Volkswagen Group Aiming To Produce 3 Million Electric Vehicles In 2025 — How Might It Get There?

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 05:54:29 +0000

Volkswagen Group has been spending a lot of time these days focused on its electrification plans — or e-mobility, as they call it in Europe. Some take this as simply PR, but I think the sales targets are real and we know the company has launched an initial electric car factory and is investing tens of billions of euros into batteries and EV development

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Volkswagen Increases 2023 & 2025 ID Production Targets

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 09:21:34 +0000

Angela Merkel speaks at ZwickauPreviously, Volkswagen announced an intention to produce and sell 1 million fully electric ID vehicles in 2025. The target year for that is now 2023, while the 2025 target has increased to 1½ million

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Volkswagen Increases 2023 & 2025 EV Production Targets

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 09:21:34 +0000

Angela Merkel speaks at ZwickauPreviously, Volkswagen Group announced an intention to produce and sell 1 million fully electric vehicles in 2025. The target year for that is now 2023, while the 2025 target has increased to 1½ million

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Volkswagen Unveils Automatic EV Chargers For Parking Garages

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 21:40:08 +0000

Volkswagen automated charging systremVolkswagen is working on an automated EV charging system for parking garages to solve the conundrum of where to charge your electric car when you have no access to a charger of your own.

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Tesla Model 3 & Plug-In Hybrids Boom In November In Europe

Credit to Author: Jose Pontes| Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 04:00:10 +0000

The European passenger plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market landed some 55,000 registrations in November (+44%), with the Dutch market and plug-in hybrids (+80% year over year, or YoY) pulling the market up the most, while fully electric vehicles (BEVs) were waiting for the 2020 flood (+23%, their lowest growth rate since June 2018)

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Volkswagen Has “Massive Difficulties” With ID.3 Software, Previews ID.7 Bulli

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2019 23:40:30 +0000

Volkswagen ID.3 launchReports in the German press say Volkswagen is having “massive difficulties” with the software used in its ID.3 electric cars. And the electric minibus will be called the ID.7 and arrive in 2022.

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BMW i3, Renault Zoe, Tesla Model 3 — Who Will Be Germany’s Best Selling EV In 2019?

Credit to Author: Jose Pontes| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 04:08:51 +0000

Something clicked in the German plug-in vehicle market after the summer holidays. After two consecutive record months, November saw 10,985 units registered, only the second five-digit performance in Germany’s history, after the record 11,926 units of October. It seems Europe’s e-locomotive has finally been set in motion, which is a promising sign for

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Renault Zoe Still Rules France, But Plug-In Hybrids Shine In November — EV Sales Report

Credit to Author: Jose Pontes| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 03:11:59 +0000

The French plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market had 5,540 registrations in November, with fully electric vehicles (BEVs) dropping 10% year over year (YoY), to 3,201 units. However, plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) took the fast lane and were up 80%

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Electric Vehicle Models That EV Owners Considered But Didn’t Buy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 02:01:39 +0000

Perhaps the most fascinating new question in this year’s “Electric Car Drivers: Demands, Desires & Dreams” report concerned the electric vehicles people considered but didn’t buy

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Volkswagen Survey Finds Americans Want SUVs & Only SUVs. No ID.3 For You!

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 17:05:25 +0000

Volkswagen ID BuzzVolkswagen’s market research shows Americans have little interest in a 5-door passenger car like the ID.3 but plenty of interest in SUVs. So the first electric car from the company for the US will be the ID. Crozz

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