Wolfsburg plant – the heart of
the VW brand

Volkswagen in Wolfsburg

2. Current production

• Four models (incl. derivatives):
  Volkswagen Golf / Golf Variant, Touran and Tiguan.

3. The world’s largest single car manufacturing complex

• The heart of the Volkswagen brand is located on the Mittelland Canal between Hannover and Magdeburg: The Wolfsburg plant is the headquarters of Volkswagen Passenger Cars and is the world’s largest single car manufacturing complex.
• The factory halls take up a surface area of 1.6 square kilometers.
• The network of roads has a total length of 75 kilometers, with an additional 60 kilometers of railway tracks.

4. Technical Development

• Technical Development (TD) at Wolfsburg represents one of the largest development centers in the automotive industry.
• 11,500 highly qualified employees shape the mobility of the future: electrification, digitalization and automated driving.

5. Commitment to sustainability / environmental protection

• Reducing the environmental impact at the Wolfsburg plant caused by production by 38.1% compared with 2010 by 2025.
• Continuous increases of energy efficiency at the headquarters of 2% per year (since 2019)
• Key measures:
  35,000 MWh energy measures per year
  Reduction of base load to <45 MW
  Initiatives like “No Plastic”

Power plant to be equipped with high-efficiency gas turbines starting in 2024

• The two cogeneration plants operated in Wolfsburg by Volkswagen AG not only generate power and heat for the Volkswagen plant, but also heat for the city of Wolfsburg.
• In addition, together with the cogeneration plant at Kassel and the compact cogeneration plant at Brunswick, the Wolfsburg power plants supply electricity for the plants at Salzgitter, Brunswick, Emden, Hanover and Kassel.
• Volkswagen invested around 400 million euros in the fundamental modernisation two major power plants owned and operated by the company in Wolfsburg and switched from hard coal to natural gas operation.
• The high-efficiency gas turbines for the Wolfsburg power plants will reduce CO₂ emissions for power and heat generation permanently by about 60% (1.5 million metric tons) per year.
• This roughly equals the amount of CO₂ emitted by 870,000 cars powered by internal combustion engines during the same period.

6. History