Volkswagen announces its new factory where it will produce the “electric Passat”

Volkswagen, which will build a new facility for its flagship in the electric future, recently shared its location and investment details.

The long-awaited ID this month. Volkswagen, which is preparing to present Buzz with mass production dynamics, will take very serious steps in the next 5 years in the electric car competition. In the transformation movement that started with ID.3, the new curtain opens in 2026 for the Germany-based brand, which has reached the level of offering solutions in many segments in a short time. With the “Trinity” project, the first details of which were shared last year, we expect the brand to reveal its most serious trump card in the electric sedan league. Continuing its preparations for the model, which was launched as a Passat-sized flagship, Volkswagen recently announced with an important investment the facility where this vehicle will be produced. A budget of $2.2 billion for the new factory, which we see will be built within the borders of Wolfsburg, where the headquarters is located. on the table.

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Volkswagen Trinity will also reveal new technologies in the electric future of the brand

When we look at the details shared about the facility, which is announced to be built in the Warmenau region of Wolfsburg, we see that the work will start for the spring term of 2023. Volkswagen management has marked the transition of the plant to the active production process in 2026, in line with Trinity’s planning, in the absence of a disruption. Christian Vollmer, Member of the Board of Directors, who made explanations about the process; “We focus on innovative and sustainable production concepts in our work. The new factory we will build in Warmenau will also provide us with an important opportunity to carry our current facilities into the future. Trinity, the first project we will develop here, will represent the new era of our new kind of production and partnership understanding.” he stated. According to the information given by the authorities, the annual production capacity of the plant will be 250 thousand units.

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It is known that Volkswagen has benefited from the MEB platform in its ID product range, which is still taking shape. Sharing this platform for the electric models of other brands in the group, the brand will also launch the latest technologies it has developed with the Trinity project. The model, which will be built on a new platform called “SSP”, will bring along a completely different battery and technology power in parallel. On the technology side, the fourth level autonomous driving comes to the fore at this point, it is worth noting that the 700-kilometer range value is also among the information, together with the new battery system. Volkswagen is preparing to remove the sedan body type of Passat from production by the end of this year. Passat, which has been on sale since the beginning of the 70s, can only be preferred with the Station Wagon body type, with its new and probably the last generation, which is currently under testing.

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