VW: Main plant before approval for another model - but when will Wolfsburg get its share of the e-offensive?

The central course in the Group is set at Volkswagen's annual planning round.

At the main plant in Wolfsburg, tension is particularly high before the Supervisory Board meeting.

• At

  Volkswagen

  , it's the highlight of the year.

• On

  Friday

  the supervisory board will decide on plant occupancy and investments.

• The main plant in

  Wolfsburg

  urgently needs a new model.

Munich - The

* parent plant in

is about to

approve

another model.

"Wolfsburg is expected to be awarded the contract for an additional vehicle," said a person familiar with operations on Wednesday to Merkur.de *.

The decision for this will probably be made next Friday.

Then the supervisory board meets for its annual

round.

It decides on central strategic issues such as investments and plant occupancy.

The additional model will be another SUV based on the modular transverse matrix (

) of the core brand

, it is said.

, with around 20,000 employees in its main plant, currently builds all Golf variants as well as the

, the

and the

with combustion or hybrid drives.

Another model is to be added from 2021.

Including the employees in administration and research and development,

employs

around 60,000 people at the Group's headquarters in Wolfsburg.

Industry circles say that the new model for Wolfsburg could possibly be the

.

The seven-seater has so far been produced at the

in

in the US state of Tennessee and at

in Shanghai.

In China and other markets, the model operates under the name

.

VW: Wolfsburg should be awarded the contract for a vehicle on the MQB platform

Similar to the Seat Tarraco and the Tiguan, the

Atlas and Teramont are also based on the MQB platform for vehicles with a long wheelbase.

So far, this model was not intended for the Central European markets.

This could change now.

The discussion about the occupancy of the main plant has kept the employees in Wolfsburg in suspense for a long time.

It was only in September that VW works council chief

pointed out the falling capacity utilization and called for new models.

In the current year,

just 500,000 cars

would be built in Wolfsburg because of the

pandemic, Osterloh criticized in an interview with the Braunschweiger Zeitung.

But even without the pandemic, “no more than 700,000” cars would have rolled off the assembly line in Wolfsburg this year.

However, the plant is geared towards a higher production volume.

“We only come to a green branch from 700,000 vehicles,” warned Osterloh, who is also the Group's deputy chairman of the supervisory board.

The trend is exacerbated by the fact that the

segment is under pressure.

Therefore, an additional model must be produced soon.

"Again and again I read about a" bet on e-mobility "- a very superficial assessment. A board of directors, which is responsible for 670,000 jobs worldwide, naturally does not make any bets!", Says our CEO Herbert Diess.https: // t .co / pfZP4047uB

- Volkswagen Group (@VWGroup) November 5, 2020

In addition, the influential employee representative called for a purely electric car for Wolfsburg in the medium term.

A corresponding decision is not yet to be expected on Friday.

“This is a topic for

in November 2021,” says Wolfsburg.