FILE – In this Sept. 22, 2015, file photo, the logo of Volkswagen at a car is photographed during the Car Show in Frankfurt, Germany. VW has until Friday, Nov. 20, 2015 to submit a draft plan to fix four-cylinder diesels to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board, the two agencies that forced the German automaker to admit to the cheating. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File) Volkswagen will unveil a battery-powered SUV at the Detroit auto show on Monday, according to company sources, part of a push into electric vehicles as it seeks to win back U.S. buyers following its emissions test cheating scandal, according to Reuters.
The car will be a plug-in hybrid version of its small Tiguan, the German automaker’s top-selling sport-utility vehicle, the two sources told Reuters on Friday.
Analysts say Volkswagen’s core VW brand badly needs new models in the world’s second largest auto market to reverse a three-year decline in sales which fell 4.8 percent in 2015 to 349,440 cars.
VW has embarked on a $600 million expansion to its Chattanooga assembly plant to produce a new SUV larger than the Tiguan near the end of this year.