According to the news from chedongxi on May 11, just now, Volkswagen Group held the 2022 shareholders' meeting online. Volkswagen CEO dis said that last year, Volkswagen achieved its financial and strategic goals and should accelerate the electrification strategy for the next year** It is understood that in 2021, Volkswagen Group's car sales decreased by 600000 compared with 2020, but it has little impact on profits.
Original title: dis shareholders' meeting expressed its determination: to engage in automatic driving with Bosch and plan to launch 8 pure electric vehicles in the United States
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On the contrary, the operating profit excluding special projects reached 20 billion euros (about 140 billion yuan), almost doubling compared with 2020.
In the next year, Volkswagen plans to improve its automobile production, battery production, charging station construction and automatic driving, expand its influence in the electric vehicle market and occupy more market share of electric vehicles.
1、 Pure electric sales promotion plan to launch 8 pure electric products in the United States
At present, Volkswagen has successfully promoted its electric vehicles in the core market.
In Europe, Volkswagen Group's pure electric vehicles account for 25% of the electric vehicle market. In addition, in the United States, Volkswagen's share of the pure electric market last year was about 8%, about twice its share of the internal combustion engine market. It can be seen that Volkswagen's pure electric vehicles are more popular with Americans than oil vehicles. And more than two-thirds of the 17000 ID. 4 buyers in the United States are new customers of Volkswagen. Therefore, this year, Volkswagen Group plans to launch eight pure electric models in the United States to meet the needs of the market.
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In addition, in China, VW's largest sales market, VW delivered about 93000 electric vehicles last year, more than four times as many as in 2020. In addition, Volkswagen has opened 120 ID. Series sales stores in major cities in China.
Dis said that in 2026, Volkswagen will also produce all electric pickup trucks and SUVs in the United States, and Volkswagen's official media has released new car sketches.
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Dis added that Volkswagen's electric vehicle business is growing faster than they expected and will soon be comparable to the profitability of the oil vehicle business. Because they are launching electric vehicle kits, building more and more production plants and selling their technology to competitors such as Ford.
2、 Six battery factories will be built and the charging will be priced uniformly
In the process of electric transformation, Volkswagen will continue to improve the reusability of the platform, improve battery technology and expand the scale of battery factories.
Volkswagen plans to produce 40 million vehicles on the SSP platform (scalable systems platform), which requires reducing the complexity of vehicle production. Volkswagen has replaced more than 30 parts with a large casting in the Kassel pilot project. At present, Volkswagen is studying the application of this process to Volkswagen Trinity.
In addition, Volkswagen also plans to build a third battery factory in Valencia, Spain. Now there are two battery factories in selefteo, Sweden and salzgit, Germany. By 2030, with these three battery factories, Volkswagen will build six battery factories.
At the same time, Volkswagen also launched the first charging station in Dusseldorf, Germany, together with BP. The two companies plan to build 8000 charging stations in European countries by the end of 2024. In addition, Volkswagen will introduce a fixed pricing model for mass production brands at more than 300000 charging points.
3、 Cooperate with Bosch to develop pilot automatic driving shuttle bus
In addition to improvements in hardware, Volkswagen has also improved in software.
Last year, Volkswagen recruited 1000 developers for key software technology platforms. At present, these employees are promoting the development of the group's automatic driving software stack. In addition, Volkswagen has further increased its relevant expertise by acquiring other technology companies from camera software manufacturer Hella Aglaia.
In addition, Volkswagen is also cooperating with Bosch to jointly promote the development of automatic driving. "100% self-developed software is a new approach, which requires two life cycles. For the automotive industry, it may take 15 years," dis said
In terms of travel solution technology platform, Volkswagen will cooperate with agro AI to start the trial operation of self driving shuttle bus in Munich. Volkswagen's automatic shuttle service in Hamburg will be available in 2025.
In addition, Volkswagen also plans to complete the acquisition of Europcar in the second quarter of 2022. This will lay the foundation for the group's future mobile platform. An application will enable customers to easily and easily access a variety of mobile services, from a few minutes of micro mobile and car sharing to longer car rental.
▲ Volkswagen Group is building a travel platform
Conclusion: mass electrification has made rapid progress
The transformation of traditional automobile enterprises often encounter many internal difficulties, resulting in slow progress. However, the public has developed rapidly in the process of transformation. Of course, this is inseparable from years of accumulation.
However, Volkswagen's performance in all aspects is really commendable. Although it lags behind Tesla, it has to be said that Volkswagen's development layout is quite clear whether in automobile production, battery production, basic software and automatic driving software.
If the subsequent plans can be truly implemented, the public can be regarded as a successful transformation. However, if the subsequent landing can not keep up in time, it may go downhill.