{"id":10227,"date":"2021-08-31T11:46:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T15:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evglobe.com\/?p=10227"},"modified":"2021-08-31T11:46:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T15:46:27","slug":"audi-ev-production-likelihood-of-us-producing-in-the-u-s-is-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evglobe.com\/2021\/08\/31\/audi-ev-production-likelihood-of-us-producing-in-the-u-s-is-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Audi EV production: “Likelihood of us producing in the U.S. is there\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
At the moment, all of Audi\u2019s EV manufacturing is done in Europe. Some of it is done in Germany (Audi Q4 e-tron<\/a>, Audi e-tron GT<\/a>), while some is done in Belgium (Audi e-tron SUV). However, Audi CEO Markus Duesmann sees the potential in U.S. EV manufacturing in the near future.<\/p>\n To be fair, Duesmann wasn\u2019t specific about what sort of manufacturing would be done \u2018Stateside but it wouldn\u2019t make sense to invest in a massive manufacturing facility for internal combustion vehicles if Audi is going full-electric in just a few years.<\/p>\n \u201cThe potential to put an Audi car, production-wise, into the U.S. is even higher than now,\u201d Duesmann told Bloomberg Television on Friday. \u201cThe likelihood of us producing in the U.S. is there.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n At the moment, Audi\u2019s parent company Volkswagen manufactures a few car here in the U.S., out of its Chattanooga, Tennessee plant. The Volkswagen Passat, Atlas, and ID.4 are all built in America. Interestingly, Audi shares the same all-electric architecture as the ID.4 \u2014 VW Group\u2019s MEB platform \u2014 which would make production of the Audi Q4 e-tron quite possible in Tennessee.<\/p>\n Audi wants to take on Tesla, the American EV giant. If it\u2019s going to do so, it\u2019s going to need to increase the range of its electric vehicles, increase the performance, and reduce the price. However, it\u2019s also going to have to improve its brand perception. Many Tesla customers are quite proud of the fact that Teslas are built in America and love that Silicon Valley is the electric vehicle capital of the world. Building cars here would help bolster Audi\u2019s reputation among American buyers.<\/p>\n