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Commencing of ID.3 Production Heralds New Age for Volkswagen

By Grant Cox

ZWICKAU, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 04: Volkswagen ID.3 electric cars stand on the assembly line at the Volkswagen factory on November 04, 2019 in Zwickau, Germany. Volkswagen launched assembly of the car at the Zwickau plant today. A spokesman said the numbers of vehicles finished per day will gradually be ramped up, from a current 6 to over 50 by the end of the year, and then much higher numbers in 2020. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
ZWICKAU, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 04: Volkswagen ID.3 electric cars stand on the assembly line at the Volkswagen factory on November 04, 2019 in Zwickau, Germany. Volkswagen launched assembly of the car at the Zwickau plant today. A spokesman said the numbers of vehicles finished per day will gradually be ramped up, from a current 6 to over 50 by the end of the year, and then much higher numbers in 2020. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) /
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Volkswagen starts production on ID.3, the first of many new electric vehicles using the MEB Platform.

Yesterday Volkswagen took a massive step in their future when they announced that production had started on the ID.3, their first electric vehicle on the new MEB Platform. This is more than just the beginning of assembly for that car though, it’s also the start of the transition from gas to electric vehicle production for the Zwickau plant—where the ID.3 is being built.

At the ceremony VW was joined by  the Federal Chancellor of Germany, Dr. Angela Merkel, where she and others watched the first ID.3 roll off the line and officially kick off VW’s latest push into the EV market. CEO Herbert Diess had this to say at the ceremony:

"“The ID.3 will make an important contribution to the breakthrough of e-mobility. It makes clean individual mobility accessible to millions of people and is a milestone for our company on the road to becoming climate-neutral by 2050”"

ZWICKAU, GERMANY – NOVEMBER 04: German Chancellor Angela Merkel (C) visits the assembly line of the new Volkswagen ID.3 electric car accompanied by Herbert Diess (L of Merkel), head of Volkswagen Group, and Saxony Governor Michael Kretschmer (2nd from R) at the Volkswagen factory on November 04, 2019 in Zwickau, Germany. Volkswagen launched assembly of the car at the Zwickau plant today. A spokesman said the numbers of vehicles finished per day will gradually be ramped up, from a current 6 to over 50 by the end of the year, and then much higher numbers in 2020. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
ZWICKAU, GERMANY – NOVEMBER 04: German Chancellor Angela Merkel (C) visits the assembly line of the new Volkswagen ID.3 electric car accompanied by Herbert Diess (L of Merkel), head of Volkswagen Group, and Saxony Governor Michael Kretschmer (2nd from R) at the Volkswagen factory on November 04, 2019 in Zwickau, Germany. Volkswagen launched assembly of the car at the Zwickau plant today. A spokesman said the numbers of vehicles finished per day will gradually be ramped up, from a current 6 to over 50 by the end of the year, and then much higher numbers in 2020. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) /

The ID.3 is just the first of many new electric vehicles that are to come from the German giant, like the I.D. Crozz, I.D. Buzz, and I.D. Vizzion. All well and good, but I think the only one they actually need to make is the wildly cool I.D. Buggy concept that was shown some months ago. Regardless, the future of Volkswagen started yesterday and it’ll be interesting, to say the least, to see how one of the largest automakers handles their ongoing transition into the EV world.

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