The all-new Volkswagen ID.Golf and different fashions primarily based on the Volkswagen Group’s new Scalable Techniques Platform (SSP) may enter the market later than anticipated.
In line with a German publication, Supervisor Magazin (by way of Electrive), the market launch of the Volkswagen ID.Golf has been postponed by 15 months to 2029, whereas a big SUV known as the T-Sport is not going to be prepared till 2031, three years later than initially deliberate.
Extra challenges forward of Volkswagen
Volkswagen struggles to considerably improve its present electrical automobile gross sales. The primary half of the 12 months introduced a slight decline, and now it appears that evidently next-generation fashions is perhaps launched later than deliberate.
The article says that the Volkswagen Group Board of Administration made the choice to postpone SSP-based fashions on 2 July, though there is no such thing as a official affirmation.
In line with the report, a number of causes behind the postponement exist, together with the one which has affected Volkswagen for a very long time—software program points. The all-new E3 2.0 software program structure for the SSP platform, developed in-house by Volkswagen’s software program subsidiary Cariad, is not on time.
The current announcement that Volkswagen is teaming up with Rivian on software program, via a $5 billion settlement could be an indication that the software program actually is perhaps a difficulty. There may be additionally an unofficial trace that originally the SSP would use an “Tailored E/E Structure”, earlier than switching to Volkswagen-Rivian-developed software program in early 2030.
The Volkswagen Group could have no selection however to make use of the present MEB, new MEB+ platforms, together with the MEB-Small introduced in 2021, and the brand new Premium Platform Electrical (PPE), longer than initially deliberate. The SSP was anticipated to interchange nearly all different platforms with a number of variations of SSP and unified battery cells—a minimum of that was the plan in 2021.
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