Audi launches its fifth all-electric vehicle

Almost exactly one year since the first Audi e-tron made its camouflaged debut at the Geneva Motor Show, a concept that will form the basis of the fifth fully electric model to join the range by the close of the decade, broke cover at the same location.

Volkswagen reinvents the dune buggy – with electric power

Volkswagen is bringing a legend back to life. At the beginning of March, the Wolfsburg-based Group will reveal the first fully electric version of a new buggy. Taking its cues from popular American dune buggies, the concept vehicle is based on the modular electric drive matrix (MEB), demonstrating how multifaceted the new platform truly is. […]

Volkswagen building first factory in China for cars based on new MEB electric platform

The electrification strategy of the Volkswagen Group China is rapidly gaining pace in the world’s biggest market for e-mobility. The Group’s first factory specifically designed for the electric MEB platform is now commencing construction in Anting. The first model that will be produced in the factory of SAIC VOLKSWAGEN is a Volkswagen Brand SUV in 2020. Together with the FAW-Volkswagen factory in Foshan, which opened this summer, SAIC VOLKSWAGEN’s plant will begin to produce e-cars on the MEB platform directly after the first worldwide MEB-production starts in Zwickau, Germany.

Volkswagen starts countdown to the launch of the all-electric I.D.

Volkswagen says the largest product and technology offensive in its history is now taking shape. One hundred weeks ahead of the planned start of production of the first model in the I.D. family, the Board of Management agreed on milestones in the run-up to production with key suppliers at the “MEB Supplier Summit”

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