Volkswagen Group will construct a flagship electrical automobile for Audi, Porsche, Bentley in Germany, the Handelsblatt enterprise paper reported.

The automobile, codenamed “Landjet,” will roll off a brand new manufacturing line at VW Group’s manufacturing facility in Hanover, Germany, the paper mentioned in a report printed on Saturday.

The three-row, seven-seat car is being developed by Audi as a part of its Artemis Mission that’s creating new applied sciences for electrical, extremely automated cars for VW Group.  

VW Group picked its Hanover manufacturing facility, which primarily builds industrial automobiles, for the Landjet as a result of Audi’s factories are too small, Handelsblatt mentioned.

“The Landjet can go into sequence manufacturing fairly rapidly in Hanover and with much less extra effort than in an Audi manufacturing facility,” a VW Group government advised the paper.

The Hanover plant can even produce the ID Buzz, a contemporary, full-electric model of VW’s Microbus that grew to become a Nineteen Sixties icon.

The Landjet is predicted to supply a variety of 650 km (404 miles). Audi’s model would launch in 2024 and variations for Porsche and Bentley would come later. Management of Bentley is being transferred to Audi from Porsche, firm sources final month advised Automobilwoche, a sister publication of Automotive Information Europe.

It’s not clear if the manufacturing Landjet shall be a sedan or a utility car, or a mixture of each.

VW Group said on Friday that it’s going to produce three full-electric “D-SUV fashions” for different group manufacturers on the Hanover plant. VW’s press launch didn’t point out the manufacturers that may get the fashions.

Handelsblatt mentioned the manufacturing Landjet shall be a sedan that shall be a rival to the next-generation Tesla Mannequin S.

Bentley CEO Adrian Hallmark has beforehand hinted that the EV his firm plans to launch by 2025 could have an SUV shape to permit for batteries to be positioned underfloor. This is able to give the automobile more room than the model’s conventional coupes and sedans, however with a smaller footprint.

Bentley mentioned on Nov. 16 that it’s going to switch its entire model range to full-electric vehicles by 2030.