The big news of the week has clearly been Volkswagen's admission that up to 11 million vehicles it made could be misreporting their true emission levels. We are working intensively on the necessary technical solutions, and we will do everything possible to prevent harm to our customers and employees. VW’s share price has plummeted as a result, and some reports suggest the crisis could even completely kill the diesel passenger car market globally . But what about electric cars? With the benefits of diesel being overstated, the market is now slowly beginning to turn against diesel cars, even in countries like the UK, where they had overtaken petrol car sales. Combine this with the improvements in battery technology for electric cars and the slowly increasing trickle of electric car charging points and the odds begin to stack in electric’s favour. This is a viewpoint that Bernstein Research holds, according to The Guardian.
The big news of the week has clearly been Volkswagen's admission that up to 11 million vehicles it made could be misreporting their true emission levels. VW’s share price has plummeted as a result, and some reports suggest the crisis could even completely kill the diesel passenger car market globally . But what about electric cars? With the benefits of diesel being overstated, the market is now slowly beginning to turn against diesel cars, even in countries like the UK, where they had overtaken petrol car sales. Combine this with the improvements in battery technology for electric cars and the slowly increasing trickle of electric car charging points and the odds begin to stack in electric’s favour. This is a viewpoint that Bernstein Research holds, according to The Guardian.