Volkswagen Chattanooga won’t build its first electric SUVs until July, but the automaker already has sold out of the vehicles it will make this year because of demand and supply issues, the company said.
“All the ID.4 basically this year is sold out,” said Burkhard Ulrich, Volkswagen Chattanooga’s president of human resources, at a news conference on Wednesday.
Ulrich said the fact that the ID.4 SUV is sold out is “very encouraging.”
“It’s good for our team members,” he said. “They know they’ll be working on a car that has such a strong customer demand.”
Volkswagen’s entire group, which also includes Audi and Porsche, has sold out of electric vehicles in the United States and Europe this year via pre-orders, according to the automaker.