VW Group moves Trinity model from Wolfsburg to Zwickau

According to a media report, the VW Group does not want to produce its future Trinity model in Wolfsburg, but in Zwickau. The originally planned construction of a second plant next to the main plant in Wolfsburg has finally been canceled, reports the "Handelsblatt" (Friday) with reference to group circles. Instead, the model is now to be built at the e-car plant in Saxony. VW would not comment on request.

According to the report, the change to the former flagship project of ex-VW CEO Herbert Diess will be discussed on Friday in the supervisory board. Group CEO Oliver Blume, who took over from Diess a year ago, had already postponed the Trinity launch planned for 2026 by at least another year and a half in order to have more time to develop the software. Since then, the company has been examining whether building a new factory in Wolfsburg would still be worthwhile in light of the new schedule.

According to the report, moving the model to Zwickau is part of a larger pact to fill the plant in the coming years. According to a report in the "Hannoversche Allgemeine" (Friday), it will also involve the Hanover and Osnabrück sites. According to the report, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles in Hanover will lose the order for another of Diess' prestige projects: the planned luxury electric models of the group's Audi and Bentley brands will not be built in Hanover after all, the newspaper writes. Originally they were to start there 2026.

Both models were part of the earlier "Artemis" project of Audi. Here, too, the start had been postponed before, and Porsche had dropped out of the project altogether in 2021. VW Commercial Vehicles did not want to comment on the report when asked.

In group circles it was said on Friday that both Wolfsburg and Hanover are to receive replacements for the withdrawn prestige models. Details were initially disclosed.