5.3.2019. The Volkswagen group intends to open its electrification kit (MEB) for other producers. By a wide distribution of the MEB and the associated economies of scale, the costs of E can be reduced and mobility significantly.
Thus, individual mobility in the future for many people, affordable and usable. The Volkswagen group has planned in the first Phase, 15 million pure electric vehicles on the MEB. As the world’s first external Partner, the Aachen e. GO Mobile AG is to take advantage of the electrification kit in order to bring the Volkswagen model range of complementary E-cars on the market.
A specific vehicle project is currently being planned. With the ID. BUGGY Volkswagen is showing at the Geneva motor show and already the variability of the MDS, even for small series, which can be easy and cheap to be realized.
Dr. Herbert Diess, member of the Board Chairman of Volkswagen AG: “we are platform-are professionals, we have proved with our Modular Transverse matrix. On this platform, over 100 million of our vehicles are based. With the MEB-platform, we transferred this successful concept in the electric age, and open us to a third party. The MDBs will be established as a Standard of E-mobility. On its Basis, we make individual mobility CO2-neutral, safe, comfortable and accessible for as many people as possible. Because the self-emotional, small-scale vehicles such as the ID. BUGGY on the Basis of MEB simple and inexpensive to implement. I am pleased that we have found with the e. GO to the first partner that wants to use our electrification kit as a Basis for jointly determining vehicle project.“
Prof. Dr. Günther Schuh, CEO of the e. GO Mobile AG, adds: “We are delighted that the Volkswagen group has offered this cooperation. We can bring in the agility of the e. GO in product development and our strength in building vehicles in small series on the Basis of aluminium profiles-space frames. And we are going through the MEB-platform faster, more robust and more cost-effective.“
For Volkswagen in 2019, is a key year in the E-Offensive that will accelerate in the coming years. In Geneva, the Volkswagen group is a large number of E-vehicles and E-studies in the next few years to the customer, such as the Audi e-tron GT, Skoda Vision iV, SEAT Urban Car or the ID. BUGGY.
Nearly 44 billion euros, Volkswagen will invest up to 2023 for electrification, digitalization, mobility services and Autonomous Driving, 30 billion euros of which alone in the E-mobility. By 2025, electric cars will account for around a quarter of the model portfolios.
The e. GO Mobile AG is considered to be one of the pioneers of electric mobility and was founded in 2015 by Prof. Dr. Günther Schuh. In agile Teams is a vehicle in the e. GO to a different cost-effective and customer-oriented electric for short-haul transport work.
Volkswagen ID. BUGGY (photo: Volkswagen AG)
