Volkswagen comes out with electric model under ID.2
Comprehensive future plan Volkswagen
“Based on the results of last December’s negotiations, we have embarked on the most comprehensive future plan in Volkswagen’s history. We are now following an ambitious course to ensure that we achieve the goals we have jointly set. This will be an important step in making electromobility more attractive and attainable for everyone, which is at the core of our brand,” said CEO Schäfer.
Wolfsburg
At the same time, Volkswagen’s CEO stressed that Wolfsburg remains the center for innovation and production, with Volkswagen’s main plant set to set new standards in car production.
A show car first, production to follow in 2027
Beginning March 2025, Volkswagen will present a show car based on the new small electric car. The world premiere of the production model is scheduled for 2027. With a starting price of around 20,000 euros, the new entry-level electric model will be attractive and accessible to a broad group of consumers, a Volkswagen in the true sense of the word. Schäfer: “It will be an affordable, high-quality and cost-effective electric Volkswagen, from Europe for Europe!”
Electric Age
Affordable electromobility in the small-car class in the electric age will be one of the focal points of Volkswagen’s future plan. Together with the production version of the ID. 2all, the new entry-level electric model is part of the new family of electric small cars being developed under the umbrella of the Brand Group Core within the Volkswagen Group.
MEB platform
The model family includes compact, all-electric cars based on an evolutionary version of the Volkswagen Group’s MEB modular electric platform. The first new model on that platform will be the production version of the ID. 2all show car, which should arrive at dealerships in 2026 as Volkswagen’s first all-electric compact car, with a starting price under €25,000.
ID family
Volkswagen already has a strong position in all-electric vehicles (BEV). Since the launch of the ID.family in 2019, the brand has sold a total of more than 1.35 million ID.models worldwide, including about 500,000 ID.3s. Last year, the Volkswagen brand sold 383,100 fully electric cars.
Clear perspective for the Wolfsburg plant
At the same time, Thomas Schäfer emphasizes that the Wolfsburg plant remains the heart of the Volkswagen brand even in the electric age: “The Wolfsburg plant has a clear future perspective. The agreed move from the Gulf to Mexico creates space for future models. We plan to produce the electric successor to the Golf on the new SSP platform there, as well as the electric T-Roc.”
The Scalable Systems Platform (SSP) is the next generation of an all-electric, fully digitized and highly scalable mechatronics platform based on a unified system architecture. Volkswagen’s Technical Development Department is developing this SSP platform for use by all other Volkswagen Group passenger car brands.
Volkswagen’s ‘Triple A’ plan: accelerate, attack and realize
With “Zukunft Volkswagen” (Future Volkswagen), Volkswagen AG reached agreement with employee representatives at the end of December 2024 on a vision of the future that combines economic stability, employment and technological leadership in sustainable mobility. Binding goals and the measures agreed upon to achieve them lay the foundation for future projects. The jointly agreed goal is for Volkswagen passenger cars – as the core of Volkswagen AG – to be the technologically leading volume manufacturer worldwide by 2030.
To that end, Volkswagen has given the green light to an ambitious three-phase plan:
- Catching up: competitiveness must be strengthened by optimizing cost structures and purposefully expanding the existing model portfolio.
- Attack: by 2027 there will be nine new models, including the production version of the ID.2all with a starting price under €25,000 and the new entry-level electric model starting at around €20,000.
- Leading edge: as a leading technology brand in the volume segment, Volkswagen is setting new standards and leading the way in mobility worldwide.