Volkswagen Group is leading the way with the largest electric offensive in the automotive industry: 70 pure electric vehicles over the next ten years. The most important questions and answers about electric mobility: ...

The Group, along with its partners are building a total of 36,000 charging points throughout Europe by 2025, of which 11,000 of those will come from the Volkswagen brand. They are located primarily at Volkswagen locations - and at around 3,000 Volkswagen dealers in all major cities. Volkswagen Group is investing a three-digit million sum in the charging stations at its locations alone. In addition, Volkswagen enters into strategic partnerships with major retail chains so that customers can conveniently charge their cars whilst shopping. This underscores the Group's goal of providing suitable infrastructure solutions in addition to attractive electric cars.

But it is also clear that all this is not enough to get electric mobility out of its niche. With the expected breakthrough of e-mobility and the growth of electric cars on the roads, the charging infrastructure must be expanded even further. In Germany alone, it is estimated that up to 210,000 public charging points will be required by 2025.