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VW Responds to Diesel Scandal, Says “the Future is Electric”

posted by CoolHand on Friday October 16 2015, @01:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the oh-woe-is-das-auto dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

We're almost at the end of the first month of the Volkswagen scandal, which now includes 11 million cars and Leonardo DiCaprio. VW's US boss has testified to Congress, blaming a few rogue software engineers. All the while, questions have raged about VW Group's future: which projects are safe, which ones are on the chopping block, and how exactly will the company recover from this?
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VW's board has finally started to answer some of those swirling questions. For starters, there's going to be much more emphasis on electrification. Electric vehicles and hybrids have played more of a bit part at VW, compared to Toyota, GM, and domestic rivals BMW and Mercedes-Benz. That's going to change with a standard electric architecture that can be used across multiple vehicles and brands.

VW Group isn't devoid of hybrid and EV know-how. Audi's Le Mans program has taught it a lot about high voltage automotive systems, and Porsche has a wealth of experience from the 918 Spyder, Panamera Hybrid, and even the 919 Hybrid racer. VW would be smart to leverage all these programs.

VW is the largest car company in Europe. This is what sudden, disruptive technological change looks like.

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  • (Score: 2) by pe1rxq on Friday October 16 2015, @03:38AM

    by pe1rxq (844) on Friday October 16 2015, @03:38AM (#250397) Homepage

    I live in the Netherlands, so I don't know the average roof area on american homes, but I get about 2/3 of my electricity consumption from about half of my south facing roof area.
    If I used all of it and maybe a little bit of non-optimal placed roof I can easily produce more electricity than I'll need by quite a margin.
    If everybody did this it would still be a huge area, but we probably already own most of it and are not doing anything usefull with it anyway.

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  • (Score: 2) by TrumpetPower! on Friday October 16 2015, @03:45AM

    by TrumpetPower! (590) <ben@trumpetpower.com> on Friday October 16 2015, @03:45AM (#250404) Homepage

    I'm in Arizona, granted, but I live in a very modest suburban home with between a third and half of the total rooftop surface area covered in panels. And I generate half again as much electricity as I use -- enough that I'll be able to power an electric vehicle when I finally get one.

    b&

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