Luxury Car manufacturer Volkswagen has had its share of controversy through the years. About a year ago, the said company came under fire over issues with their carbon emissions results, along with how prone their hundreds of millions of vehicles are.
In the Europe, and in parts of the US alone, 11 millions of these cars have a "defeat device" installed, enabling the car to go on a "safe mode" the moment it spots inconsistencies with that of the standards set by emission testing.
This "safe mode" has been found to be a way of cheating emission tests, as the emission levels drastically alter whenever the testing mode can't be spotted anymore. This has permitted emissions from the vehicles to go over the set allowable level by 40 times, which in turn could have a negative effect on Volkswagen's image and reputation.
This scandal caused Martin Winterkorn, the Chief Executive to step down, and be replaced by former Porsche-affiliated Matthias Mueller. In a bid to bring back their good reputation among consumers and environmental awareness advocates, they are going to launch their first purely electric-powered car at the motor show in Paris for this year.
The electric car will have the same dimensions as that of the Golf, will have lots of inside space like the Passat, with the feature which stands out the most being the extra fast time for charging, given that you can drive as far as 300 miles for a mere charging time of 15 mins.This is in accordance with their promises to launch a pro-environment array of cars in the US by the year 2020, and part of that array includes various plug-in and EV models.
The first fully electric-powered car is slated to be out in stores either in the latter part of 2018 or the early on in the year after that.
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