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US FE Delivery Update or Rumor?

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#1 ·
My EV specialist at the VW Porsche dealership (Sarasota Florida) informed me that my FE expected delivery should happen in March. He stated a ship that was originally scheduled for shipment of Porsches was changed to take on US FEs for March deliveries. He stated they were also informed the dealer ID4 demos would be after delivery of customer orders. Will wait and see!
 
#2 ·
Wonder if that vessel is the Cicero. It left Emden on Jan 27 and due into Baltimore Saturday, Feb 13 without calls at Halifax and Davisville. The 17 voyage is unusually long (seems it be waiting for berth availability after Mediterranean Highway Mexico offload).
 
#3 ·
Are there anymore thoughts on the cars in the probable Davisville picture? I have a hard time thinking that they are demo cars, I would not make them FE's as those won't be able to be sold to new customers. Maybe it's not a full boat load that we see in the parking lot, but they are bringing them over in 2+ shipments? Waiting on software? Not enough parking at the port or too expensive? Or we could be totally wrong!

Erick what about the Aristotle heading for Emden now? Due in there on the 10th and then back to Davisville on the 24th with what looks like VW/Audi units? Cicero is due back to Davisville on 5 March with VW(mex) units

It's times like there where I really need real-time satellite imaging....
 
#4 ·
I'm curious about capacity at Davisville, for either long-term storage or large volume vehicle prep (if software is what they are parked for). What I can see of Volkswagens in Davisville imagery seems like a capacity of hundreds, where all of the images I've seen of Sparrow's Point lead me to believe it's many thousands (and the processing facility looks very large as well).

There seems to be frequent references to the Cicero in Porsche forums. If that was the aforementioned vessel change for Porsche, these could be very important offloads in Baltimore and Houston (for us West Coasters).
 
#20 ·
FWIW... in late December my dealer said I was 105 of first 500 "to be delivered" in my region, I live in central Maryland. Could be my car is sitting in Baltimore as I post.
Really getting tired of waiting on any news. Maybe my 2013 Jetta hybrid sel with 44k miles, which I really like, is worth keeping. It's not like I do a lot of driving.
 
#22 ·
FWIW... in late December my dealer said I was 105 of first 500 "to be delivered" in my region, I live in central Maryland. Could be my car is sitting in Baltimore as I post.
Really getting tired of waiting on any news. Maybe my 2013 Jetta hybrid sel with 44k miles, which I really like, is worth keeping. It's not like I do a lot of driving.
Go take a drive to Sparrows Point off 695 and park off to the side with the right telephoto lens and get some pictures. My friend said they definitely have some there but they are technically not allowed to take pictures of them. I am happy waiting until all the snow is gone and wouldn't be upset if mine is not there yet.
 
#33 ·
It will be the March 17th, VW Goes Green ID.4 release to the masses. Honestly, if they do that, it was an idea I shot to an acquaintance within VW that is the E.V. program manager a few months ago. As far as what I can see, there is at least 40 rows with 3 ID.4's in each row. Then there is a another line with 50 or 60 rows, again 3 ID.4's in each .
 
#44 ·
I have searched on a number of what look like configuration strings. For example, this VW page has 6 instances of my equivalent of the same string (found it with google). I took it as a configuration. It could be the date of the configuration? Or, maybe they started to build that configuration in October? I doubt it is our build date, but who knows.

I have lost confidence in the idea of the portal following our individual builds. I think those who have said large blocks or all would advance at the same time are probably correct.

Or, worst case. The portal is fine and works as advertised, and my ID.4 is not even built yet (early side of second round because I canceled my first FE and came back in Jan for round 2.). Or, they may push them all at once with ME 2.1.
 
#42 ·
When I exchanged emails with eMobility in October regarding the illuminated logo, they stated they could not include them because required wiring wasn't available for the first units produced.

This could be a date related to manufacturing.
 
#43 ·
When I exchanged emails with eMobility in October regarding the illuminated logo, they stated they could not include them because required wiring wasn't available for the first units produced.

This could be a date related to manufacturing.
That would be interesting. That was before I put the $400 down. Unless it is an overall date for the start of production of the model and not my specific car.
 
#45 ·
Interesting, there is a "requested date" variable. The one associated with my reservation is 2020-11-10. This would have put the original manufacturing date in line with the initial December delivery timeframe.

The code seems to support displaying images based upon configuration. It just seems that they are defaulting to Dusk Blue Metallic (paint=2PA1, fabric=ME). My hunch is that the portal is designed with the intent to display the actual configuration, but the availability of representative vehicles don't currently permit this (maybe Covid).
 
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