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"Diess
would go in right away if he could," the magazine quoted one of
Diess' top managers as saying.
Diess believes Volkswagen could profit from Tesla's competence
in the fields of batteries and software, Manager Magazin said,
adding the German company had enough money.
Acquiring a stake would be sufficient for a start, the report
said.
A bigger obstacle, however, would be to get the consent of
Volkswagen's dominating owner families, the Piechs and the
Porsches.
Volkswagen was not immediately available for comment.
A banker close to Volkswagen said that while it is true that
Diess would love to have Tesla's software developers, he
believed it is almost impossible to justify paying $30 billion
(27.09 billion euros) to buy the whole company.
(Reporting by Thomas Seythal; Additional reporting by Jan
Schwartz and Edward Taylor)
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