ID.3 will begin delivery next summer.
Volkswagen Disclosed on Twitter, Volkswagen’s first purely electric model ID. 3 On the 4th of November, next Monday, mass production will be launched at the Zwickau plant in Germany, and ID.3 will be based on the new modular electric drive platform (MEB).
In recent years, Volkswagen Group has been committed to building a new modular electric drive platform. The so-called modularity means that the electric drive, battery, suspension, body parts and other parts are separate discrete modules, which can be freely combined according to the needs of the model. In the future, most of Volkswagen’s electric vehicles will be produced on this platform.
To rebuild the Zwickau factory, the Volkswagen Group has a total investment of about 1.2 billion euros. The phased transformation of the plant began last year and will be fully completed in 2021. By then, the Zwickau plant will be the largest electric car plant in Europe, with a target annual production capacity of 330,000 vehicles.
In 2016, Volkswagen released the ID series concept car at the Paris Motor Show, and the upcoming ID.3 model was released by Volkswagen at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September this year. . It is not only the first mass-produced electric model of the Volkswagen ID series, but also the first Volkswagen model to adopt the new logo.
A new flatter logo (picture from Volkswagen official)
ID.3 Positioned as a pure electric compact hatchback with pure electric rear-wheel drive, the interior design is completely different from the existing Volkswagen. The number 3 in the model name indicates that this is the third milestone model after Volkswagen’s Beetle and Golf. Calculated according to WLTP standards, ID.3 short range (45kWh battery), medium distance (58kWh) and long distance (77kWh) three versions of the mileage mileageDo not reach approximately 330, 420 and 550 km.
In May of this year, ID.3 took the lead in opening pre-sales in Europe, when the starting price was close to 40,000 euros (about 310,000 yuan). According to the public, since the pre-sale in May, ID.3 has received more than 30,000 orders, and the first 30,000 scheduled consumers will receive ID.3 1 ST. Special version.
The official introduction of the public, the first batch of ID.3 will not be sold, but used to build a demonstration team. Large-scale delivery to market customers will begin in the summer of 2020.
According to the previous plan of the Volkswagen Group, it will invest 70 billion euros (about 547.946 billion yuan) in the field of electrification, of which 50 billion euros (about 391.39 billion yuan) will be used to purchase power batteries. 20 billion euros (about 156.565 billion yuan) for the production of electric vehicles.
At present, Volkswagen’s above investment has already begun to bear fruit. According to Volkswagen Group CEO Des, Porsche Taycan’s first-year production has been sold out, and Volkswagen ID.3 orders have been placed in mid-2020. This year, the cumulative sales of Audi e-Tron will also reach 20,000.
Diss also revealed that it is expected that by 2028, Volkswagen will launch nearly 70 electric vehicles.