The first vehicles will be delivered to customers in the autumn.
The brand is pressing ahead with the electrification of the site. In the course of the year the company plans to increase the plant’s daily production to a total of 900 vehicles. In future, there are plans to build up to 130,000 units per year at VWCV's main plant.
With the production start of the ID. Buzz, the VWCV plant here is now the third German production site for vehicles of the ID. family.
“The ID. Buzz is a milestone in the electrification of the brand and the plant in Hanover”, said Josef Baumert, Member of the VWCV Brand Management Board for Production and Logistics. “In just eight years’ time more than 55 per cent of our vehicles in Europe will have battery-electric drive. The ID. Buzz has a leading strategic role in this”, says Baumert.
This year, VWCV is planning to produce a total of around 15,000 ID. Buzz. Up to 130,000 units of the ID. Buzz and ID. Buzz Cargo would be produced at the plant from 2024.
Since May, VWCV has produced three models at the Hanover plant. They are based on three different platforms and can have three different drives: the ID. Buzz as a battery-electric vehicle, the new Multivan as a plug-in hybrid and with conventional drive and the variants of the T6.1 with a combustion engine.
In the factory, the vehicles are partly produced on one line. “Our production method is highly complex, but it enables us to respond flexibly to customer demand”, said Baumert. Despite the many factory modifications over the past two years, production of the popular T6.1 continued uninterrupted.
The first all-electric vehicle from Hanover and new, digital systems also resulted in far-reaching new demands on the employees. During the start-up of the ID. Buzz 4,000 employees in the factory were trained for the production of the new vehicles.
“We trained our employees in high-voltage technology and also adapted our apprenticeships to the new tasks”, Baumert added. Apprenticeships offered by VWCV in Hanover include mechatronics technician for system and high-voltage technology.
