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VW boss Oliver Blume: Clearly on the electric course

2022-09-05T14:06:23.326Z


VW boss Oliver Blume: Clearly on the electric course Created: 09/05/2022, 16:00 By: Marcus Efler Even under his new boss, VW will continue to rely primarily on electric cars – Oliver Blume has now made this clear. On Facebook, users were not amused. After the departure of the previous boss Herbert Diess, quite a few things may change at Volkswagen. Many employees assume that the new boss Olive


VW boss Oliver Blume: Clearly on the electric course

Created: 09/05/2022, 16:00

By: Marcus Efler

Even under his new boss, VW will continue to rely primarily on electric cars – Oliver Blume has now made this clear.

On Facebook, users were not amused.

After the departure of the previous boss Herbert Diess, quite a few things may change at Volkswagen.

Many employees assume that the new boss Oliver Blume (who also wants to continue to lead Porsche at the same time) will have a slightly more cooperative management style than Diess, a fan of Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

Fans of combustion cars had also hoped that Blume would deviate from the clear electric course of his predecessor: his statements on e-fuels could be interpreted in such a way that VW would continue to use classic, but then "green" even after the EU-wide ban on climate-damaging fuel engines. would like to offer fueled cars.

Electro fan: VW boss Oliver Blume © IMAGO / Mladen Lackovic

VW boss Oliver Blume: Clearly on the electric course

But Oliver Blume has now put a sensitive damper on these expectations.

"We will maintain the previous pace and, where possible, increase it," he said about the electric course according to the

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

at a manager conference of the group in Lisbon.

"I'm a fan of e-mobility and I also stand by this path through my work at Porsche," says the dual boss.

In fact, among the classic sports car manufacturers, Porsche is the only one to date who already has a fully electric car in its range with the Taycan - and it's also extremely successful.

Other models such as the Macan SUV and the 718 will also be purely electric in the future, and the Mission R prototype even announces an electric super sports car.

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VW boss Oliver Blume: Users criticize the electric course

In addition to its beloved six-cylinder boxer engine, even the image carrier 911 will probably also have an electric drive, but in the long term it should remain available as a combustion engine for e-fuels.

To this end, Porsche is participating in a production facility for the climate-neutral fuel in Chile.

Because of the expected high prices for e-fuels, such cars will probably remain luxury products, while mass production from the VW group is also focusing on e-cars under Blume - which could possibly even mean the end of the VW Golf.

On Facebook you can read what some customers think of it: "You have to switch to other brands.

If there are no more Germans, it will be Japanese," it says, or: "Continue with electric cars towards the abyss, one can only wish a speedy recovery".

Source: merkur

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