Recently, Volkswagen announced that it will invest US$1.8 billion in Brazil to develop a new hybrid platform and new models, which may be a signal for Volkswagen, which has always focused on the development of pure electric vehicles, and may be a signal that they intend to transform to promote hybrid and help achieve the goal of energy conservation and carbon reduction through hybridization.
Although Volkswagen has invested heavily in pure electric models in recent years, it recently announced that it will invest R$9 billion in Brazil over the next five years to develop hybrid platforms and new models, and in the future they will launch 16 new models in the Brazilian market, including hybrid models and pure electric models, to help the local vehicle electrification development.
After all, in recent years, Toyota has successfully defeated Volkswagen to become the global sales king for 4 consecutive years by virtue of the best-selling hybrid models (accounting for about one-third of total sales), so it seems that Volkswagen intends to develop hybrid models, after all, Oliver Blume, CEO of Volkswagen AG, has said that it will continue to promote the development of hybrid models in the future.
Although hybrid models are still not the mainstream of the market at present, but because the growth rate of electric vehicles is gradually slowing down, so betting on hybrid models may be another way out, and although this time it is investing in Brazil, it is believed that the original factory will still give these models to major markets such as the United States and Europe in the future, after all, it currently has four factories in the local area, but the original factory does not plan to produce pure electric vehicles locally, so Brazil is likely to become Volkswagen's hybrid model export base in the future.
Although Toyota was accused of the slow development of pure electric vehicles and would be eliminated by competitors, last year's sales hit a new high, reaching 11,233,039 units, and about one-third of the world's first sales are hybrid models, and the proportion of pure electric vehicles in total sales is even less than 1%, so it can be seen that even if you do not rely on electric vehicles, Toyota is still able to maintain its leading position in the automotive industry.
Finally, it is definitely a good thing that Volkswagen will be able to continue to develop hybrid models in addition to pure electric vehicles, after all, so that consumers will have more choices in the future and will not be forced to choose electric vehicles because they only have electric vehicles.
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