CAPTION: The CEO of German carmaker Audi, Markus Duesmann. (picture alliance / dpa)
The CEO of German carmaker Audi, Markus Duesmann, is sticking to his goal of delivering an autonomously driving electric car by 2025. "This is on an excellent path," said Duesmann, who was speaking via video link at the "Summit of World Market Leaders" in Schwäbisch Hall, in the southern German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, on Wednesday. Audi plans to bring a fully connected electric Audi with new software to market by 2025 with its Artemis project. Audi, a VW subsidiary, wants to use the project to take on the US-based automaker Tesla.
"I think it is crucial for the future of the automotive industry in Europe to focus on the essential technologies," Duesmann continued. For him, those are battery-electric drives. Audi, he said, had increased sales of all-electric vehicles by nearly 60 percent in 2021 compared to the previous year.
Despite the coronavirus pandemic and the spread of the Omicron variant, the multi-day Summit of World Market Leaders had about 350 registered participants, the organizers reported on Wednesday. The conference ends on Thursday.
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