Volkswagen will invest billions of dollars in the development of electric vehicles

The German firm is planning to 2025 to offer 80 new electric cars.

The world’s largest carmaker Volkswagen has pledged to invest billions of dollars in the development of new electric vehicles and present less than 15 years, by 2030, elektroversiya all of their models.

Before the major scandal that erupted two years ago because lowering Volkswagen indicators of harmful emissions, the automaker took almost no notice of the market development of electric vehicles and unmanned vehicles.

Now the German concern intends to invest 20 billion euros in the development of electric cars, hoping to compete with Tesla and other manufacturers of electric vehicles, creating a mass market of electric vehicles.

“Companies like Volkswagen, is supposed to lead and not to trail behind,” he said, announcing the company’s plans ahead of the Frankfurt motor show, Volkswagen CEO Matthias Mueller.

The German firm is planning to 2025 to offer 80 new electric cars. So VW was the first major automaker, announced the release of electric vehicles for the mass market.

Speaking at the Frankfurt motor show, the head of Volkswagen Matthias Mueller has told Bi-bi-si: “Consumers want clean cars. People need clean air and we want to contribute”.

The German firm, whose brands include Seat and Skoda also said that it would place orders worth over 50 billion euros on batteries to power cars.

The head of VW said that at this stage the company cannot completely abandon the internal combustion engines since the infrastructure for electric vehicles is not ready yet. “During a certain period is the coexistence of internal combustion engines and electric drive, I can’t say how long,” admitted Muller.

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