Cupra will produce the Tavascan electric SUV in China

Cupra’s next 100% electric SUV, christened as
Tavascanwill be produced for export at the Volkswagen Group plant in Anhui Province, China, an advanced global innovation center for electric mobility.

The Tavascan, who has been
designed and developed in Martorell (Barcelona), will reach all markets where Cupra is present in 2024, expanding the sports brand’s electric portfolio, which now consists exclusively of the compact Born based on the MEB platform of the German consortium.

The new SUV, like the Born and the Volkswagen Group’s current zero-emission range, will also be based on this modular architecture, which is the backbone of the manufacturer’s product strategy, until it is replaced by the Scalable Systems Platform (SSP). ). at the end of the decade.

The decision to produce the Tavascan in Anhui is due to the fact that
A similar model will be built in this factory for the Chinese market with which they want to take advantage of industrial synergies. In addition, this factory has sufficient capacity and technology to start assembly in 2023.

Anhui is an example of the group’s large factories, where assembly lines are brought together with R&D, quality control, concurrent engineering and test circuits in one facility. In addition, the main battery supplier, CATL,
has a factory in the neighboring province of Jiangsu.

Heifei, the capital of Anhui province, has become one of the most important centers of technological innovation in China, the largest automotive market in the world. The Volkswagen Group does not intend to export more models than the Tavascan from its factories in the country, neither Cupra nor Seat are entering this market.

One of the industrial strategies of the Volkswagen Group is to transform its factories into multi-brand centers that group families of similar vehicles with different decals.
It is already happening in Zwickau (Germany), which has an annual capacity of 300,000 units and produces the Volkswagen ID.3, ID.4, ID.5, Audi Q4 e-tron, Audi Q4 Sportback e-tron and Cupra Born.

For the Spanish plants of Martorell and Landaben (Navarra), which will adapt to small electric models in the middle of the decade, the same is expected to happen with Volkswagen, Skoda and Cupra.

Source: La Verdad

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