BERLIN — Audi plans to construct its not too long ago launched This fall e-tron full-electric SUV at its plant in Brussels.

Manufacturing may begin there as early as subsequent November, Automotive Information Europe sister publication Automobilwoche reported.

Audi is including overflow This fall e-tron manufacturing in Brussels as a result of excessive demand for the SUV, firm sources mentioned. The This fall e-tron is at the moment constructed at VW’s plant in Zwickau, Germany along with the VW ID3 and ID4 and Cupra Born fashions. The EVs all use VW Group’s MEB electric-car platform.

Volkswagen Group supervisory board will make the ultimate choice on Audi’s plan at its Dec. 9 assembly to debate and ratify the group’s newest, five-year strategic plan.

The This fall e-tron can be the second EV to be constructed on the Belgian plant. The bigger Audi e-tron and its e-tron Sportback variant have been produced on the facility since 2018.

Audi additionally plans to construct a battery-powered model of its range-topping SUV, the Q8, in Brussels in 2026 to switch manufacturing of the e-tron and e-tron Sportback, firm sources informed Automobilwoche in June. The plan was later confirmed by Audi CEO Markus Duesmann.

The e-tron and e-tron Sportback are underpinned by Audi’s MLB Evo platform, which is being phased out and is being changed by the Premium Platform Electrical, collectively developed with Porsche.

Audi’s plant in Neckarsulm, Germany, had been hoping to win overflow manufacturing of the This fall e-tron.

Brussels is Audi’s solely manufacturing facility that solely builds battery-powered vehicles. It had additionally bid to supply Audi’s Artemis flagship electrical mannequin from 2024 however misplaced out when the choice was made to construct the EV at VW’s industrial automobiles manufacturing facility in Hanover, Germany.

Audi mentioned in June that it’ll section out manufacturing of combustion engines by early subsequent decade besides in China, as the corporate accelerates its transition to changing into an electric-only automaker.