美国东部时间10月26日，据electrek报道，大众汽车(Volkswagen Group)提出了可能是迄今为止最雄心勃勃的主张:到2020年他们将拥有与特斯拉一样好的电动汽车，并且价格是特斯拉的一半。

大众汽车CEO Herbert Diess最近表示：“我们现在已经很强大，我们向电动汽车投了300亿，我们已经在Zwickau有了一座工厂，还准备在上海建一座电动汽车工厂。2020年，我们会推出很棒的电动汽车，它像特斯拉汽车一样强，但是价格便宜一半。”

在汽车行业中，主机厂商很少公开承认要对标哪家公司。但大众在电动汽车领域显然一直在追赶特斯拉。

去年，Diess说，他把特斯拉视为他们的主要竞争对手;

当谈到一款“可以像特斯拉那样做任何事情”、“价格减半”的电动汽车时，Diess透露可能会引用I.D. （大众汽车品牌未来I.D.家族）概念，这款车将被命名为“Neo”因为这是他们计划在2020年发布的首款新电动汽车。（大众I.D家族第一款量产上市的车型I.D.Neo。也是大众在排放门之后尽快实现对消费者承诺的一款纯电动车型，投入巨大。）

甚至在2016年推出这一概念车之前，大众汽车就宣布将在电动范围内通过曲解nedc级别（“New European Driving Cycle”，是欧洲的续航测试标准）的Model 3车型，击败Model 3和Model X。

多年来，大众一直在鼓吹I.D.，想用它打败特斯拉，但是关于I.D.汽车的性能及其它细节，我们一无所知。大众也没有透露I.D.的价格，但是据说要2.8万美元。比Model 3便宜，还不到它价格的一半。

这款车预计将于2020年登陆欧洲和中国，之后将登陆北美。

以下为英文原文：

The Volkswagen Group has made several ambitious claims about its effort to go electric since it was hit by the Dieselgate scandal.

Now they make arguably their most ambitious claim yet: that they’ll have electric vehicles as good as Tesla’s for half the price by 2020.

VW boss Herbert Diess made the comment on the ZDF program “Maybrit Illner” when talking about the automaker’s electrification effort (translated from German):

“Here we come very strong now. We have invested 30 billion in electromobility, we have already rededicated a plant in Zwickau, and we are building an electric vehicle plant in Shanghai. We will come in 2020 with vehicles that can do anything like Tesla and are cheaper by half.”

It’s rare in the auto industry that automakers will acknowledge other automakers by name publicly like that, but Volkswagen has been clearly going after Tesla in its electrification effort.

Last year, Diess said that ‘ he sees Tesla as their main competitor;’.

When talking about an EV that “can do anything like Tesla” and “is half the price”, Diess is presumably referencing the I.D. Concept, which is expected to be called ‘Neo’ (pictured above), since it’s the first new EV they plan to release in 2020.

Before even unveiling the concept in 2016, VW announced that it would beat the Model 3 and Model X in electric range by misrepresenting the NEDC-rated range of the Model 3. In a presentation, it pinned the two vehicles against each other even though they are both unreleased yet and they are planned to be released years apart.

As for the price, VW hasn’t confirmed it yet, but they have been talking about 25,000 euros (~$28,000), which is less expensive than the Model 3, but not half the price.

The vehicle is expected to hit Europe and China in 2020 and come to North America later.

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