Volkswagen Group began talking about its Scalable Systems Platform — SSP for short — when Herbert Diess was still the CEO. It was to be the one platform to rule them all and would replace the MEB and PPE platforms for electric vehicles, according to
The SSP development process has not gone smoothly. Originally, the new Volkswagen platform was supposed to be ready by 2026. Diess wanted to build a new factory in Wolfsburg to build SSP-based cars, but that plan ended when the supervisory board put Diess out to pasture and brought in Oliver Blume to be the ringmaster of Volkswagen Group. Blume quickly mothballed plans for the new factory and set about trying to bring order out of the chaos at, the company’s standalone software division.
MEB-based EVs aren’t selling as well as expected, so Volkswagen needs to ensure that there are no further delays in rolling out next-generation electric cars based on the SSP architecture.says in the first quarter of 2024, Volkswagen Group’s electric car sales in Europe declined by 24%. The company has had toVolkswagen Group is also under pressure from investors to deliver good results. Its share price hasn’t grown much in a year. Last October, it even dipped below €100, a worrying development.
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