The Volkswagen group will introduce a new singular electric vehicle platform from 2025 onwards, meant to replace both the new MEB as well as the upcoming PPE electric vehicle platforms in the 2030s.
Called SSP (Scalable Systems Platform), its rollout will be used across all VW group brands as well as across numerous vehicle sectors. It will be exposed in 2024, as the platform that will underpin a next-generation all-electric Audi, dubbed “Project Artemis.”
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“In 2024, we begin to merge our electric platforms as well as synchronize them,” explained Volkswagen group chairman, Herbert Diess, at the Group’s annual monetary results presentation.
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“The SSP platform will replace the existing platforms however over a long period of time. The start-up will begin with Artemis, so 2024/2025.”
Diess hinted that the SSP wouldn’t be a new vehicle platform from the ground up, however would instead be an development of both the MEB as well as PPE modular toolkits the group has spent billions establishing from scratch.
“It shouldn’t be seen as something brand new. What we are taking is what we have got with the MEB, with expense improvements. as well as standardization of the battery will play a considerable role. This will go hand in hand with a new electronic design which will provide much higher computing power.
“SSP will ultimately be the single backbone for the group. We are speaking about beyond 2035 here.
“By the end of the decade we will be able to roll out the SSP on all vehicle classes. We will reduce complexity as well as focus on only one single battery cell from ‘23 onwards. From 2030, one cell style will cover 80 per cent of utilize situations across the Group. new chemistry as well as producing processes will reduce battery costs by 50 per cent. This will make e-cars even more affordable.”
VW’s plan for a new ‘unified’ battery cell will see the vast majority of upcoming electric vehicles move to a new extremely standardised battery system. They will utilize the exact same cell packaging with the exact same dimensions, for higher simplicity of manufacturing. expense as well as variety will no longer be determined by the size of the pack, however the cell chemistry instead.
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