1 Millionth Electric Vehicle Rolls off the Production Line at the Volkswagen Plant in Zwickau

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• Plant in Saxony produces six e-models of the Group manufacturers Volkswagen, Audi and Cupra
• Nearly each second registered electrical automobile of the Volkswagen Group worldwide comes from Zwickau
• The anniversary car is an ID.3 GTX Efficiency⁰¹
• Plant Supervisor Danny Auerswald: “One million e-cars produced is a strong achievement by the workforce. Despite numerous challenges in recent years, the team has always delivered.”

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

Danny Auerswald, Chairman of the Board of Administration of Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH: “One million electric cars produced is a strong achievement by the workforce. Despite numerous challenges in recent years, the team has always delivered the models on time, reliably and in high quality. I would like to thank you very much for this. Today is a day we can be proud of. At the same time, we have set an important course for the future. It is of central importance to implement our site agreement for the vehicle plant. We need to make our site competitive in the coming months to ensure future investment in the plant. We are currently examining promising options in promising business areas of the circular economy.”

Uwe Kunstmann, Chairman of the Common Works Council of Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH: “A production anniversary is always special for the workforce. My thanks go to our team and their tireless efforts. It was only through the hard work of our colleagues that the one million e-cars could be built here at the site. Zwickau was the first plant to convert from 100 percent combustion engines to 100 percent electric mobility. We have proven in the Group that we can be relied on in Saxony because we think of our customers and transformation is something we are born with. In the second half of 2026, the factory will change, we will hand over models to other locations. At the same time, we see great opportunities for entering the circular economy topic. This would give us a second strategic pillar and once again play a pioneering role for the Group.”

Six electrical fashions can be in-built Zwickau for 3 Group manufacturers. The final combustion car 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 car start-ups have been accomplished. With the beginning of manufacturing of the ID.5 in January 2022, the transformation of the Zwickau car plant right into a purely electrical multi-brand location was accomplished and the MEB introduction was efficiently applied. So far, 2.3 million MEB autos have been delivered to clients worldwide throughout all Group manufacturers — which means nearly each second electrical automobile registered by the Volkswagen Group comes from Zwickau. The Volkswagen Group is the clear market chief in all-electric autos in Europe and achieved a market share of round 26 % on this phase within the first quarter of 2025.

In 2024, 204,000 autos have been produced in Zwickau. Since Volkswagen took over the location in 1990, greater than seven million autos have left the manufacturing facility halls. With the beginning of manufacturing of electrical autos, Zwickau took on a key function within the Volkswagen Group: For the primary time, a big automobile manufacturing facility was fully transformed to electrical mobility at a price 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.