Volkswagen's plant in Zwickau is now fully operational

We have already talked many times here in DrivingEco about Zwickau, as it was the first plant that the German manufacturer dedicated exclusively to the production of electric vehicles of the ID family, starting with the ID.3Exactly three years after the start of production of this model at the German plant, Volkswagen has announced a new production record.

According to the official statement that has just been made public, during the five working days of the week from November 7 to 13, A total of 7.100 electric vehicles rolled off the assembly lines in ZwickauThat is, about 1400 each day.

If we extrapolate this data to a full year, maintaining this same production volume during the 50 work weeks that comprise it, this would mean that the production of the Volkswagen plant in Zwickau It would be 350 thousand vehicles per year right now.

When Volkswagen announced the conversion of Zwickau to convert it into a plant dedicated exclusively to the production of electric vehicles, The goal was to scale up production to reach 330 thousand vehicles per year.. Thus, we can say that Volkswagen has even managed to exceed the target it had initially set.

Other implications of this production record at the Zwickau plant

On the other hand, given the supply chain problems that have affected the entire automotive sector over the past two years and the resulting bottlenecks, the fact that Volkswagen has now reached maximum production volume at the plant suggests that that difficult situation is now a thing of the past.

Volkswagen currently produces in Zwickau Six different models based on the MEB platformThese are the Volkswagen ID.3, ID.4 and ID.5; as well as the Q4 e-tron and Q4 Sportback e-tron models from Audi, in addition to the Born from the Spanish manufacturer Cupra.

Volkswagen also produces several models of the ID family in three other German plants. From the assembly line of Dresden A total of just over 10 units of the ID.3 have already been produced. Emden ID.4 is produced Since May of this year, while the plant Hanover is responsible for the production of its new electric van ID. Buzz.

Outside Germany, but without leaving Europe, it is also worth mentioning the plant of Mlada Boleslav in the Czech Republic, responsible for the production of the Skoda Enyaq and Enyaq Coupé models.