Link: https://gizmodo.com/volkswagen-shuts-down-tennessee-plants-ev-production-at-the-worst-possible-time-2000744723

On Thursday, the company announced that its assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, will stop producing the company’s fully electric SUV ID.4 starting mid-April. Instead, the focus will shift to producing the new generation of Atlas models, a best-selling gasoline-powered SUV.

I really hate it here sometimes

Is this so that they won’t compete against Scout?

VW will hate this decision too

The US regime hates everything electric, solar, or wind driven energy. They are going strong on oil and coal. Remember Trumpski made beautiful coal part of the tariff negotiation with Europe?
Soon steam powered cars are back.
Meanwhile China invested over 1 billion dollars in renewable energy just in 2025.

https://hive.blog/hive-167922/@cryptoandcoffee/china-invested-1-trillion-on-renewable-energy-last-year-dqc

Audi is even building specific EV's for China that are not available overseas.

choo choo bitches... 😮‍💨

Devils advocate, it could be because the ID.4 is terrible? This is anecdotal, but yea.

I have a friend who is an OUTSTANDING car mechanic, the shop he owns/started has everything from VW to Ferrari. He's been doing this since the 90s.

He has an ID.4 he bought to daily drive to said shop. He talks a lot about how big of a piece of shit the car is. Like every single time I see him it's a new complaint. I've personally seen panels just start falling off, the infotainment is always janky, you have to manually turn on the A/C and can't even do so when in reverse. The list goes on.

He legit has one single compliment, that his AWD model has outstanding acceleration. Which is nothing special for an electric car...at all.

China absolutely destroying cars made in America. Our industry propped up so hard by tariffs preventing those far superior cars making it over here. And those tariffs date from the Biden days.

Likely this is a bigger role than anything.

I pretty much only drove VWs whole life.

I can get a used Chevy Bolt or used ID4 for roughly the same price.

Should be picking up the Bolt next week

Got a used RAV4 Prime. Gets me to work in back in EV mode.

VW really fucked up with their EV strategy.

Scout would have to actually deliver a vehicle for that to be a concern

All of that plus the substantial price tag and their stupid subscription service.

I would have been very interested in an electric VW(loved my old Passat), but they completely botched the rollout of their ID series.

Got an ID 4. Janky af touchscreen/software, everything else is solid. No complaints other than the software, and apparently past 2023 models this is fixed. Imo it's a really good car for the price I paid. It hasn't locked me in the car and exploded so that's a big bonus.

They should hate the decision to build a piece of shit EV.

Takes 3 seconds to find complaints from ID4 owners.

Where do you get the idea Chinese cars are "superior"? Youtubers counting cup holders and square inches of screens?

Talk us in ten years and count how many Chinese EVs are still on roads.

Count how many American cars are still on the roads in the same time. I don’t think you’re gonna find the answers to be much better.