VW's Approach to Electric Vehicles

Oct 24

Oct 24 VW's Approach to Electric Vehicles

Autoweek has a great story today by J.P. Vettraino about Volkswagen’s engineering approach to large scale and low cost production of electric vehicles:

Volkswagen intends to re-assert itself as builder of the people’s car, now with electric propulsion, so it’s probably fitting that the company plans to do so with rear-drive, rear-motor vehicles -- just like the original Beetle.
In the wake of Dieselgate, and maybe partly because of Dieselgate, Germany’s largest car builder is ready to unleash seriously ambitious electrification plans, and not in 10 years nor even five. It all starts next year, and VW expects to sell at least 150,000 plug-in, electric-only vehicles annually by 2020.

Whatever else you want to say about VW, the details in this article make it clear that they are putting a tremendous amount of work into this EV push.