The Volkswagen Chattanooga Assembly Plant (or Chattanooga Operations LLC) is an automobile assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, that began production in April 2011, was formally inaugurated in May 2011, and employs approximately 2,000. The plant has a projected annual production of 150,000 cars beginning with a version of the 2012 Volkswagen Passat NMS, tailored to the US market. Production of the Volkswagen Atlas will commence in 2017.