The Volkswagen Group of America Chattanooga Plant is located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, about 214 kilometers southeast of Nashville. As Volkswagen’s North American hub for electric vehicle assembly, the Chattanooga Plant assembles the all-electric ID.4 and houses the high-tech Battery Engineering Lab. The plant also assembles the Atlas and Atlas Cross Sport. Volkswagen is proud to of the efforts of the 5,500 employees who make Volkswagen Chattanooga run.
Volkswagen Group of America Chattanooga
Facts and figures
As of: Novemer 2023
| Area: | 353,353 square meters under roof |
| Production: | 175,000 YTD vehicles (as of November 2023) |
| Models: | Volkswagen ID.4, Volkswagen Atlas, Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport |
| Employees: | about 5,500 |
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Press releases
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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 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. -
Location decision in North America: Volkswagen to build new generation of electric cars in Chattanooga
The Volkswagen brand is forging ahead consistently with its electric offensive and has now announced the first production location in North America. In future, the Chattanooga plant in Tennessee is to produce vehicles based on the modular electric toolkit MEB, a new generation of electric cars. For this purpose, Volkswagen is investing about €700 million ($800 million) in the plant. The expansion of the plant will create up to 1,000 new jobs plus additional jobs at suppliers. The first electric car from Chattanooga is to roll off the production line in 2022. Over the next few years, eight MEB plants are to be developed in Europe, North America and China. Volkswagen is building up the production capacity needed to sell more than 1 million electric cars per year by 2025.
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