Volkswagen CEO: smart cars, not e-cars, are ‘gamechanger’ By Reuters
By Christoph Steitz and Jan Schwartz MUNICH (Reuters) - Volkswagen (DE:VOWG_p) head Herbert Diess on Sunday said autonomous cars, not electric vehicles, were the "real gamechanger" for the auto industry, which is facing the end of combustion engines in Europe by 2035. Diess' comments signal the pace at which the 62-year old tries to transform Europe's largest carmaker by basically saying that the shift towards battery-powered electric vehicles (EV), which still needs to be backed up by actual sales, was sealed. "Autonomous driving is really going to change our industry like nothing else before," Diess said...
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