VW starts production of the ID.4 electric crossover in Tennessee, but it will be a while before we see other ID models stateside.
are manufactured in 11 states, with electronics coming from North Carolina and Kentucky, steel parts from Ohio and Alabama, and interior parts from Indiana and South Carolina.
In total, the ID.4 is now produced in four factories around the world, with Foshan and Anting in China having joined ID.4 production in 2021 at two VW joint ventures in the country. "We’re just starting to write a new chapter for Volkswagen in America, and it is very much an American story," said Thomas Schäfer, chairman of the global Volkswagen brand. “When we promised to bring Volkswagen EVs to the millions, it always included American workers building those EVs right there in Chattanooga.Volkswagen
The start of US production is a major step for the automaker, which has contended with a number of delays early on during the pandemic, just as ID.3 and ID.4 production was getting started in Germany. Volkswagen has managed to work through a number of supplier challenges amid record demand for EVs in Europe in 2020 and 2021, with the start of production in Chattanooga designed to take some of the pressure offHowever, the ID.
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