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Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) intends to sell electric cars for less than 20,000 euros ($22,836) and protect German jobs by converting three factories to make Tesla (TSLA.O) rivals, a source familiar with the plans said.
VW and other carmakers are struggling to adapt quickly enough to stringent rules introduced after the carmaker was found to have cheated diesel emissions tests, with its chief executive Herbert Diess warning last month that Germany's auto industry faces extinction.
Plans for VW's electric car, known as "MEB entry" and with a production volume of 200,000 vehicles, are due to be discussed at a supervisory board meeting on Nov. 16, the source said.
Fallout from cheating on diesel emissions tests continues. If German automakers, of which VW is the largest, switch to electric vehicles (EVs), will other car companies have to follow suit?
(Score: 3, Informative) by tizan on Friday November 09 2018, @08:58PM (1 child)
VW damaged new diesel engines reputation.
In fact new diesel cars made after 2016 for the US market are cleaner particulate wise than most GDI gas engine cars !
e.g
https://phys.org/news/2017-07-diesel-gas.html [phys.org]
So ban gasoline engines first if diesels have to go !
Most vehicles with DEF meets EPA requirements easily...and in fact the requirements is going to ships in 2020...it is not hard to meet ! It is an argument for car makers to make more money quickly.
VW was claiming that they could have low NOx emission without DEF fluid...you can but at much lower HP power and worst gas consumption (as proven by their cheats).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @08:58PM
>> In fact new diesel cars made after 2016 for the US market are cleaner particulate wise than most GDI gas engine cars !
The GDI [wikia.com] vehicles are still cleaner than anything from NOD [wikia.com].