Volkswagen signs e-vehicle startup as first partner for production platform
FRANKFURT - Volkswagen has signed German start-up e.GO Mobile as the first external partner for its modular platform for electric vehicles (EV), as it seeks to simplify production across a variety of models.
The partner will use VW's so-called MEB production system to "bring e-vehicles to market that complement Volkswagen's model offering," the carmaker said in a statement.
A specific vehicle has yet to be decided on jointly, it added.
The VW brand's strategy chief Michael Jost said in a newspaper interview in January the group was in advanced talks with competitors over opening its modular EV production platform to rivals.
The platform seeks the cost advantages of large production numbers by standardizing as much as possible even across very different models.
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