BERLIN, May 11 (Reuters) – Volkswagen’s U.S. brand Scout was designed from the start to \u200cpursue a potential stock market listing \u200cor to allow strategic investors to take a stake, \u200bits CEO Scott Keogh told daily Handelsblatt, as it explores new funding options.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Scout was deliberately set up as a stand-alone entity, Keogh \u200csaid. Outside capital \u2060was “an option that is on the table”, Keogh said in the interview \u2060with the German business newspaper<\/p>\n
\u2022 Keogh pointed to U.S. investment funds focused on what he \u200bcalled the \u200bcountry’s “industrial renaissance”, without \u200bnaming specific investors<\/p>\n
\u2022 Volkswagen \u200cwants to use Scout to increase its small U.S. market share, but internal doubts have grown over launching a new electric unit at a time of weakening demand, Handelsblatt said<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u200cKeogh said that the \u200bbet on robust trucks and \u200bSUVs with \u200bso\u2011called range extenders had paid off, \u200cadding that 87% of more \u200bthan 170,000 \u200bpre-orders were for that drive type, according to the paper<\/p>\n
\u2022 Production of a new \u200bAudi model \u200con Scout’s flexible platform was also possible, \u200bKeogh told the paper<\/p>\n
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