The VW/Porsche merger is no small move, and that’s no secret. But it seems that VW CEO, Martin Winterkorn, has a very strong feeling that Porsche will be coming out better than they went in. In fact, in a recent interview with German magazine Manager Magazin, Winterkorn has said that he could see Porsche sales increasing 200% to 150,00 vehicles sold a year by 2013.

The only way to actually see how Porsche will do once the deal goes down is to wait however, Mr. Winterkorn seems pretty confident. Let the speculation begin!

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Talks about fully electric cars from major automakers have been circulating for a while. Some fully electric ones have even managed to be mass produced and sent to market.

Well, despite all this, VW CEO Martin Winterkorn says that daily electric car use is still very far away and he’s even investing in this assumption capitalizing on the ability to power cars with gas, but just less gas.

What do you guys think? How much longer do we have to wait until electric cars become the norm?

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