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That's weird because Herbert Diess (CEO of VW) already said that they won't be able to overtake Tesla in EV but will fight for #2.

• jhallenworld 5y ago
  Well he's probably said a lot of things, I found this: “No, we haven’t considered (that), we are going our own way,” he replied. “We want to get close and then overtake.” “We think that we can – we need our own software stack, our own technology,” he added. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/16/volkswagen-ceo-says-he-wants-to-get-close-and-then-overtake-tesla.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/16/volkswagen-ceo-says-he-wants...
  • rcMgD2BwE72F 5y ago
    Here he admits they won't overtake Tesla in the US https://twitter.com/Herbert_Diess/status/1416303359078936576 https://twitter.com/Herbert_Diess/status/1416303359078936576 Let's see how it goes in Europe (Berlin gigafactory is coming online soo...) and in China (not looking good https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/reality-check-vw-china-after-sluggish-start-electric-car-series-2021-06-22/ https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/realit...)
    • detaro 5y ago
      Nr 2 long-term. Not Nr 2 behind Tesla necessarily.
  • detaro 5y ago
    > “We think that we can – we need our own software stack, our own technology,” he added. They've slept on that for a bit too long IMHO, and now are claiming they are going to scale their software org by thousands of employees in a few years, while already having issues with software in their younger releases. I'll be positively surprised if they pull that off well.