Volkswagen of America’s Chief Engineering Officer, Matthias Erb, yesterday expanded on some of the details about how the carmaker will implement its new master plan, Strategy 2025. The plan, he revealed, could include up to three electric platforms.
Strategy 2025 was outlined earlier this year, in the wake of the emissions scandal, and in it Volkswagen AG announced that they would look to make electric vehicles account for roughly a quarter of their sales by the quarter century mark.
Up until now, most of the conversation around electric vehicles at VW has centered around MEB (the Modular Electric Toolkit), which currently underpins the Budd-e concept and is expected to be the platform for future production cars. The Budd-e was first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, earlier this year.
Volkswagen’s three electric platforms would be the base for up to 30 electric vehicles across Volkswagen’s brands, said Erb. Each platform will be flexible enough to support different wheelbases and track widths to suit each car.
The new electric vehicles would be based around their battery packs, says Erb, which on the Budd-e is good for 233 miles on a charge and can be charged up to 80% in 30 minutes.
Volkswagen has already announced that they will be building an electric vehicle in North America 2020.
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