On Thursday, Volkswagen Group CEO Matthias Müller put forth his vision for the company's future into 2025. The plan is an aggressive one coming out of almost a year of intense public scrutiny and regulatory concerns following VW Group's involvement in a high-profile emissions scandal.

The company's new strategy, which was approved by VW Group's board of supervisors, calls for the German automaker to deliver 30 new electric vehicles across Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, and its other brands by 2025. "The Volkswagen Group forecasts that its own BEV [battery-powered electric vehicle] sales will be between two and three million units in 2025, equivalent to some 20 to 25 percent of the total unit sales expected at that time," the company wrote in a press release.

The press release didn't specifically mention the BUDD-e, Volkswagen's electric concept van, which was built to show off the company's Modular Electric Toolkit (abbreviated MEB in German). In January, Volkswagen's head of electronic development, Dr. Volkmar Tanneberger, told Car Magazine that a car very much like the BUDD-e would hit production in 2020.

VW Group also said it planned to restructure its components business, put emphasis on its truck and bus division, and continue expansion into North America and China.

In today's press release, Müller addressed the state of the company following the emissions scandal, when VW Group was caught cheating on emissions tests to certify diesel vehicles not only in the US but around the world. The situation could ultimately cost the company billions in recall costs and legal fees. Moving forward, Müller said, “will require us—following the serious setback as a result of the diesel issue—to learn from mistakes made, rectify shortcomings, and establish a corporate culture that is open, value-driven and rooted in integrity."

Volkswagen's corporate culture has been blamed in part for the diesel emissions scandal. An obsessive desire to push diesel forward as a clean alternative to gasoline, the story goes, caused engineers to get desperate trying to make cars that could pass the ever-tightening emissions standards in the US and abroad. To German investigators, Volkswagen Group's chief executives have said that they had nothing to do with the illegal software planted on the fleet of diesels that began hitting the market in 2008. Instead, those execs blamed the software on “rogue engineers.” The investigation is still ongoing.

With such ambitious goals for electric vehicle adoption, one might wonder if the same kind of corner-cutting that allegedly led to the diesel scandal could plague Volkswagen Group's new goal. In a quote to The Wall Street Journal, Müller seemed confident that the company would achieve its 2025 goals, but he didn't address claims that the company's previous goals were easily met due to a secret competitive handicap. “The (diesel) crisis has partially altered the perspective on everything we have achieved in the past years,” the CEO said. “The fact is that we achieved the targets we set in 2007 ahead of schedule or were at least on the way to doing so when the diesel issue hit us.”

Beyond commenting on the diesel issue, VW Group added that it would be investing in developing units to lead the company on battery technology, digitalization, and autonomous driving. "The aim is to license a competitive self-driving system (SDS) developed in-house by the end of the decade," the company's press release said. Volkswagen has already made a few steps toward autonomous vehicle testing, having registered for a special permit with the California DMV to test cars on its roads.