Volkswagen-Chattanooga has announced it’s expanding with the promise of an eventual 1000 new jobs to the area. Monday, executives with the company stated in Detroit that it will launch an $800 million investment into electric vehicle technology. Chattanooga will be the first manufacturing facility in North America that will produce vehicles using Volkswagen’s modular electric toolkit chassis or MEB. The first Volkswagen electric vehicle will roll out in 2022. Volkswagen’s Chattanooga facility is more than three million square feet and situated on 1,400 acres. In 2011, the Chattanooga plant became the first and only automobile manufacturing facility in the world to be certified LEED Platinum. The Volkswagen midsize Atlas SUV and Passat sedan are currently built in Chattanooga. More than 100,000 Atlas SUVs and 700,000 Passats have been manufactured at the plant.