The Volkswagen Trinity program -- one electric car platform to rule them all -- is in trouble with no end in sight until the next decade.
Elon Musk and Tesla get a lot of criticism, and deservedly so, for making big promises that take years longer than expected to come to fruition — if they ever do at all. Roadster 2.0 anyone? FSD that really is full self-driving? But Volkswagen is proving other companies can be guilty of overpromising and underdelivering as well. Itshas been through multiple leadership changes, restructurings, and false starts, and is still not fully up to speed.
In the interim, Volkswagen has created a new version of its existing MEB platform which will be used for an updated version of the ID.4 in 2026. In an internal document presented to the automaker’s board, executives reasoned there was no longer a need to release another larger car on the SSP platform immediately, and so pushed back the release of another ID.
Volkswagen Group makes dozens of models, from micro-cars to limousines, and sports cars to SUVs. The stuff that makes an electric car work — batteries and their management systems, inverters, regenerative braking, cooling systems, and so forth — are pretty much the same regardless of what body goes on top. Is it really possible to make one platform that can be used to build a Volkswagen ID.
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