With a diesel emissions scandal not fully in its rear view, Volkswagen is betting big on electric vehicles.

During a press conference in the company's home town of Wolfsburg, Germany, Volkswagen CEO Matthias Müller today said the company plans to launch more than 30 "fully electric new vehicles" by 2025. By then, VW expects to be selling about 2-3 million purely electric vehicles a year. This will account for an estimated 25 percent of the company's total sales volume, he added.

"The combustion engine remains important," Müller said. "It will be with us for some time to come and will still account for around two-thirds of the new vehicles market volumes in 2030. But that also means the other third will be electrically powered."

In October, Volkswagen said it will focus more heavily on EVs in the future, with models like the Phaeton among those scheduled for an electric vehicle. In January, VW then showed off an all-electric concept van called the BUDD-e, which the company said could get 233 miles on a charge and be charged to 80 percent in 30 minutes.

Müller on Thursday also said autonomous driving is "another key issue" for the company.

"We have no doubt whatsoever that this revolutionary technology will be reality just a few years from now," he said. "Fully autonomous vehicles with a self-driving system developed in-house will enter the market by the beginning of the next decade."

Müller also addressed VW's ongoing diesel emissions issue, saying it gave the company a "thorough shakeup and we need time to fully overcome it." His comments come after a US judge on Wednesday extended the deadline for VW to reach a final diesel settlement with federal regulators, according to Reuters. Both parties reached a tentative settlement in April and US District Judge gave them until June 21 to publicly file it. Now, that deadline has been extended until June 28.