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Volkswagen I.D. Neo: “Today’s price level is unstoppable”
Volkswagen Supervisory Board boss Hans Dieter Pötsch expects because of the necessary switch to electric cars with sharply rising prices for small cars. “Today’s price level can not be maintained if these cars are equipped with electric motors,” he told the “Welt am Sonntag”. “Therefore, it will inevitably lead to significant price increases in the small car segment.”
The first as pure Electric car designed Volkswagen Show stock market chart, the model I.D., will be available from 30,000 euros, announced Pötsch. However, customers would have to accept a few drawbacks. So lie the range of many electric cars currently only between 300 and 400 kilometers – significantly less than gasoline or diesel.
In the past week, VW sales chief Christian Dahlheim had already warned against increasing car prices because of stricter limit values for CO2 emissions. He spoke of increases in material costs in the order of an average of up to 3000 euros per vehicle. This should then also affect the prices in the car trade.
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In the future, the question will be asked whether people with low incomes can afford their own car, said Pötsch. This has taken a back seat in the definition of new CO2 limits. Similarly, Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess had expressed shortly before Christmas and warned that not least because of the still relatively expensive batteries for electric cars The entry into electric mobility for many people could even be “unaffordable”,
But there is no alternative to the electric car, affirmed Pötsch. Volkswagen will massively invest in the construction of traction batteries, said the chairman of the supervisory board. So far, the Group also maintains a pilot plant for cell production.
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