VinFast, the Vietnamese automotive firm established in 2017, introduced that the primary batch of its US-bound VF 8 electrical vehicles will get to prospects beginning late February 2023, after the autos could have their software program updates.
The story comes through Automotive News, which writes that the younger automotive firm has secured 55,000 orders globally for its EVs as of December final yr, 12,000 of that are from the USA.
“The cars have been updated with the latest software. We are planning to hand over the first VF8 vehicle models to customers in the second half of February,” VinFast mentioned in an announcement quoted by Automotive Information.
The Vietnamese carmaker began delivery its preliminary batch of 999 VF 8 models in November 2022, with the objective of getting a few of these vehicles to prospects by the top of the yr. Nevertheless, this has now modified.
The corporate added in its assertion that “the second batch will be shipped to the U.S. in the second quarter of 2023,” with out specifying what number of vehicles will attain American shores.
VinFast launched two all-electric fashions on the US market – the VF 8 five-seater crossover, which begins at $59,000, and the VF 9 three-row SUV, which has an MSRP of $83,000. Each supply all-wheel drive and profit from a 10-year or 125,000-mile guarantee which incorporates the battery, based on the carmaker’s web site.
The corporate plans on promoting two further, smaller EVs in the USA, the VF 6 subcompact and VF 7 compact, with early reservations scheduled to start in March 2023 and deliveries by the top of the yr. With these two fashions, VinFast’s lineup will develop to 4 vehicles solely a yr after the launch of its first product States-side.
The automaker additionally needs to construct an EV plant in North Carolina, which might qualify its fashions for the present federal tax credit supplied to US-made electrical autos, and is awaiting last regulatory approval from native officers. VinFast pledged to speculate $4 billion within the new battery and EV plant in Chatham County and plans on making the VF 8 and VF 9 SUVs there, with manufacturing anticipated to start in July 2024.
