3 million by 2025. The company’s total vehicle sales target has not been announced. The Group intends to shift its development and production focus from internal combustion engines to electric powertrains, and plans to launch more than 30 EVs that will range from small vehicles to an all-electric Phaeton luxury sedan by 2025. This initiative is expected to increase the percentage of EVs in Volkswagen’s overall sales up to 25%. Approximately E...

News  Updated at: 2016/06/20

VW Phaeton production ends, Transparent Factory to be repurposed Volkswagen announced on March 18 that production of the Phaeton luxury model has ended after 14 years.About 100 employees will continue to work in Dresden and 400 other employees will be assigned to Zwickau or to other Group locations.The function of the luxury car's Transparent Factory ("Gläserne Manufaktur") is to be "realigned".The Dresden location will open as a new Volkswagen ...

News  Updated at: 2016/03/22

he new Crafter plant in Poland.Approximately 50% of capex will be spent on VW‘s 28 locations in Germany.The previously planned new design center in Wolfsburg is being put on hold, saving approximately EUR 100 million, as well as the construction of a paint shop in Mexico, and the successor to the Phaeton, a pure electric model.Joint ventures in China will maintain their previously announced investment levels, planning expenditures of approximat...

News  Updated at: 2015/11/25

V with an range of 300 km (186 miles), 48V mild hybrid as well as more efficient diesel, petrol and CNG concepts.An MEB electric toolkit developed for compact segment vehicles will enable an all-electric range of 250-500 km (155-310 miles).The Board of Management has redefined the future Volkswagen Phaeton to be a pure EV with long-distance capability, connectivity and next-generation assistance systems as well as an emotional design.(VW's releas...

News  Updated at: 2015/10/15

VW to launch 20 more electric cars and plug-in hybrids by 2020 In the eve of the 66th International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt am Main, the CEO of Volkswagen Group, Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn, announced there would be 20 more electric cars and plug-in hybrids by 2020, from compact cars to the next Phaeton and Audi A8."The Porsche Mission E and the Audi e-tron quattro concept are nothing less than a quantum leap for our industry." He went on t...

News  Updated at: 2015/09/17

e-UP! by the end of the year and the e-Golf, the Golf GTE and the Audi A3 e-tron plug-in hybrid vehicles in 2015. Additional two plug-in hybrid vehicles developed for China will be launched in 2016, which will be the Audi A6 and VW brand's mid-sized vehicle. The Volkswagen Lamando, Passat, Magotan, Phaeton, Touareg and the Audi A8 and Q7 are the candidates for the Chinese plug-in hybrid market in the next few years. The Lamando is a four-door cou...

News  Updated at: 2014/11/05

al-time. With a capacity of 30 gigabytes, the integrated hard drive not only contains adequate storage space, including additional information for the European traffic network for example, but also boasts extra space for storing and playing music files in MP3 and WAV format. The RNS 810, for the VW Phaeton also features Google Earth navigation and map data taken directly from the Internet. The navigation system is manufactured for Volkswagen at t...

News  Updated at: 2011/12/14

Valeo announced that it equips the new Volkswagen Phaeton with its BeamAtic(R) Premium adaptive lighting system. (From a press release on September 30, 2010)...

News  Updated at: 2010/09/27