<p style="text-align: center;"><img title="1609818766102157.jpg" alt="7.jpg" src="/ueditor/php/upload/image/20210105/1609818766102157.jpg"/></p><p>Volkswagen&nbsp;has hired&nbsp;Elke Temme, a long-time executive at Germany&#39;s top utility RWE, to head the carmaker&#39;s newly created division for energy and&nbsp;electric vehicle charging, it said on Monday.<br/><br/>Temme&#39;s move is the latest illustration of the growing convergence of the autos and energy sectors amid an expected boom in demand for electric vehicles.<br/><br/>Most recently, Temme was chief operating officer of Innogy&nbsp;eMobility&nbsp;solutions. Innogy was carved out from RWE in 2016 and later broken up in an asset swap with E.ON, which acquired the firm&#39;s emobility activities in the process.</p><p><br/></p><p>She will be in charge of pooling and managing existing group activities in the fields of energy, charging services, charging equipment and charging infrastructure across all brands, Volkswagen said.<br/><br/>&quot;With Elke Temme, we have won a proven expert in the fields of energy and charging for our company,&quot; Volkswagen board member Thomas Schmall said in a statement.</p>