Volkswagen to Electrify 300 Vehicle Models by 2030

Equally the name suggests, Roadmap E puts Volkswagen on class for a future dominated by electrical cars. Every automobile made by the VW Grouping umbrella - including Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Seat, and Skoda - volition somewhen have a fully or partially electrical counterpart and 80 new all-electrical vehicles will be on the market by 2025.

Maybe mindful of the emissions scandal of 2022, Matthias Müller, chairman of Volkswagen's board of direction said: "Nosotros have got the message and we volition deliver. This is not some vague annunciation of intent. Information technology is a stiff self-delivery which, from today, becomes the yardstick by which we measure our functioning. The transformation in our manufacture is unstoppable. And we will lead that transformation."

In order for Volkswagen to brand enough batteries for the 300-odd models across the entire range, it'south going to need some gigafactories. Volkswagen says information technology'll need more than than 150gWh (gigawat hours) of capacity every year by 2025 - equivalent to at to the lowest degree four gigafactories - and that'south merely for its own electric fleet.

$24 billion is being invested in new vehicle platforms, upgrading infrastructure and the training of staff. Looking ahead, there's a longer-term strategy which aims to run across Volkswagen building cars with solid-land batteries. To attain this, it'due south looking for partners in Europe, the US, and People's republic of china, putting out to tender a string of contracts worth $sixty billion.

Volkswagen says this is 1 of the largest procurement projects in automotive history and represents a marked alter of tone from last yr when Müller said that ICE (internal combustion engine) cars were still "important."

Different Volvo, which already pledged to only sell cars with electric motors from 2022, VW isn't putting Ice on ice but still. Müller added that while Roadmap Eastward represents a thou future vision, the Grouping volition go on to make traditional fuel cars "for the time being."

It volition ultimately be "up to customers to decide how fast [electric cars] will gain widespread acceptance," while Volkswagen continues to offer "the entire powertrain spectrum – from conventional to fully-electric – to enable sustainable and affordable mass mobility."

To avoid a future Dieselgate, all new diesel fuel engines going forward will come up with SCR catalytic converters fitted as standard and from 2022 onwards. Significant improvements in consumption and emissions are promised.