VW's electric Golf faces 9-month delay due to factory upgrades
Volkswagen's electric Golf is now facing a nine-month delay, thanks to expensive upgrades needed at the Wolfsburg factory.
This holdup also puts the electric T-Roc on pause and could keep the current Golf rolling off German assembly lines past its planned 2027 move to Mexico.
EVs accounted for 17.4% of Europe's sales by July 2025
The new electric Golf will debut VW's Scalable Systems Platform, designed for next-gen EVs and range-extender vehicles.
Even with these delays, Europe's appetite for EVs keeps growing—electric cars made up 17.4% of sales by July 2025.
Still, the classic Golf isn't as popular as it used to be: production has dropped from over a million cars in 2015 to could fall further to 250,000 this year.
VW is also teaming up with Rivian to make the new Golf more high-tech, with plans to build it at their Wolfsburg plant in Germany.