VW will make electricity from renewable sources available to future buyers of cars such the electric version of its soon-to-be launched Up! small runaround, as well as radical VW designs including a single-seat, ultra-efficient concept EV, says the Financial Times.

The company’s head of research Jürgen Leohold says packaging vehicles with renewable energy would remove the most often cited environmental downside to EVs – that there is no guarantee over the green credentials of the power they consume.

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