Volkswagen does not sell any electric vehicles to the average emissions of the range at the bottom, and to get Eu fines to be avoided, according to one strategist, from the brand’s in a conversation with Automotive News Europe on Tuesday.
According to the productstrateeg of the Volkswagen Group, Michael Jost, such a strategy in the transformation, and, therefore, the business model of the brand in the future will only get in the way. “We are seeing electric cars not as a way to get in a vehicle with a combustion engine is to be able to continue to sell to them.”
as of 2020, it may be a new car of any brand from an average of 95 grams of CO2 per kilometer of emissions. For each and every gram is exceeded, subject to a fines of 95 euros, which is a relatively old model range to miljardenboetes can be made.
Volkswagen is set according to the Biot-aware high-in an electric car, so that the type of vehicle, faster is profitable, you can make it. The brand wants to be himself, as it were, to the block. “This means that we will, in the medium term, an economic boost for the car’s internal combustion engine to sell it in favor of the electric car.”
Despite the fact that electric vehicles are due to the reduced number of parts, easier to produce, did they not, in the long term region will be lost. “There have been, for the construction of an electric car is less hands-on in the production line are needed, however, on the other hand, there are new features added. We want to make our own accupakketten to sell a mobile electric vehicle charging points and offer wallboxes for a house to sell,” says Jost, in a conversation with Automotive News Europe.
