AndyH
Well-known member
http://www.sae.org/mags/AEI/8645
Dr. Martin Winterkorn, Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG...[pronounced]...that "Volkswagen will be the automaker to mass-produce the electric car for everyone" didn't come from his German headquarters. It was made at the VW Electronics Research Laboratories (ERL) in Palo Alto, CA, in the heart of Silicon Valley. Adding emphasis was Martin Eberhard, a founder of Tesla who is now working at the ERL and making an effort to convince VW to take the Tesla approach to a battery pack.
The company's first all-electric to market, however, apparently will be an Audi-badged eTron, a low-volume model to be launched in late 2012.