Volkswagen CFO Arno Antlitz confirmed on the company’s Q3 2026 earnings call that SSP, the next-generation EV platform for Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche, will start in 2029 and reach volume in 2030, and it’ll run on software from Rivian.
SSP, short for Scalable Systems Platform, is the single platform VW plans to eventually move its EVs onto, from small Volkswagens all the way up to Porsches, replacing the MEB and PPE platforms used today. It was first announced in 2021 with a 2026 target before software trouble at VW’s CARIAD division pushed it back, and the electrical architecture and software side now comes from RV Tech, VW’s joint venture with Rivian.
Antlitz called SSP “a highly competitive new toolkit for BEVs, with software from Rivian,” and said the goal is for SSP cars to cost the same to build as VW’s gas models.
Reuters also asked him about the report from earlier this week that VW could move mass-market European models onto the China architecture it built with XPeng. Antlitz said the Western architecture covering Europe and the U.S. was developed with Rivian, China and export markets get their own, and that basic split “hasn’t changed.” He did say VW is looking at whether some pieces of the China platform could be used in parts of Europe, so the door isn’t fully closed, but it lines up with Wassym Bensaid saying the joint venture roadmap is unchanged.
The €20,000 ID.EVERY1 lands next year on the front-wheel-drive version of VW’s current MEB platform, but it’s the first VW to use the architecture the joint venture has been building. That’ll be the first look at Rivian’s software in a Volkswagen, and I’ll share more with you all as it gets closer.
