VW to focus on e-car competitor Tesla “rather than on Toyota”
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
German carmaker VW will focus on competing with US e-carmaker Tesla in its home market to avoid trailing behind the US company in electric mobility, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. As Tesla shifts from offering expensive e-cars to cheaper models for the mass market, VW would “rather focus on Tesla than on Toyota or Hyundai,” VW brand manager Herbert Diess said in an interview with car magazine Automobilwoche, the newspaper writes. VW says it will introduce an “appropriate” car model in the US by 2021.
Read the article in German here.
See the CLEW factsheet Dieselgate forces VW to embrace green mobility for background.
All texts created by the Clean Energy Wire are available under a
“Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0)”
.
They can be copied, shared and made publicly accessible by users so long as they give appropriate credit, provide a
link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.