The German automobile company aims to start rolling out the net carbon-neutral Trinity model from 2026
The new Trinity factory will be built in Wolfsburg-Warmenau. (Credit: Volkswagen)
Volkswagen said that its supervisory board has approved a new manufacturing facility for the Trinity electric sedan to be built in Wolfsburg, Germany with an investment of around €2bn.
The new facility will be built near the company’s main plant in the Warmenau district.
Construction work will start as early as spring 2023, said the German automobile manufacturer.
Volkswagen aims to start rolling out the net carbon-neutral Trinity model from 2026.
Volkswagen CEO Ralf Brandstätter said: “The decision by the Supervisory Board is an important milestone for the transformation of our brand and the future of the Wolfsburg production facility. We are thus strengthening and sustaining the competitiveness of the main plant and giving the workforce a robust long-term perspective.
“We are setting benchmarks in the automotive industry with Trinity and the new factory and turning Wolfsburg into the global lighthouse for cutting-edge and efficient vehicle production. This reaffirms that the economic transformation of Germany as a center of industry can be achieved.”
The Trinity electric sedan is designed to have a shorter charging time and a range of more than 700km. It will be integrated with Volkswagen’s software and will be ready technically for Level 4 autonomous driving.
The electric sedan will be built on the company’s Scalable Systems Platform (SSP) platform, which is expected to help produce more than 40 million vehicles over its lifetime. Unveiled in March 2021, the SSP is the next generation of all-electric, fully digital and scalable vehicle platform, on which models of all brands and segments can be developed.
Volkswagen will also invest €800m in an advanced research and development center in Europe to fuel the future of mobility in the near future. The company is said to have plans for integrating modern electric vehicle production based on the SSP platform and modelling on the Trinity facility at the existing main plant in Wolfsburg by the end of this decade.
Volkswagen management board member Christian Vollmer said: “We are focusing on innovative and sustainable manufacturing concepts. Building a new factory in Warmenau also gives us the opportunity to make the existing factory fit for the future, step-by-step and from top to bottom.”