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VW, which has regained the status of automaker says an investment of several billion euros in the cell cars and new mobility services in the world that Europe and China are seeking to encourage sales of plug-in cars and regulators are tightening emission rules.
VW factory with glass walls in the eastern city of Dresden embodies the post-dieselgate business transformation better than one of its 120 factories worldwide.
Before the scandal broke in September 2015, the smallest VW factory built sedan Phaeton 12 cylinders, the most expensive model of the brand that has been abandoned now last March it will instead produce a version of the E-Golf d 'electrical April.
We want to play a major role in the launch of new electric vehicles, said Kai Siedlatzek, CFO at Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH, which employs 10,000 workers in Dresden, Chemnitz and Zwickau in eastern Germany.
The Zwickau plant will use a new modular platform for electric vehicles electric vehicles to build I D hatchback in 2019.
In the short term, VW will begin to deliver the new e-Golf with a battery range of 300 km 185 miles The car will also be produced at its headquarters in the West German city of Wolfsburg.
He already has 2,000 orders for the Model 35900 37770 EUR Norway, which provides some of the most generous incentives in the world for electric cars, said Siedlatzek.
We want to make electric mobility available to the masses, he said.
Industry analysts are still convinced that the electric car market may grow as fast as rivals Volkswagen and hope.
The VW brand can not achieve its goal of selling 1 million electric vehicles per year by 2025, according to IHS Markit the brand share of electric all global automotive production could increase to 15 percent or 554.062 vehicles by 2025 3 7 percent or 20 972 last year, said IHS.
To continue its electric ambitions, VW is in partnership with Dresden, the state capital of Saxony and is home to about 540,000 people.
The city administration wants to increase the number of public charging stations and improve parking for increasing the number of zero-emission cars on its roads.
Established automakers are trying to catch Tesla e-car leader in Silicon Valley, which maintains its own network of chargers Tesla charging stations are the fastest in the industry, and are incompatible with existing electric cars made by his rivals.
Property group Deutsche Annington Immobilien Gruppe, owner of 38,000 apartments in Dresden, help create charging points, said Siedlatzek.
To encourage public acceptance of electric vehicles, VW Dresden wants drivers to be able to use mobile payment services provided parking Sunhill VW-owned Technologies.
VW has also developed an application for the route drivers to parking spaces quickly and then add similar trip planning services to traffic software owned by Google.
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