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Wolfsburg (dpa) - Volkswagen is driving the development and production of its own electric model for the Wolfsburg headquarters much earlier than initially planned.
The central “e-volume model”, which is largely independent of the new ID family, could be located in the Group's main plant from around 2025.
VW wants to pull together expertise - similar to the subsidiaries Audi, Porsche and Bentley with their "Tesla Fighter" for the upper class in Hanover.
The works council also considers the plans to be an important project for the home locations.
The group had already indicated the project on Monday evening after the most recent special meeting of the supervisory board.
In response to pressure from CEO Herbert Diess, the inspectors spoke about top personnel - but it was also about further investments, which works council chief Bernd Osterloh was apparently able to assert.
Originally, the electric model for Wolfsburg was not supposed to be an issue until next autumn.
Moving forward is considered a concession to the employee representatives, which have long been demanding more models for the headquarters.
In the previous plans for a medium-term complete conversion in the direction of e-mobility, such as in Zwickau, Emden or Hanover, this had not gone away.
The car should already be based on the successor to the current MEB system and could produce at least 300,000 units per year, according to company circles.
Volkswagen wants to attack the US rival Tesla with further electric models.
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At an online event with managers, Diess also went into more detail about considerations for a core role of software and IT in corporate management.
"We believe that we also have to strengthen ourselves in IT with our own board department, in the medium term," he said, according to information from the participants.
Basically, this requirement has been around for a long time.
VW is currently expanding its internal “software organization” - the main goal is to increase the proportion of self-programmed systems for cars and systems.
The first head of the division, Christian Senger, was replaced by Audi boss Markus Duesmann shortly after the start of the unit in the summer.
Senger is now in charge of the development of autonomous driving, which is docked with the VW commercial vehicles in Hanover.
Among other things, Audi is responsible for the “Artemis” project within the Group, in which a new wiring system is being developed for vehicles from the VW Group.