The environmental activist group said that VW’s climate commitments were “unclear and vague” and called for it to end production of internal combustion engine cars by 2030 and reduce its carbon emissions by 65 per cent by the same time.
Ahead of plans to ban the sale of new ICE vehicles in the UK by 2030, other car manufacturers have made pledges, such as Ford, which will only sell electric vehicles (EVs) on the continent by that date, and General Motors, which is also ramping up EV production with plans to become carbon neutral by 2040.
VW has rejected the demands from Greenpeace after being given eight weeks by the claimants to assess them. The firm is still planning to ramp up its EV production, with the brand having delivered almost three times as many pure-electric vehicles in 2020 as it did in the previous year.
“Volkswagen stands for climate protection and decarbonising the transport sector, but it cannot tackle this challenge alone,” a spokesperson...