VW plans EV/Hybrid push

Volkswagen is planning to have hybrid and electric vehicles accounting for 3 percent of its global sales by 2018.

That strategy will include a hybrid version of the Jetta due to go on sale in 2012, a hybrid version of the Touareg to be available by the end of this year, and an electric Up minicar within two years.

The major market for the EV/hybrid push is the US, where economic diesels still don't sell in large numbers.