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Volkswagen Group Research and KUKA partner to develop robot-supported services for autonomous and electric vehicles

Green Car Congress

The e-smart Connect project—highlighted during a recent Media Day event—includes a practical and user-friendly solution for charging high-voltage batteries of electric vehicles produced by the Volkswagen Group. These will be all-electric battery-powered vehicles. A further 30 models will follow by 2025.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ).

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