Volkswagen unintentionally posted a press launch on its web site a month early on Monday saying a brand new identify for its U.S. operations, Voltswagen of America, emphasizing the German automaker’s electrical automobile efforts.

A spokesman for the corporate declined to touch upon the discharge, which was dated April 29 and has since been taken down.

An individual acquainted with the corporate’s plans confirmed the authenticity of the discharge to CNBC. They requested to stay nameless as a result of the plans weren’t meant to be public but.

The discharge known as the change a “public declaration of the corporate’s future-forward funding in e-mobility.” It stated Voltswagen might be positioned as an exterior badge on all EV fashions with fuel autos having the corporate’s iconic VW emblem solely.

To “protect parts of Volkswagen’s heritage,” the discharge stated the corporate deliberate to retain the darkish blue shade of the VW brand for gas-powered autos and use mild blue to distinguish “the brand new, EV-centric branding.”

The discharge stated Voltswagen of America would stay an working unit of Volkswagen Group of America and a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG, with headquarters in Herndon, Virginia.

Volts are the derived models for electrical potential, also referred to as electromotive pressure, between two factors. Basic Motors beforehand used Volt for a plug-in hybrid electrical automobile between 2010 and 2019.

The VW press launch was incomplete, citing the necessity for a further quote and pictures from the automaker’s plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

A reputation change could be the most recent EV information from Volkswagen, which earlier this month held a “Power Day” to debate its EV applied sciences. It additionally introduced objectives of considerably rising gross sales of EVs by way of the tip of the last decade. It expects greater than 70% of its Volkswagen model’s European gross sales might be EVs by 2030, up from a earlier goal of 35%. Within the U.S. and China, it expects half of its gross sales to be EVs by that timeframe.

GM earlier this yr did not go so far as altering its identify however introduced a brand new brand and advert marketing campaign centered on EVs. The Detroit automaker’s new brand options its gm initials in lowercase letters with the “m” underlined as a nod to its Ultium battery cell platform that may underpin its new EVs The blue letters are inside a rounded field of the identical shade. It changed a white GM underlined inside a darker blue block.