By the top of 2026, VW expects that 25% of the autos it sells globally can be electrical. Currently, electrical autos account for five% to six% of VW gross sales.

As it prepares for that shift, VW will spend €89 billion, the equal of just a little greater than $100 billion, to hurry its push in the direction of electricification. This marks the primary time VW is budgeting greater than half its whole spending — which totals roughly $180 billion — for EVs. At the identical time, expenditures on hybrid autos, which use batteries together with gasoline engines can be lowered by 30%.

The expenditures will embody new factories, reminiscent of a brand new plant on the corporations headquarters at Wolfsburg, Germany. VW’s Project Trinity, a brand new flagship electrical automobile deliberate for round 2025, can be constructed at Wolfsburg. VW additionally outlined plans for various new amenities all through Europe.

Volkswagen can be planning to create a separate battery manufacturing firm. The battery enterprise is anticipated to generate as much as €30 billion in income which is greater than the corporate’s Skoda passenger automobile division at present generates, based on VW.