There is a walk in the water pipes at the Volkswagen this week.
on Monday ordered the German automotive group Reuters know that it will produce 50 million electric cars on the new MEB-platform, which was presented earlier in the year. To put that number in perspective, then drove the Volkswagen around 10.7 million cars from its factories in 2017.
Later the same day revealed the VW director Herbert Diess as for Automotive News that there are plans for a whopping elbilsfabrik in China.
– last week I was in China. We agreed to initiate the establishment of a new factory solely to produce electric cars, said Herbert Diess, who can rejoice in the fact that such a plant already exists in Germany.
on Wednesday, it was again Reuters which was the first out. This time with the news that Volkswagen will transform three of its existing factories in Germany, so also they can help to reach the goal with the ambitious goal of 50 million cars.
There is talk about the factories in Emden, Hanover and Zwickau.
the Push is scheduled to begin in 2020, and already in the year 2025, it is supposed, that more than one million new electric cars will roll out on the roads per year.
According to Quartz is Volkswagen’s strategy aimed at offering electric cars in a price range where Tesla, which does not have the same economies of scale, can not be with. Where Tesla has just launched a cheaper version of the Model 3 to 45,000 dollars (equivalent to approximately 300.000 kroner), so VW is on the stairs with an electric car to 23,000 dollars (about 150,000 dollars). It writes The Drive.
In another article from the same media can be read, that Volkswagen has put 56 billion u.s. dollars (equivalent to approximately 370 billion) to the page to purchase the elbilsbatterier. If you ask at BMW, the amount is however too low to produce 50 million cars.
The first car in Volkswagen’s electric I. D.-series will be launched in 2020. The car is going to be the size of a Golf and get a range of 400-600 kilometers.
Several media outlets are watching Volkswagen’s bet on electric vehicles as an attempt to repair the damage to the reputation of the group led, after dieselgate scandal began to roll back in september 2015.
Friday, meet the powerful men in the VW board to approve the changes. It is expected that this will be given further details on how the transformation of Volkswagen is going to take out.