VW Group plans to launch 17 plug-in hybrid models (PHEV) by 2025
- In addition to its goal of selling one million 100% electric vehicles (BEV) per year by 2025, the Volkswagen Group expects to sell between one million and two million rechargeable hybrid vehicles (PHEV) per year by this date.
- With a dozen different BEV models that will be launched between 2017 and 2025 on the new MEB platform and the 17 PHEV models that the Volkswagen Group intends to launch over the same period, it is about thirty electrified models that the manufacturer expects to market at that time.
- Nearly 10% of its total sales will then be represented by BEVs and between 10% and 20% of its total sales will be represented by PHEVs. Between 70% and 80% of its total sales will therefore remain represented by gasoline or diesel-powered models without electrification.
- Such a proportion may seem a lot if one takes into account several law projects aiming at banning new vehicles with gasoline or diesel engines by 2030. The German Bundesrat has thus presented legislation to this effect.
- Volkswagen considers that the two main obstacles for a large-scale use of BEVs are the high price of cars and their low autonomy. However, a large-scale distribution will lower their selling price and the expected progress on the batteries will increase their autonomy.
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