As the automotive industry slowly crawls into the energy transition, many of the big auto players have been trying to show us that they have been interested in electric vehicles for a long time. From a cynical perspective, it looks like they’re trying to save face after being beaten to … [continued]
The German plugin vehicle market scored 40,000 registrations in February, with both technologies rising fast (+124% year over year for BEVs and +162% YoY for PHEVs). Last month’s plugin share ended at 21% (9.4% BEV), dragging the yearly tally down slightly to 21% (9.5% BEV). Overall, this market is definitely … [continued]
This is the 4th Volkswagen factory producing MEB-based electric vehicles.
October saw the Dutch electric vehicle (EV) market return to the fast lane, jumping 228% year over year (YoY) to 9,116 units, the market’s best score ever if we exclude December months (which are prone to incentive-derived year-end rushes).
Volkswagen opened up mass-market orders for the ID.3 this week in Europe, while also opening up ID.3 1st (limited edition) ordering in the UK — mass-market ID.3 ordering starts in the autumn in the UK.
Volkswagen’s Zwickau factory is switching 100% to electric vehicles. It will produce a total of 6 models from 3 Volkswagen Group brands (Volkswagen, Audi, and Seat). Today was the last day it produced a fossil fuel vehicle, vehicle #6,049,207 from the factory under Volkswagen’s reign, a Golf R Estate.
Volkswagen is putting 150 ID.3 cars in the hands of employees to drive and gather performance data ahead of the start of deliveries in September.
With the Netherlands overall market dropping 53% year over year (YoY), the local plugin vehicle market also once again slipped into red, dropping 28% YoY in May to 2,023 plugin registrations.
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.
On January 1, Volkswagen will pull all its software development activities together under the umbrella of a new division called Car.Software. One goal is the creation of a dedicated operating system — vw.os — for all vehicles manufactured by Volkswagen Group.
