The milestone was achieved across plants in Gyor, Hungary; Kassel and Zuffenhausen, Germany; and Tianjin, China. The company said the result reflects its engineering capabilities and production network, as well as an electrification strategy being expanded systematically across brands and regions.
Volkswagen Group Components’ capability network played a central role, the company said. At the Kassel plant in Germany, output of electric drive systems rose about 24% from a year earlier to more than 850,000 units this year.
Thomas Schmall, a member of Volkswagen Group’s board of management for the technical division, called the 5 million mark “a milestone” that shows the group’s leadership in both internal-combustion and battery-electric vehicle segments. He said the group, through its global development and production network, has “full control” of all elements of electric drive systems, helping speed innovation and ensure quality.
Schmall added that the group has gained additional expertise by developing its first pulse inverter in-house and is directly handling the control unit that serves as the “brain” of the electric drive system. He said that will help ensure top performance for customers and further strengthen the group’s technological independence.
The most widely used electric drive system within the group is the APP550, which is installed in Volkswagen’s ID family as well as the Skoda Enyaq and Cupra Tavascan. To date, a total of 1 million APP550 units have been produced at the group’s components plant in Kassel alone.
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