Among the requirements of Volkswagen’s Dieselgate settlement with the Department of Justice back in 2016 was to start building electric vehicles locally at the company’s factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee. That was a reality by 2021, when we drove our first US-made VW ID.4. Five years later, VW is moving on. After mid-April, no more ID.4s will roll down Chattanooga’s assembly line, which instead will be reconfigured for the brand’s newly revealed gasoline-powered Atlas SUV.
The ID.4 was well-received when it debuted in 2021, and the model had a mostly strong 2025, selling 31 percent more than the year before. But sales of the electric VW collapsed after the Trump administration abolished the clean vehicle tax credit …
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Author: Jonathan M. Gitlin
Volkswagen stops building ID.4s in the US, has inventory “into 2027”
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