The VW Group has disclosed its aim to build as many as three million pure electric vehicles by 2025 in its ‘Strategy 2025’. This number means one of four cars leaving VW factories globally will be an EV.
As part of the big bet on electric vehicles, which could mean as many as 30 individual models being made, VW Group boss Matthias Müller said the company is studying how making batteries might become a ‘competency’ at the group. Müller suggested that, if VW’s electrification plans come to fruition, it would need around 150 gigawatt hours of battery capacity each year.
Müller said VW also wanted to be at the cutting edge of what it believed would be major shifts in the automotive industry over the next decade. Although the mainstream global car business will experience big growth in SUVs, crossovers and budget cars, the future lies in more electrification, autonomous ability and connectivity to the 'cloud'.
On the subject, VW Group will launch its first fully autonomous vehicle, which will be developed in-house, in 2021.