Volkswagen Group of America Chattanooga Operations, LLC — commonly "Volkswagen Chattanooga" — was formed in 2008/2010 as a wholly owned, single-member Tennessee LLC of Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (VWGoA), the U.S. holding arm of Volkswagen AG (XETRA: VOW3), which is majority-voting-controlled by Porsche Automobil Holding SE. It is not itself publicly traded. Per a 2024 filing with the Tennessee Public Utility Commission, the LLC was merged into its parent VWGoA effective January 1, 2024, so the named entity no longer exists as a separate legal person. Its plant is in Chattanooga, Tennessee (Enterprise South).
Operations. The site is Volkswagen's only U.S. assembly plant, opened May 2011. It assembles the internal-combustion Volkswagen Atlas and Atlas Cross Sport SUVs, and assembled the all-electric ID.4 until production ended in mid-April 2026; the second-generation Atlas (MY2027) was scheduled to start production in summer 2026. It also hosts a North American Battery Engineering Lab and serves as a training/R&D center. Company and press figures put employment at roughly 4,000–5,500 and cumulative investment at about $4.3 billion, with roughly 150,000 vehicles built in 2025. Workers voted to join the UAW in April 2024 and ratified a first contract in February 2026.
Litigation posture. This is an operating company on the defense only: 0 cases as plaintiff, 1 as defendant. It is a target of patent assertion, not an asserter.
Notable case. Neo Wireless, LLC v. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. et al. (E.D. Tenn. 1:22-cv-00076, filed March 29, 2022; transferred to MDL 3034, E.D. Mich. 2:22-cv-11404, Judge Terrence G. Berg). Neo Wireless, a Wayne, Pennsylvania licensing entity asserting patents assigned from Neocific, Inc., alleged that in-vehicle 4G/LTE and 5G connectivity features infringed six patents (including 8,467,366; 10,447,450; 10,771,302; 10,965,512). The JPML consolidated the automaker suits in Detroit over Neo's request for the Eastern District of Texas. Volkswagen settled the district-court claims in December 2023 (dismissed with prejudice January 2024) while continuing IPR and ex parte reexamination challenges at the PTAB.