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The top topic in German TV programs today was the official start of series production at Volkswagen's plant of the ID.3 Golf. One of the many videos already available showing the production line at Zwickau, where the first cars produced in Germany more than 100 years ago took place.
From 2020 more than 1 million VW e-cars will be produced worldwide in then 10 VW factories...

https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/v ... ction=view


Volkswagen’s electric offensive is picking up speed: Today saw the official start of series production of the ID.3

The first car in the new generation of electric vehicles (EVs) – a white ID.3 – rolled off the assembly line watched by Federal Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel and Group CEO Dr. Herbert Diess. The Volkswagen Group plans to sell some 22 million EVs worldwide by 2028, thus helping EVs make the breakthrough. Zwickau has a key role to play in this endeavor: For the first time, a large car manufacturing plant is being entirely converted to e-mobility, with investments running at €1.2 billion. Zwickau is already scheduled to produce some 100,000 electric models next year. From 2021, up to 330,000 EVs will leave the assembly line each year, making the site the largest and most efficient EV factory in Europe and a trailblazer in the transformation of Volkswagen’s global production network.

“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”, Group CEO Herbert Diess said at the ceremony in Zwickau

VW is doing well, as a large manufacturer, in building plants in other countries and the work they are doing in places like Rwanda, is exemplary. All car manufacturers need to do more.

As long as VW do not claim any mileage advantage's, we can remember the lies they said about diesels,,;o)

cyprusmax47 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 9:00 pm The Volkswagen Group plans to sell some 22 million EVs worldwide by 2028, thus helping EVs make the breakthrough.

They had better build a few thousand power stations as well, to charge them. As solar and wind could not cope with that number in 8 years, up goes the CO2! Irresponsible statement!

Devil wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2019 10:06 am

cyprusmax47 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 9:00 pm The Volkswagen Group plans to sell some 22 million EVs worldwide by 2028, thus helping EVs make the breakthrough.

They had better build a few thousand power stations as well, to charge them. As solar and wind could not cope with that number in 8 years, up goes the CO2! Irresponsible statement!

The ambitious goal for Germany by 2028 are 7-8 million e-cars. In case of shortages to charge this amount of cars, Germany would import more atomic power from France than they do already in times where PV and Wind is not enough. More important is to increase the amount of fast charging stations, which today the Government and industry agreed to share the costs of installing 1 million in the next 10 years in Germany. Already enough charging points are installed in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, after Bavaria the second largest in Germany, where every 10 km one can find a charger.

Max

Yes they may import nuclear from France because the Germans are heading to phase out their own nuclear. Maybe the clever buggers who think this don't realise that France's nuclear is already overstretched as older power stations are being decommissioned and that the French may need all their kWh for their own electric cars. Same applies to Switzerland who have a decommissioning programme of their own nuclear, while their hydroelectric will weaken as the glaciers melt away.

https://www.ft.com/content/c7421fbe-f32 ... f9881e729f

The UK power generation cannot cope with more than a couple of charging cars per street. It needs the batteries to improve massively and charging to be managed much better - such as from house-based battery storage coming from solar.

Jimgward wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2019 9:55 pm The UK power generation cannot cope with more than a couple of charging cars per street. It needs the batteries to improve massively and charging to be managed much better - such as from house-based battery storage coming from solar.

The difference UK - Germany is the installed PV-Power. While in Germany in 2018 ca 46 GWp solar plants were installed and also to some extend battery stored for back-up, only 12.5 GWp solar power exists in GB.

Interesting link, showing daily variation of German PV power...
https://www.sma.de/en/company/pv-electr ... rmany.html

Max

On the TV it showed charging stations attached to lamp posts, vandals would have a field day with those.