Volkswagen Autoeuropa

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The Volkswagen Autoeuropa Lda. is a car manufacturer in Portugal in the village of Quinta do Anjo , a municipality that is assigned to the district (concelho) Palmela according to the regional structures . Volkswagen Autoeuropa is one of the subsidiaries in which Volkswagen AG has a 100 percent stake.

history

After the signing of a joint venture agreement between the Volkswagen Group and Ford in July 1991, the two million square meter facility was built in four years, including a surrounding industrial park on which the main suppliers are located. The construction of the plant is the largest foreign investment made in Portugal . The initial investment in 2003 was € 1.97 billion, and in 2007 a further € 1.1 billion was invested in the further development and modernization of the plant. A further € 677 million is to be invested by 2018 and production and products are to be converted to the modular transverse matrix (MQB). The modernization of the plant will create a total of around 500 new jobs.

Opened in 1995 as a 50/50 joint venture, the original intention was to sell a co-designed van under three brands: VW Sharan I , Seat Alhambra I and Ford Galaxy . In the production of these vehicles, Autoeuropa almost reached its capacity limit of 172,500 units per year. When Ford left the joint venture and the product life cycle neared the end, Volkswagen took over 100% of the facility in 1999, with production falling significantly. In Volkswagen's internal bidding system, the plant had to compete with other Volkswagen plants for new models, and the plant threatened to be closed.

Finally, Autoeuropa won production of the new Volkswagen Eos in 2005 , which resulted in a load factor of 79,896 vehicles with the previous models. In 2008, production of the third generation of the VW Scirocco began . Most of the 100,000 or so wagons per year are exported and represent 4.2% of total Portuguese exports.

The plant is also participating in tenders for the production of the new VW BlueSport Roadster.

Two Federal Presidents, Christian Wulff on February 11, 2011 and Joachim Gauck on July 25, 2014, visited the plant as part of state visits together with the Portuguese President Aníbal Cavaco Silva .

The VW T-Roc has also been produced at Volkswagen Autoeuropa since August 2017 .

In April 2019, the millionth Sharan rolled off the assembly line since production started 24 years ago.

Autoeuropa currently employs 4,377 people in its plant (as of 2017), and indirectly 2,350 at suppliers in the industrial area and 3,750 at suppliers in Portugal (as of 2014).

production

year	All in all	VW T-Roc	VW Eos	VW Scirocco III	VW Sharan	Seat Alhambra
2008	094,100	-	43,534	20,472	19,703	10,282
2009	086.008	-	17,880	47,277	14,636	6.215
2010	101.113	-	22,775	45.230	23,085	10,023
2011	133,100	-	22,511	42,481	49,969	18,139
2012	112,550	-	11,138	33,620	48,399	19,393
2013	091,200	-	7,651	23,400	40.159	19,990
2014	102,250	-	6,567	23,573	49,498	22,612
2015	102.158	-	4,559	16,251	53,423	27,925
2016	085.126	-	-	11,963	41,949	31,214
2017	110.256	22,724	-	8,199	45,695	33,638
2018	223.200	173.153	-	-	30,459	19,588

The values ​​for the T-Roc 2017/2018 model were calculated using the given values.

Volkswagen Autoeuropa Lda. manufactured the Volkswagen T-Roc and Sharan as well as SEAT Alhambra models at the production site in 2018 with a total annual production of 223,200 vehicles, with the highest value in 2017 and 2018 reaching a production of 860 vehicles per day.

Model overview

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  Seat Alhambra II
  since 2010

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  Volkswagen Sharan
  since 2010

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  Volkswagen T-Roc
  since 2016

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Short presentation by Volkswagen AG.
2. ^ History of the work . volkswagenautoeuropa.pt. Retrieved December 10, 2010.
3. ^ Federal President Gauck and President Cavaco Silva visit Volkswagen in Portugalk . volkswagenag.com. June 25, 2014. Archived from the original on August 12, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 16, 2014. 
4. ↑ Federal President Wulff visits Portuguese Volkswagen plant . auto-medienportal.net. February 11, 2011. Retrieved February 11, 2011.
5. ^ Federal President Gauck and President Cavaco Silva visit Volkswagen in Portugalk . volkswagenag.com. June 25, 2014. Archived from the original on August 12, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 16, 2014. 
6. ↑ The T-Roc is good for the Volkswagen brand. wolfsburger-nachrichten.de. August 19, 2017. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
7. ↑ One million Sharan - production anniversary at Volkswagen Autoeuropa in Portugal. volkswagen-newsroom.com. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
8. ↑ Four years in advance for the T-Roc. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Friday Packet for August 24, 2017.
9. ↑ VW Autoeuropa garante produção nos próximos 5 anos . expresso.pt. January 27, 2009. Archived from the original on January 31, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 10, 2010.  
10. ↑ Autoeuropa produces corn carros em 2008 face a 2007 . oje.pt. January 27, 2009. Archived from the original on October 7, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 10, 2010.  
11. ↑ Vendas da Autoeuropa descem 4% em 2008 . jornaldenegocios.pt. January 27, 2009. Archived from the original on December 24, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 10, 2010.  
12. ↑ Autoeuropa reduced produção no primeiro trimestre de 2009 . oje.pt. January 27, 2009. Archived from the original on October 7, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 10, 2010.  
13. ↑ factos & Números. . volkswagenautoeuropa.pt. October 8, 2010. Retrieved December 10, 2010.
14. ↑ Production data for 2017 ; accessed on May 15, 2020
15. ↑ Production data for 2018 ; accessed on May 15, 2020

Web links

• Autoeuropa plant website

Coordinates: 38 ° 35 ′ 2.4 ″  N , 8 ° 59 ′ 16.4 ″  W.