Re:VW’s $50B Bet on an Electric Hatchback
by petre on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @04:35PM
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The GP is right about infrastructure though. If EU states do not offer incentives for charging stations, the EVs will be worthless and they'll just shoot themselves and the auto industry in the foot with all the stricter emissions standards. Especially the Germans.
I completely agree with this. In fact, in my country many people are buying Škoda Superb even if they can afford Audi A6, because they don't see Audi A6 as being worth 2x the price.
> After defeat device story VW group is anyway dead to me.
I noticed that all Volkswagen and smaller Audi cars released after 2015 came with much lower interior quality (more scratchy plastics), but the quality of Škoda and Seat cars has noticeably increased.
> And I don’t believe in their EV initiative. They do it only to make people forget the story with defeat device.
No, they do it in order not to become the Nokia of automotive industry after iPhone's release. Because that's where the entire European market is heading after the introduction of stricter emission standards.