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Volkswagen to invest $800 million, build new electric vehicle in U.S.

The German automaker, in an announcement at the Detroit Auto Show, said it is adding 1,000 new jobs and that electric vehicle production in Tennessee will begin in 2022.

German automakers have been under pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump to increase their investments in the United States.

VW will use a modular electric toolkit chassis (MEB) in Chattanooga. VW designed MEB to be the basic building block for its EVs and is intended to consolidate all of the vehicle’s electronic controls and reduce the number of microprocessors.

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