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VW in Talks With Peers to Share Its Electric Know-How
- German carmaker targets greater scale in shift to battery cars
- Audi has offered glimpse at possible rival to Tesla’s Model 3
An Audi AG e-tron 55 Quattro electric automobile.
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Volkswagen AG is in talks with other manufacturers on sharing the key technology underpinning its future Porsche and Audi electric car models, part of an effort to build scale and spread development costs.
“There’s definitely interest,” Ulrich Widmann, head of development at Audi for the joint engineering project, said at a press briefing in Munich. “We’re having conversations. Sharing technology to generate scale effects is the only way to achieve the turnaround in electric cars, both economically and ecologically.”