E -Golph had to die so that ID.3 could survive, but Volkswagen is preparing for OL Switcho. However, this change may take longer than planning. Although VW has announced plans to start electric golf by the end of the decade, a new report shows that the project is not developing as expected. It seems that for the ninth generation model, the Wolfsburg Factory is guilty of high price.
Referring to the company’s internal sources, Bloomberg (Subscript is required) It is claimed that VW does not yet have the money to upgrade its central factory in Germany. As a result, the costs should be “postponed to a period of expenditure”, which will result in a nine -month delay in the withdrawal of electric golf.
According to the same sources familiar with the VW agenda, the Electric T-ROC has suffered a similar blow. The compact crossover, which is developed without combustion engine, is also scheduled for production in Wolfsburg, likely to start immediately after the first electric golf line is removed.
The delay in golf MK 9 is likely to affect the current generation model. VW plans to transfer MK8 production in Mexico to Mexico from 2027 to its Pobella factory in Mexico. However, the delays in retrieving the plant for EV have long been built in Hachback and Wagon Wolfsburg.
The next general golf will be the first VW group product that will use the new scaleable system platform. Although SSP is primarily a basic architecture for electric cars, it can still adjust combustion engines, although only as a generator of excessive expansion vehicles.
The SSP will serve as the company’s electric lineup backbone, which will identify a variety of products in several classes. In the case of golf, VW is cooperating with the Revenue to convert its most successful car into a “software -determined vehicle”.
When the electric golf eventually returns, he will not replace the existing model. VW suggests that MK 8 can stay on sale for another decade, even the European Union has banned the sale of new combustion cars. However, this legislation has not been kept in stone. A review schedule has been scheduled before the end of the year, and the growing pressure of automated makers can still lease snow on the life of 2035. Even if there is a gasoline engine, it can be restricted to plugin hybrids or EVS, which is the range expansion.
Whatever happens, VW still needs to be carefully planned and instead of bringing power golf to the market instead. Contrary to popular belief, EV is acquiring land in Europe. According to the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) data, during July, electric cars were 17.4 % of the total supply in the continent. This is a significant increase in the same period last year, when EV increased by only 13.8 %. The arrival of cheap models, such as VW’s own ID.2 polo and ID.1, should be more pleased to switch buyers.
Once a dominant force in the industry, golf has been quietly ending in recent years. Internal documents that have been viewed through Reuters Show Production dropped from more than one million units in 2015 to just more than 300,000 last year. This year, the number may be another 250,000. But the shocking fall is not just because of the competition. The TROC, primarily, is clearly handling the sale of a cross-over golf, hatchback and wagon.
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Automoto News Europe
