batteries are considered key components for electric cars, So far, German automakers mostly source their batteries from suppliers. The new VWCEO Herbert Diess wants to change that.
May 2, 2018, 12:45 pm,
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VW E-Golf (icon image): Is an own battery production nonsense?
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So now, after all: The German automobile manufacturer Volkswagen (VW) is considering to build the cells for the batteries of electric cars in the future. Previously, the Executive Committee had excluded its own cell production and purchased the cells.
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Batteries are considered to be the key technology in electromobility. VW does not want to buy the components from third-party manufacturers in the future. However, it was not clear how this should be implemented, said a VW spokesman the business magazine Wirtschaftswoche, The options are to build their own battery factory, to enter into a joint venture or to take over a cell manufacturer.
The works council and the state of Lower Saxony, shareholders in VW, endorse the idea. Bernd Althusmann, Lower Saxony’s Minister of Economics and VW’s Supervisory Board, said access to battery cells is an essential prerequisite for a competitive industry in Germany. Therefore, in this country not only researched on it, but also a production be built.
The change in attitude is made possible by a change at the top of the group. Since mid-April, Herbert Diess is CEO at VW. He had previously spoken in his capacity as head of the brand VW for the establishment of its own battery factory, which his predecessor Matthias Müller strictly rejected. “We certainly do not do such a nonsense,” he said in 2016.
Müller announced at the Frankfurt Motor Show last September a roadmap E on, According to VW wants to bring more than 20 pure electric vehicles on the market by 2025. This should be provided by 2022 over 34 billion euros. The aim of VW is to be the world leader in electromobility in 2025,
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