The chain's first fully manufactured electric car leaves the multinational Volkswagen plant in Landaben
Škoda Epiq is the first fully manufactured electric car in Pamplona and Volkswagen Navarra will continue to manufacture T-Cross and Taigo combustion models.
After three yearsof electrification and an investment of EUR 1 billion, the first copy of electric cars made in chain. In September, the second electric model will arrive, so that with the simultaneous production of 4 models the Pamplonese factory will have the highest production data in its history. At the Landaben plant, Counsellor Maria CHIVITE and Miekl Irujo and the Navarra officials have also joined in private event.
The multinational OVolk￮ en factory in Landaben
The first fully manufactured electric car in the chain left the Volkswagen multinational plant in Pamplona this morning.
Škoda Epiq
Volkswagen Škodain Navarre has started production in the Epiq series, the first 100% electric vehicle leaving the Landaben plant.
Škoda Epiq, third model of Volkswagen Navarra, joins Volkswagen T-Cross and Volkswagen Taigo, both with combustion engines, awaiting the arrival of the fourth model, Volkswagen ID.
On the occasion of the start of production, an event was held this Thursday at the plant attended by the President of Navarra, María Chivite; the Councillor of Industry and Ecological and Digital Transition of the Government of Navarre, Mikel Irujo; the Councillor for the Iberian Region, Andre Kleb Chief Production Officer; the Director of Production and Logistics of Auto, Andreas Dick Škoda, and the President of Volkswagen Navarra el, reported in a statement by the German multinational Michael Hobusch.
The transition to electrification has been "exemplary" for the "excellent work and commitment" of the teams, according to Hobusch, while Chivite has congratulated Volkswagen on this "historic milestone. "
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