'Das Auto' goes electric as VW takes on Tesla

Frankfurt (AFP) March 22, 2021

When Volkswagen chief executive Herbert Diess joined Twitter in January, he used his first tweet to warn pioneering electric car maker Elon Musk that he was coming after him. The bold proclamation raised some eyebrows, coming from a carmaker better known for its 2015 "dieselgate" emissions cheating scandal than its green credentials. But all that has changed since the German group announ