They take them off their hands. That is the most pronounced phrase in Volkswagen dealerships throughout Europe, including Spain, which do not accept orders for the ID.3 and ID.4 until the end of 2023. The firm has already covered the quota of production units of the two electric, compact and SUV.
For many it is something unthinkable, but it is an absolute reality. Two of Volkswagen’s three electric models have filled the production quota for 2022 and are terribly out of stock. A situation that affects ID.3 and ID.4whose dealers across Europe have been forced to close the tap on reserves as they cannot guarantee deliveries, noting that until the end of the year they will not be able to reopen the order listings. As minimum.
Only the recent Volkswagen ID.5 gets rid of this situation, because it has not had time to conquer all customers. But the other two, the compact and the SUV, are managing to dazzle customers, because the brand has recognized the delivery of 99,100 zero emission units at the end of Marchwith a special predilection of customers for the Wolfsburg brand’s electric cars compared to three other zero-emission representatives of the group.
The electrics of the Volkswagen Group will arrive with a dropper in 2022
Just take a look at the top five during the first quarter, and Europe being the largest market in the world in the same period, breaking an absolute record and with the aim of end the year 2022 with 700,000 electric units sold in the group’s credit account Volkswagen, despite the current circumstances with the narrow bottlenecks due to the lack of supply of the necessary wiring harnesses produced in Ukraine. Because the electricians, until now, were getting rid of the shortage of microchips.
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The fact of temporarily closing the order books is a forced situation, since the brand has no less than 120,000 units pending manufacturing and deliveries. A number that reaches 300,000 units in Western Europe alone and of all the group’s electricincluding those of Audi, Porsche and Skoda, so It is not expected that the situation will be regularized until well into 2023. One of the measures that the giant has taken is to expand production capacities, for example, the German company in Emden, which will increase daily manufacturing from May 20 and production.
In addition, the North American factory in Chattanooga will also start production of the ID.4 from the second half of the year. And that is not counting the ID.5 and Skoda Enyaq iV. One of the big problems, and which has led to this consequence, is the concentration of a large number of electrics in the German plant in Zwickau, where those from the German parent company, those with the four rings and the Spanish model are manufactured, with thousands backlog of the two Audi SUVs. A few months ago this brand decided to move the production of the Q4 to the headquarters in Brussels, subsequently backing down. Now, it seems inevitable that these two models, at least, be manufactured in Belgium in order to ease the burden on a site and meet deadlines.