Volkswagen to use electric vehicles for Greek island transport system

ATHENS (Reuters) – Volkswagen <VOWG_p.DE> has agreed with Greece to deploy electric vehicles as part of a transport system on a small Greek island, the German carmaker said on Wednesday.

Volkswagen Chairman Herbert Diess and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis are expected to join a virtual event to sign a memorandum of understanding for the project to run on Astypalea in the Aegean, which has about 1,300 inhabitants.

(Reporting by Angeliki Koutantou; Editing by Edmund Blair)