« Local Motors debuts first self-driving vehicle using IBM Watson Internet of Things for Automotive | Main Volkswagen Group CEO Matthias Müller presented the company’s new new strategic plan—TOGETHER – Strategy 2025—in Wolfsburg. With regard to vehicles and drivetrains, the new strategy places special emphasis on e-mobility. The Group is planning a broad-based initiative in this area: it intends to launch more than 30 purely battery-powered electric vehicles (BEVs) over the next ten years. The Company estimates that such vehicles could then account for around a quarter of the global passenger car market. The Volkswagen Group forecasts that its own BEV sales will be between two and three million units in 2025, equivalent to some 20 to 25 percent of the total unit sales expected at that time. Although the electrification initiative takes center stage in the Group’s future drivetrain strategy, the combustion engine remains important, Müller said. Combustion […]