As Volkswagen's $900 Million auto assembly facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee moves forward, more reports indicate that Chattanooga has good prospects to get more of the $4 Billion that Volkswagen currently has earmarked for production facilities. The Parties recently featured a report from German auto magazine Auto Motor und Sport about the possibility of the hybrid technology being produced in Chattanooga. Expanding on that report, Motor Authority reported today that there will certainly be North American production of the hybrid technology, which probably means either expanding the VW drive train assembly plant in Mexico, or the new VW auto assembly plant in Chattanooga. Since the site will be developing VW's own hybrid technology, at least some of the jobs should be research and engineering intensive.
Further, the Motor Authority article quotes VW board member Werner Neubauer as saying that additional production facilities for VW's next-generation, state-of-the-art dual clutch gears will be produced in North America, and indicates that the facility for the dual clutch will be either Mexico or Chattanooga.
If the hybrid drive train assembly plant is similar in job creation to gas-powered drive train assembly plants, it could mean 750 to 1,500 more jobs. Add the dual clutch assembly facility, and it could double the number of VW jobs announced so far. The impact will be far reaching, increasing demand not just for Chattanooga manufacturing space, but for Chattanooga retail and office space, too.
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