Ingolstadt is where Audi has its headquarters and its biggest factory, on a single campus in Bavaria that also holds design and technical development. The company arrived in 1949, when Auto Union was re-established there after its Saxon plants were lost at the end of the war. Volkswagen bought the business in 1964 and revived the Audi name for the cars built on the site.
The plant now runs a mixed line of combustion and electric models. The A3 is built there in full, joined by the Q6 e-tron from 2023 and the A6 e-tron from 2024, both on the PPE platform Audi developed with Porsche. Q3 production is split with Audi Hungaria in Győr: the bodies are made in Hungary, then painted and assembled in Ingolstadt. The Q2 ran from 2016 to April 2026 and finished on 887,231 cars.
The next model is the A2 e-tron, an entry-level electric compact whose production starts in autumn 2026, ahead of a world premiere in the same season. Unlike the two electric Audis already on the line, it uses Volkswagen Group’s MEB architecture rather than PPE.
