Volkswagen is pumping €6.4 billion into US electric cars

The American delivery range of Volkswagen consists of more SUVs every year. After this year, Volkswagen will cut the Passat specially developed for the local market from its range and the Golf is just as available as a GTI or R. In addition, Volkswagen still has the Jetta and the Arteon on the menu, but whoever passes that sedan brother of the Golf and that slick Passat brother will only encounter SUVs and crossovers. From the Tiguan to the here unknown Taos and the Atlas and Atlas Cross Sport, which were also not delivered in Europe. The only electric car that Volkswagen offers in the United States is the ID4. That has to be different.

Over the next five years, Volkswagen will invest $7.1 billion, or $6.4 billion, in transforming its North American delivery range. Volkswagen will launch the ID.Buzz there in 2024 and expand the EV range two years later with “[…] a new electric SUV.” But there is more. The range of fully electric models from the Volkswagen Group in the United States should consist of 25 new models around 2030. Please note, this also includes EVs from Audi and possibly Bentley. further indicates that it will also build the ID4 in the United States, but there is more.

The large focus on electric cars should lead to 55 percent of all cars it sells in the United States by 2030, according to Volkswagen. At the beginning of the next decade, Volkswagen says it does not want to offer cars with combustion engines in the United States. The phasing out of the combustion engine is already starting, the brand says. Volkswagen will, among other things, adapt its factories in Mexico and the United States for the (partial) production of EVs. Volkswagen also wants to set up a factory in North America where it can produce batteries. More on that later this year.