[stiGGG]

>I would hope VW puts into production some of their claimed Year 2020 EV models, if so, they will have restored my faith in the company.

As someone who already owned a couple cars out of the Volkswagen brands, currently is seeing them still very critical but following their news closely I am sure they will do. The first ID model will maybe delayed, maybe not better than a Tesla in many points, but I see VW is going full in to EVs and this is something that would never happened so fast if there wasn’t this Dieselgate story. The other german car manufactors are way more conservative with their transition and VW will push a So this is maybe the happy end of all this.

[gsnedders]

The "requirement" for a fleet average of 95g of CO2/km in the EU is inevitably pushing many manufacturers to double-down on full EVs, as provided you can sell enough they can have a dramatic effect on the fleet average. (It's a requirement insofar as there are fines for being over, but there's no other consequences in the short-term.)

[Haga]

No they will not. You can't imagine the sunken cost fallacy around the diesel. Careers, factory and towns where build around this.

They can not grow internak competition against it without sabotage from those who built this.