VW to choose new brand to lead affordable EV project

VW Group plans a family of small EVs will be based on a heavily modified version of the automaker's MEB electric-car architecture, shown. (Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg)

May 02, 2020 08:37 AM

FRANKFURT -- Volkswagen Group is reconsidering which of its brands will develop a new family of small electric cars after its Spanish unit, Seat, lost the project.

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