Ingolstadt is sourcing the electric motors for the new Premium Platform Electric (PPE) technology platform from the world's largest powertrain plant in Győr, Hungary. Audi Hungaria manufactures electric motors for the PPE on three newly installed production lines. The motors are then transported to Ingolstadt by the transportation and logistics company DB Cargo with zero emissions.
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00:00 [Music]
00:18 Here you can see the assembly line for the new Q6 e-tron drive in Gier.
00:22 The line was built not by an external third-party company,
00:25 but in collaboration with Audi's in-house toolmaking department.
00:29 This gives us a fresh perspective through which we can examine various aspects
00:33 and also address them anew.
00:35 You can see this, for example, in the way that automation is implemented
00:38 in the form of robots at every stage of the assembly line.
00:42 This helps us to avoid a patchwork of different technologies.
00:46 Audi Hungaria is the biggest drive factory in the world today.
00:50 Every year we manufacture around 1.7 million drives,
00:54 around 100,000 of which are electric drives.
00:57 The latest generation of e-drives are the premium platform electric drives,
01:01 which represent a new milestone for us on the road toward electrification.
01:06 [Music]
01:14 The Q6 e-tron is our next major step.
01:17 In the period from 2022 to 2023, Audi Hungaria trained up around 2,000 employees
01:23 as part of the e-mobility transformation process.
01:27 The challenge we faced with the PPE was that we had to build expertise
01:31 in different and, for Audi Hungaria, new areas of competence.
01:35 For the first time in the history of Audi Hungaria,
01:38 we're manufacturing the components for complete transmission systems.
01:42 [Music]
01:44 These innovations and new trends are giving rise to new job profiles in drive production,
01:49 such as specialist engineers for gearing technology, thermo-treatment and laser welding.
01:55 Sustainability is essential when it comes to logistics, too.
01:59 We use green trains to deliver our PPE drives to Ingolstadt,
02:02 where they are then installed in the Audi Q6 e-tron.
02:06 To embody the spirit of sustainability and transformation,
02:09 we use the existing infrastructure.
02:12 We have already taken over more than 17,000 square meters of space,
02:16 originally designated for ICE vehicles.
02:20 And this is how we created an assembly line with more than 80 automatic and semi-automatic stations
02:25 and a little over 100 jobs.
02:28 Built by Audi for Audi.
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