Volkswagen Trinity flagship delayed to 2032, but more electric cars to come

Volkswagen Group’s long-awaited flagship model, the Trinity EV, may be delayed until 2032, six years later than originally planned.

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Volkswagen Group CEO Oliver Blume is understood to have played a role in delaying the project as he realigns product launch investments to better align the automaker’s interests. Under Blume, VW’s MEB platform, used for its ID models, and the more advanced PPE architecture used by Porsche and Audi will be used for longer periods of time.

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Volkswagen’s Trinity EV was approved by Herbert Diess, the former CEO of the Volkswagen Group. It will be an extremely important electric car for the brand, with an advanced electric powertrain and Level 4 autonomous driving technology. When Blume took over as CEO, he delayed the launch of the car by two to three years and decided not to build it at Volkswagen’s new factory near its headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany. Instead, the Trinity will be assembled at Volkswagen’s electric vehicle factory in Zwickau.

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While the launch of this striking new model has been significantly delayed, the brand has a number of new electric vehicles on the horizon. For example, the MEB+, an updated version of the existing platform, is set to be launched in 2026. In addition, the PPE architecture will benefit from a major software upgrade thanks to the brand’s new agreement with Rivian.

The Trinity will no longer be the first VW Group model to use the Scalable System Platform (SSP). Instead, the all-electric Golf will be the first VW model to use these new chassis, and a report from Handelsblatt suggests its launch has been brought forward to 2029, or possibly even earlier. At the end of 2028, an electric A4 will be introduced, which will also use SSP.

At least two more electric vehicles based on this architecture are in the works. The ID.4 successor will be based on the SSP and will go on sale in 2030, while an all-new model called the T-Sport crossover could follow in 2031.

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