its headquarters, and this new plant is to produce the Trinity sedan when it is launched in 2026.
Announced as Project Trinity in March this year, the upcoming fastback sedan has been so-named for the three crucial components of the vehicle project; a new electronics platform and software, a simplified supply structure and a fully-networked intelligent production process at the manufacturing facility.
Volkswagen indicated that it would be cheaper to build the new factory than to repurpose the existing location to produce electric vehicles, and aimed to have a production time of 10 hours per vehicle, or similar to the time taken for a Tesla Model 3 to be assembled at its plant in Grünheide, Germany, Reuters noted.
In addition to cost, the construction of an all-new production plant means that the possibilities for radical changes to the manufacturing process, if desired, would not be limited by the constraints of the older Wolfsburg facility. This is why Volkswagen is planning for more efficient greenfield construction, said Volkswagen brand CEO Ralf Brandstätter in a statement.
“That way, we are gaining time and space to gradually modernise the main factory in a far-reaching way and raise production there too, to a new level,” he added.
Volkswagen’s new site is expected to have an annual production capacity of 250,000 cars, in addition to the manufacturer’s existing Wolfsburg plant with an annual capacity of 500,000 cars. “We are in talks with the works council, but the economic conditions have to be created,” Brandstätter said.
No cost estimates have been revealed for the new, second plant; the planned site has been endorsed by the Volkswagen works council but has yet to gain approval from the automaker’s supervisory board, according to Autocar.
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The only reason why VW setup another plant in Wolfsburg is to reap the Gomen subsidy but continue to producing crap quality cars. If VW Group Directors were thinking what is best for buyers, they would have setup in Pekan under the auspice of DRB-Hicom. Even their CEO grudgingly admitted our DRB-Hicom abams are more hardworking and producing better quality cars than their Wolfsburg abams, so the only reason they expand in Wolfsburg is purely to gain from taxpayers money. If they want quality they come to us.
VW Wolfsburg currently employs 60,500 people. Pekan has a total population of 103,839.
German gomen desperate to keep VW at Wolfsburg and employ their abam voters. If objectively want the best car, they would shift the plant to DRB Pekan for best quality and productivity. In the end, even Europe also gives tongkat to their carmakers, so why are people complaining our Gomen give tongkat. Must same-same mah!
will there be a vw morpheus and vw neo?