1 Millionth Electrical Automobile Rolls off the Manufacturing Line on the Volkswagen Plant in Zwickau

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• Plant in Saxony produces six e-models of the Group manufacturers Volkswagen, Audi and Cupra
• Virtually each second registered electrical automobile of the Volkswagen Group worldwide comes from Zwickau
• The anniversary automobile is an ID.3 GTX Efficiency⁰¹
• Plant Supervisor Danny Auerswald: “A million e-cars produced is a powerful achievement by the workforce. Regardless of quite a few challenges in recent times, the group has at all times delivered.”

After round 5 and a half years of all-electric automobile manufacturing, the Zwickau automobile plant has cracked a magic barrier: This week, the one millionth electrical automobile rolled off the manufacturing line on the multi-brand web site. The anniversary automobile is an ID.3 GTX Efficiency in Kings Purple Metallic. The automobile shall be delivered to a buyer from Bavaria in a couple of weeks on the Clear Manufacturing unit in Dresden.

Danny Auerswald, Chairman of the Board of Administration of Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH: “A million electrical vehicles produced is a powerful achievement by the workforce. Regardless of quite a few challenges in recent times, the group has at all times delivered the fashions on time, reliably and in prime quality. I want to thanks very a lot for this. At present is a day we could be pleased with. On the similar time, now we have set an essential course for the longer term. It’s of central significance to implement our web site settlement for the automobile plant. We have to make our web site aggressive within the coming months to make sure future funding within the plant. We’re at the moment analyzing promising choices in promising enterprise areas of the round economic system.”

Uwe Kunstmann, Chairman of the Normal Works Council of Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH: “A manufacturing anniversary is at all times particular for the workforce. My thanks go to our group and their tireless efforts. It was solely by the arduous work of our colleagues that the a million e-cars could possibly be constructed right here on the web site. Zwickau was the primary plant to transform from 100% combustion engines to 100% electrical mobility. We have now confirmed within the Group that we could be relied on in Saxony as a result of we consider our clients and transformation is one thing we’re born with. Within the second half of 2026, the manufacturing unit will change, we are going to hand over fashions to different places. On the similar time, we see nice alternatives for coming into the round economic system subject. This is able to give us a second strategic pillar and as soon as once more play a pioneering function for the Group.”

Six electrical fashions shall be in-built Zwickau for 3 Group manufacturers. The final combustion automobile rolled off the meeting line on June 26, 2020 — the tip of an period that started in 1904 with August Horch and in addition included Trabant manufacturing in GDR instances.

The beginning sign for Zwickau into the all-electric period was given on 4 November 2019 with the official begin of manufacturing of the ID.3. It was the Volkswagen Group’s first mannequin primarily based on the modular electrical drive matrix (MEB). In simply 26 months, a complete of six automobile start-ups have been accomplished. With the beginning of manufacturing of the ID.5 in January 2022, the transformation of the Zwickau automobile plant right into a purely electrical multi-brand location was accomplished and the MEB introduction was efficiently carried out. So far, 2.3 million MEB automobiles have been delivered to clients worldwide throughout all Group manufacturers — which means that nearly each second electrical automobile registered by the Volkswagen Group comes from Zwickau. The Volkswagen Group is the clear market chief in all-electric automobiles in Europe and achieved a market share of round 26 p.c on this phase within the first quarter of 2025.

In 2024, 204,000 automobiles have been produced in Zwickau. Since Volkswagen took over the location in 1990, greater than seven million automobiles have left the manufacturing unit halls. With the beginning of manufacturing of electrical automobiles, Zwickau took on a key function within the Volkswagen Group: For the primary time, a big automobile manufacturing unit was fully transformed to electrical mobility at a value of 1.2 billion euros. The our bodies for the Bentley Bentayga and the Lamborghini Urus are additionally manufactured in Zwickau.

Information launch from Volkswagen.