21.8.2019. The Tianmen Mountain is deeply rooted in Chinese mythology. The 1.519-Meter-high mountain in the South of the country is considered the “gate to heaven”. Strong symbolic meaning, therefore, has also the project of Volkswagen, with the purely electrically driven ID.R to draw up to about eleven kilometers long, with 99 curves-studded road to the summit of a track record. With the spectacular use of emission-free ID.R, the Volkswagen brand supports a comprehensive electro-mobility campaign in China.
“China wants to take in relation to sustainable mobility, digitisation and new mobility services on a pioneering role,” says Dr. Stephan Wöllenstein, a member of the Volkswagen brand management Board and CEO of the brand Volkswagen in China. “By 2020, the Volkswagen brand will be in China for ten electrified models in the Portfolio, followed by the market launch of the pure electric-driven ID. Product family, which is based on the innovative MEB-platform. By 2023, ten fully networked ID to. Models with different body shapes on the roads in China be on the road.“
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- Volkswagen is the market leader in China
- “China Challenge” – a New challenge at Tianmen Mountain
- Emission-free E-records for the history books
Volkswagen is the market leader in China
Since 1983, Volkswagen brand vehicles are made in China. Through Joint Ventures with the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) and First Automotive Works (FAW) developed, Volkswagen is the market leader. Together with the Joint Ventures, the Volkswagen Group China operates in the country today, with 33 production sites with over 100,000 employees. The country is also the largest single market for Volkswagen. In 2018, the Volkswagen group sold over 4.21 million vehicles in China, of which 3,11 million of the Volkswagen brand. With a worldwide sales volume of 6.24 million Cars of the brand Volkswagen in the year 2018, every second vehicle sold in China.
According to the market data of the Center of Automotive Management (CAM) were sold in 2018, in China, approximately one Million E-cars. 2020 are expected to be already rolling over five million electric vehicles on the roads of the country. According to a SAIC Volkswagen plant in Anting, near Shanghai, is converted to the production of vehicles based on the Modular E-drive modular system (MDB) of Volkswagen is based. Similarly, the FAW-Volkswagen plant in Foshan E-cars on the Basis of the MEB is the finished platform. In both plants the production starts in the year 2020.
“China Challenge” – a New challenge at Tianmen Mountain
Narrow, steep and winding: with the record attempt of the ID.R on the Tianmen Mountain is set in the E-Offensive by Volkswagen in China in a spectacular scene. The track has it all and is a journey into the Unknown, because so far it has not given such a record attempt at the “gate to heaven” yet – especially since the best performance can be achieved without the emission of carbon dioxide. For the first time in the history of Volkswagen Motorsport, the logistics of the Event in China, low-emission electrical paths. With the freight train of the ID.R along the silk road to the foot of mount Tianmen transported around 11,000 kilometres within three weeks.
Emission-free E-records for the history books
The 500 kW (680 HP) for the supplier of Electric racing car, the absolute track record at the mountain race on Pikes Peak (USA), at the Goodwood Festival of Speed (GB), as well as the lap record for electric vehicles on the legendary Nürburgring-Nordschleife (D) generated free of emissions. The best time on the Nordschleife, so what is the most energy efficient round ever on the traditional circuit in the Eifel mountains.
ID.R is on the Tianmen Mountain for the first time, with red paint at the Start. (Photo: Volkswagen AG)
