By Senad Karaahmetovic

Volkswagen (ETR:) CEO believes the German automaker may surpass Tesla (NASDAQ:) to change into the biggest vendor of electrical automobiles (EVs) by 2025, he informed media right now.

Herbert Diess, Chief Government Officer of Volkswagen, stated he expects easing provide chain constraints to offer a major enhance for the corporate within the following months.

“Tesla at present is within the lead on the subject of EVs, in all probability additionally it’s the most digital automobile firm already they usually have some benefits,” stated Diess. “We’re nonetheless aiming at maintaining and doubtless overtaking by 2025 on the subject of gross sales.”

He added that Tesla has managed to ship sturdy efficiency and excessive returns with a dependable enterprise mannequin, however he believes that Volkswagen may quickly slender the hole to the U.S. electrical carmaker when it comes to EV gross sales.

Diess thinks that ramping up manufacturing will likely be considerably tougher for Tesla now.

“They’re opening up new crops and we try to maintain up velocity. We predict within the second half of the 12 months, we’re going to create some momentum,” he stated.

Earlier this month, Tesla CEO Elon Musk flagged Volkswagen as Tesla’s largest EV competitor.

“I feel the corporate making essentially the most progress in addition to Tesla is definitely VW which isn’t a startup however might be seen in some methods as a startup from an electrical car standpoint. So VW is doing essentially the most on the electrical car entrance,” he informed the Monetary Occasions in an interview.

Tesla inventory worth is down 2.6% in pre-open right now.