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Battery supply is going to explode in the next years. But either way, this is not like the eGolf situation of old. It's not an isolated experimental vehicle sol
by Certhas 8y ago
Battery supply is going to explode in the next years. But either way, this is not like the eGolf situation of old. It's not an isolated experimental vehicle sold in small numbers. They built an entire platform for building many different models of electric cars.
People mistake VW trying to squeeze as much as they can out of combustion engines for VW ignoring the future. Tesla forced their hand and has a real headstart. But consider this. While Tesla was figuring out how to build a single car at scale, VW has spent the last ten years figuring out how to build dozens of models from SUV to city car from a joint technological platform [1]. And they have spent the last three years developing a version of that platform for electric vehicles [2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group_MQB_platform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group_MQB_platform
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group_MEB_platform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group_MEB_platform
- growlist 8y ago> VW has spent the last ten years figuring out how to build dozens of models ..whilst also managing to squeeze in figuring out how to cheat emissions tests! What a company.
- ovi256 8y agoThat's so easy it's done in embedded programming university classes. All VW did was turn on the 'cheat emissions' flag in the ECU supplied by Bosch. Don't get me wrong, it's still cheating.
- Certhas 8y agoTrue but irrelevant to the point at hand. Consider this. Total R&D investment of companies world wide, Top 5: 1) Amazon 20B 2) Alphabet 15B 3) Samsung 13B 4) Intel 12B 5) VW 11.5B No other industrial company is in the top 10. Tesla is at a tenth of VW in total R&D. https://www.ey.com/ch/en/newsroom/news-releases/news-release-ey-worldwide-swiss-companies-invest-most-in-research-and-development https://www.ey.com/ch/en/newsroom/news-releases/news-release...