Volkswagen’s electric Offensive

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The world’s biggest car company wants to accelerate the transition to a provider of electric cars. For this purpose, the Supervisory Board shall be held on the Friday the green light for the Plan is the group chief Executive Herbert Diess.

Volkswagen wants to keep the transition to electric mobility with his prominent Position in the car industry. “We will be cheaper than Tesla and we have the large economies of scale,” said group chief Herbert Diess to the industry newspaper Automotive News. The platform is booked “already for 50 million electric cars, and we have procured batteries for 50 million electric cars”.

A spokesman explained on Monday that there were long-term plans. On the modular electric, modular (MEB), the technical Basis of the new car that was only designed for the production of tens of millions of battery-powered vehicles. To meet the needs of battery cells, which is associated with the ambitious program, Volkswagen advertised in the past year, a procurement volume of more than EUR 50 billion – one of the largest in the industry.

Will be built in the Emden VW plant on the North sea coast of the Passat. That’s about to change, according to group chief Diess.

VW in Emden, the electric future

The world’s biggest car company wants to accelerate the transition to a provider of electric cars. For this purpose, the Supervisory Board shall be held on the Friday the green light for the Plan is the group chief Executive Diess, in the next few years, three large plants, to switch to the production of battery-driven vehicles – two more than previously planned.

The little-sought-after medium-sized car Passat to be moved from Emden in a Skoda factory in the Czech Republic. The plans for Emden, to leave it there in the next few years an electric car for under 20,000 euros from the tape roll. So VW wants to offer the US electric car maker Tesla by the forehead, pushing with the Model 3 in the mass market. In the past year, Volkswagen is driving ahead with the world’s 10.7 million vehicles sold by the competition.

Battery cells are the key

In order to have the planned increase in the number of E-Mobile sufficient energy storage available, negotiated Volkswagen according to insiders, an entry into a battery cell manufacturing, in partnership with the Korean battery cell manufacturer SK Innovation.

Obviously want to keep the lower Saxony but there are also other options open and do not rule out participation in a consortium, the Federal economic planning Minister, Peter Altmaier.

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Battery cells ‘Made in the EU’?

Peter Altmaier, and EU energy Commissioner Maros Sefcovic informed on Tuesday in Berlin about their plans for the production of battery cells in Germany and the EU. The two speak in the context of a two-day conference on electric mobility, which ends on Tuesday. In the centre of issues such as the competitiveness of Europe in this area and support for the regions in which the exit strategy from Coal jobs will be lost.

Sefcovic had been pre-declared, the EU Commission’s strut in the area of battery cells according to independence and a leading Position. Already in September Altmaier announced after a Meeting with Sefcovic, a battery cell factory will be built in Germany.

Because of the growing number of electric cars in Europe, demand for batteries as well as battery cells increases in the coming years. Germany is aiming for a battery-cell production of the new Generation. A consortium of private companies is required. Currently, VW, Daimler and BMW buy cells in Asia and assemble them self to large batteries for E-cars.

Golden times for the auto industry?

Volkswagen chief Diess made it clear in the “Automotive News”Interview, that he sees great opportunities for the auto industry. “Today, Internet companies are the most valuable companies in the world. My prediction is that it will be in ten or 20 years ago a car company.” Because in the end, the people would have to spend for mobility, more money than for communication. “We ourselves are a kind of Internet industry,” said Diess.

dk/qu (dpa, rtr)