Volkswagen is becoming a strong and profitable automobile brand in the North America region. The brand continues its push with new models tailored to the American taste, focusing on electrification and new models in the best-selling SUV segments. The Volkswagen ID.4 has been sold with great success in the United States and Canada since 2021, and local assembly of the model starts in mid-2022 at the Chattanooga, Tennessee plant. Further electrified models are about to enter the American market, including the ID. Buzz, a sedan model, as well as new SUV models in the years to come. Through 2027, Volkswagen will invest more than 2 billion euros in the electrification and digitalization of its products in the North American region. At the same time, the brand, with its conventional model range, focuses on highly desirable and profitable SUVs, including the bestsellers Atlas and Atlas Cross Sport - both manufactured in Chattanooga - as well as Tiguan and Taos, both built in Puebla, Mexico. Golf R and GTI as well as the Arteon help sharpen the brand image. Volkswagen has created more than 4,000 jobs at its Chattanooga facilities. In addition, hundreds of experts are driving research in nationwide technology centers for batteries, software, design and materials research. The brand is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia.
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Volkswagen starts U.S. assembly of all-electric ID.4 flagship in Chattanooga, Tennessee
Volkswagen of America (VWoA) today marked the start of production of its all-electric ID.4 compact SUV in Chattanooga, Tenn., the company’s first electric vehicle assembled in the United States. -
Volkswagen Group invests in automation for Emden, Hanover and Chattanooga plants
The Volkswagen Passenger Cars and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles brands are working flat out on the transformation to the e-mobility era and the conversion of plants to e-mobility. The Volkswagen brand has now ordered more than 1,400 robots from Japanese manufacturer FANUC for its production facilities at Chattanooga (USA) and Emden. Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has ordered a further 800 robots for its Hanover plant from ABB of Switzerland. The robots are to be mainly used for body production and battery assembly. The three plants are currently being prepared for the production of electric cars using highly advanced facilities. From 2022, the ID.4 is to be produced at Chattanooga (USA) and Emden, while the model known under the show car name of ID. BUZZ is to roll off the production line at Hanover. -
Volkswagen breaks ground on expansion for electric vehicle production in United States
Volkswagen of America marked the start of construction for its electric vehicle production facility. The Chattanooga site, where production begins in 2022, will be Volkswagen's North American assembly base for electric vehicles on the Modular Electric Drive Matrix (MEB). The company also announced it intends to build a plant for the assembly of battery packs for EVs at the Chattanooga site.
