[electriclove]

This is great news and now we need them to deliver (and not delay/back out). I hope they sell a ton. We really need an entrenched player to fully commit to selling EVs. If VW goes all-in, everyone else will have to follow suit. Tesla needs to keep the pressure on.

[colechristensen]

I love my Volkswagen but I'm instantly put off the id3. I'll wait for an electric Jetta or more likely run what I have into the ground to avoid the new cockpit nonsense everything has now

[rcMgD2BwE72F]

>I hope they sell a ton

They plan to reach 300K annual production capacity by 2021, IIRC. This is less than Tesla' _current_ run rate for the Model 3.

[SEJeff]

Which hovers around 5000-6000 / week. The "2018" bloomberg model 3 tracker stays pretty up to date, and also still falls right inline with numbers they release at the ends of their fiscal quarters:

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker/

[chaostheory]

> We really need an entrenched player to fully commit to selling EVs.

I don't feel that this is a problem because of California laws regarding EVs, forcing every manufacturer to sell more EVs every year.

[gsnedders]

Also the EU mandate to have a fleet average of 95g of CO2/km by 2021 (or, alternatively, large fines). We're seeing all the European manufacturers, including those that don't sell much/at all in the US and therefore CA, doubling down on EVs because they're an easy way to have a big affect on the average.

[modzu]

well those mandates aren't doing much:

https://i2i.org/california-ev-mandates-fail/

i agree the comptetion between established players is required and hopefully leads to solutions to the main problem keeping many people in ICE over EV: range

[chaostheory]

That's a bit disingenuous. Without those mandates there would be a lot less auto manufacturers with EV models. CA has jump started the EV industry with those mandates. Could there be more EV owners? Sure, but this is still a huge improvement.

[modzu]

are you claiming Volkswagen is in the ev game because of california?

[skgoa]

EU and China are doing much more to push EVs than California.