This is excellent news, it means that VW is testing the electric car waters. While Tesla has to trickle down all of its technology into wholly new cars, VW can

This is excellent news, it means that VW is testing the electric car waters. While Tesla has to trickle down all of its technology into wholly new cars, VW can trickle down consumer level stuff into electric VWs (and yes, I know about the e-golf but it only goes 83 miles on a charge and isn't even the blip the Nissan Leaf is).