“Volkswagen wants to step on the gas”

Volkswagen has launched a cooperation with utility E.ON, Gazprom, Total and other companies to increase Germany’s fleet of vehicles powered by natural gas tenfold to one million by 2025, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “Its short-term availability makes natural gas an important component of our overall strategy for eco-friendly mobility of the future,” said Ulrich Eichhorn, head of Volkswagen research and development, in a press release. “Owing to the addition of methane from renewable resources, the propellant can gradually become even greener. This makes it an important constituent of the energy revolution in the transport sector in the long run, too.”

Read the Volkswagen press release in English here.

For background, read the CLEW factsheet Dieselgate forces VW to embrace green mobility.