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VW to build electric car plant in US

by on15 January 2019


Investing $800 million

Adolf Hitler's favourite car company, Volkswagen, will spend $800 million to expand a US factory that will produce the automaker's next generation of electric vehicles.

The factory in Chattanooga will be the company's North American base for manufacturing electric vehicles and will create 1,000 new jobs at the plant. It is all part of a cunning plan to move away from diesel in the wake of the emissions cheating scandal that erupted in 2015.

Globally, VW Group plans to commit almost $50 billion through 2023 toward the development and production of electric vehicles and digital services. Volkswagen wants to flog 150,000 EVs by 2020 worldwide, increasing that number to a million by 2025.

The Tennessee factory will produce EVs using Volkswagen's modular electric toolkit chassis, or MEB, introduced by the company in 2016.

Electric vehicle production at the Tennessee site will begin in 2022. However, Volkswagen of America says it will offer the first EV based on the MEB platform to customers in 2020.

This EV will be a series-production version of the I.D. CROZZ SUV concept that was first shown at the North American International Auto Show last year.

This vehicle will have the interior space of a midsize SUV in the footprint of a compact SUV. This EV will be a series-production version of the I.D. CROZZ SUV concept (pictured) that was first shown at the North American International Auto Show last year.

This vehicle will have the interior space of a midsize SUV in the footprint of a compact SUV. Volkswagen of America will also offer a multi-purpose EV based off the I.D. BUZZ concept.

Last modified on 15 January 2019
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