The Volkswagen Group is opening its Modular Electric Toolkit (MEB), developed in recent years, to other manufacturers.

The purpose is to achieve a significant reduction in the cost of e-mobility through the widest possible deployment of the MEB and the associated economies of scale, thus enabling broad access to individual mobility to continue in future.

The Volkswagen Group is currently projecting a first wave of some 15 million electric-only vehicles based on the MEB.

Aachen-based e.GO Mobile AG is to be the world’s first external partner to use the MEB to launch further electric vehicles in addition to Volkswagen’s model range.

Herbert Diess, CEO of Volkswagen AG (www.volkswagen-newsroom.com), said: “Our Modular Transverse Toolkit proved that we are platform experts; over 100 million of our vehicles are based on that particular platform.

With the MEB platform, we are now transferring this successful concept to the electric era and opening it to other car makers.


“The MEB is to establish itself as the standard for e-mobility. Based on the MEB, we will make individual mobility CO2-neutral, safe, comfortable and accessible to as many people as possible.”

Günther Schuh, CEO of e.GO Mobile AG, added: “We are extremely pleased thatthe Volkswagen Group offered us this co-operation.

We can contribute e.GO’s agile product development and our strength in building small-series vehicles based on extruded aluminium spaceframes. The MEB platform will make us faster, more robust and cost-efficient.”

“Volkswagen is investing almost 44 billion euros in electrification, digitalisation, mobility services and autonomous driving through to 2023, of which 30 billion euros is earmarked for e-mobility alone.

Electric vehicles are expected to account for about one quarter of the model portfolio by 2025.