It is not more than a couple of weeks ago, Volkswagen came out, that you had in mind to spend 370 billion dollars forward from 2023 to develop electric cars.
the Group let know, that from the year 2025, will run over one million electric cars by the factories ‘ assembly line on the year, and it left the audience with a gaping question: For what so with cars with conventional diesel or petrol engine?
The VW’s strategic commander, Michael Jost, now italesat at a conference in Germany: Already the year after, in 2026, will the group develop its latest generation of cars with internal combustion engines.
It writes Reuters.
– In 2026, we will commence the final production of an internal combustion engine platform, said Michael Jost, according to the news at the conference, which was held at VW’s headquarters in Wolfsburg.
A spokesperson has since confirmed this opinion, and elaborated that the shift happens to be able to focus fully on the production of electric cars. The group has so far presented four models, which will exclusively be available as electric cars and to be included in a new series called I. D.
Volkswagen has already developed the platform, as the electric cars to be built on, while CNN is still uncertain whether VW itself batteriproduktionen. Must the group be to buy the batteries by a subcontractor, the electric bet will be expensive for the German automaker.
The first car in the I. D. bonus veren siteler series is expected to be introduced in 2020, and it is, after all, to judge from the size of a VW Golf. The latter is available already as an electric car, but is not built on the group’s new platform.
It is not, however, mean that the new I. D. model to replace the well-liked Golf right now. During the conference in Wolfsburg, the insured is VW’s strategic commander allegedly also the audience that Volkswagen will be developing the models with internal combustion engines, so they live up to the ever more stringent environmental requirements through their life.
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According to Reuters, Michael Josts’s announcement is just the latest chapter in a strategic review, the group started immediately after the dieselskandalen began to roll in 2015.
Here was Volkswagen unveiled in to manipulate the motor control in its diesel cars, so that they could be an environmental licence appear, even though they polluted too much. A detection, which has cost the group billions of dollars and given the diesel engine such a negative reputation, that several automakers have been forced to completely drop it.
It applies, for example, competitors from Toyota, Nissan and recently Honda, which has announced that it no longer will sell cars with conventional diesel engine in Europe.
at the same time, authorities in several countries to introduce tight dieselrestriktioner or completely phase out cars with conventional internal combustion engine. In Germany it has been decided to introduce special environmental zones in the preliminary seven cities, while Norway will completely drop the diesel and gasoline vehicles in 2025.
at Home, the government has also the ambition to stop the sale of new gasoline – and diesel-powered cars in 2030.
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