30-Year-Old Audi Hungaria Starts PPE Motor Production

This Tuesday, at Audi Hungaria's 30th anniversary event, series production of the new generation of electric motors for the Premium Platform Electric (PPE), which will debut in the Audi Q6 e-tron model series, was officially launched.

As a result of an investment of EUR 190.2 million, a completely new 15,000-square-meter production area for PPE drives has been built in an existing production hall, where 700 employees in three shifts produce around 2,000 electric drives for the PPE platform every day, the company says in a statement.

"Győr is the perfect location for the production of even more compact and efficient PPE electric motors," Gernot Döllner, Chairman of the Board of Management of AUDI AG, said. "With its highly skilled team, the company has already produced more than 400,000 electric drives since 2018, an invaluable experience." In addition to the PPE drives for the Audi Q6 e-tron model series, Audi Hungaria is also producing electric drives for the Audi Q8 e-tron and is building a new production unit for the Volkswagen Group's cars based on the MEBeco platform (modular electric drive concept).

"The start of production of the PPE engines in Győr is an important milestone in the ramp-up of the Audi Q6 e-tron," according to Gerd Walker, Member of the Board of Management of AUDI AG responsible for Production and Logistics and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Audi Hungaria. "I know from my own experience how committed and enthusiastic the team in Győr is, who are consistently working on the transition to e-mobility for the world's largest engine manufacturer. Audi Hungaria's vast experience in engine production and its carbon neutral balance sheet make it an indispensable part of Audi's global production network," added Gerd Walker, who was Member of the Board of Management of Audi Hungaria responsible for Vehicle Production from 2012 to 2016.