With SAIC Volkswagen ID.6 boarding the latest batch of MIIT product announcements, Volkswagen ID. based on MEB platform The product planning of series models in the Chinese market has also gradually surfaced.
"by 2023, SAIC-Volkswagen will have three domestic ID. models. Models, including ID.6 and ID.3, FAW-Volkswagen and Volkswagen Anhui a total of 5 ID. Model. " Recently, some industry insiders close to the Volkswagen system revealed to the Financial Associated Press.
In November last year, Feng Sihan, CEO of Volkswagen Group (China), officially announced for the first time that Volkswagen would launch a total of eight ID. models in China by the end of 2023. Car model. At the end of January, Feng Sihan once again revealed that three more ID models will be introduced this year, which will be unveiled at this year's Shanghai auto show.
More than ten days after Feng Sihan revealed this detail, the above three ID. models SAIC Volkswagen ID.6X in the model appeared in the latest issue of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology "Road Motor vehicle production Enterprises and products Bulletin" (batch 341). This is the second MEB platform model introduced by SAIC Volkswagen after the ID.4X, and it is also the third ID. unveiled by Volkswagen in China. Models-at the beginning of this year, the ID.4 X of the Volkswagen ID.4 family and the ID.4CROZZ of FAW-Volkswagen officially opened for pre-sale.
Different from the compact pure electric SUV positioning ID.4, the SAIC Volkswagen ID.6X positioning as a medium-sized pure electric SUV, will compete with Weilai ES6 and other models in the future.
According to Volkswagen's "two-car strategy", in addition to the ID.6 X that SAIC-Volkswagen will put into production, FAW-Volkswagen will also be put into production of ID.6. On July 29th, a document from Foshan Ecological Environment Bureau showed that the environmental impact report of the VW316/7CN_B vehicle technical transformation project of FAW-Volkswagen Foshan plant was approved. The document shows that after technical transformation, the production capacity of MQB series of fuel vehicles remains unchanged (65000 F11 models per year and 85000 vehicles per year for F66 models), while the production capacity of A SUVe electric vehicles is reduced from 150000 vehicles per year to 60, 000 vehicles per year, a reduction of 90, 000 vehicles per year, and the production capacity of newly added VW316/7CN_B models of electric vehicles is 90, 000 vehicles per year. After the technical transformation, the total production capacity of FAW-Volkswagen Foshan plant (phase I) remains unchanged, still 300000 vehicles / year.
"the A SUVe model of the electric car in the above document is Audi's Q4 eMurtron, while the VW316/7CN_B is another ID. of Volkswagen. Series of models. " The person familiar with the matter said.
A platform number certified by FAW-Volkswagen Product Management Department released an article entitled "VW316/7CN_B achieves a major milestone one week ahead of schedule" on December 3 last year, indicating the progress of the FAW-Volkswagen ID.6 model about to be SOP (mass production). The article shows that the VW316/7CN_B is the second model of the MEB platform and has been released with another major milestone ahead of SOP a week in advance of the same day. Although this article does not disclose the specific knowledge of "Major milestone release", but combined with the previous information, VW316/7CN_B has passed the quality control node of ZP8. According to Volkswagen's production system, ZP8 refers to the inspection of the whole process by quality assurance personnel, including the performance of the whole vehicle, which is the most critical node before SOP.
According to the naming system of Volkswagen ID.4, the VW316/7CN_B model to be mass produced by FAW-Volkswagen Foshan plant is likely to be named ID.6 CROZZ, which corresponds to SAIC-Volkswagen ID.6 X, which has been listed in the catalogue of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
"in addition to the ID.6 X, SAIC-Volkswagen also has a MEB platform model, the ID.3, which will also be unveiled this year." The person familiar with the matter confirmed the industry rumors.
Prior to this, there has been news in the industry that the ID.3 positioning electric compact hatchback can be regarded as the e-Golf of the MEB platform. The European version of the car will be introduced into SAIC-Volkswagen, while FAW-Volkswagen will be put into production in China. The FAW-Volkswagen pre-Volkswagen pre-production Center, which is certified as VSC, said on October 21 last year that the first body-in-white trial car, code-named VW413/1CN_B and the third model of the Volkswagen MEB platform, was officially launched at the pre-batch Center on October 19th. At the same time, FAW-Volkswagen also issued a tender announcement for the technical renovation project of VW413/1CN_B models in September 2019. According to the announcement, the project is located at the FAW-Volkswagen Foshan plant with a total investment of RMB 2.9 billion. After the completion of the project, it will form the production capacity of Nissan's 400 VW413/1CN_B models.
In addition to North and South Volkswagen, Volkswagen (Anhui) (formerly Jianghuai Volkswagen), which completed the equity change in December last year, will also complete the production of MEB platform products by the end of 2022, with a maximum annual production capacity of 350000 vehicles. According to industry analysis, the Volkswagen (Anhui) factory may launch small pure electric vehicles based on MEB Lite platform, including ID.1, to compete with SAIC-Volkswagen and FAW-Volkswagen ID.. There are differences in the series of products.
By 2025, 15 MEB platform models under the group's brands will be produced locally, and electric models will account for 35 per cent of the group's product portfolio in China. On this basis, we expect to be able to deliver about 1.5 million new energy vehicles per year. Feng Sihan made clear the planning of the MEB platform model for the first time at the end of January this year. This means that Volkswagen will introduce more MEB-based pure electric models into the Chinese market between 2024 and 2025.
