On Monday, Oliver Blume, the CEO of luxury sports car maker Porsche AG said, the carmaker is attracting huge demand for its all-electric coupe Taycan model, causing wait times to stretch to up to six months. “Our original production capacity for the Taycan was 20,000 units this year – we’ve sold that many in the…
In a statement Volkswagen’s CEO said, the company must change its approach to how it sells electric vehicles (EV) in China, in a response to dismal EV sales there. “Sales are picking up but it requires focus and different approaches as the customers for the EVs are much younger and different to our customer base…
In a significant development, the Volkswagen Group intends to more than double the market share of the VW brand in the fully electric vehicles market in Europe by 2030. The development marks an acceleration in the carmaker’s shift towards battery-powered cars. “Fully electric vehicles are expected to account for more than 70% of total European…
According to a report from the BBC, the Volkswagen Group along with Porsche, are weighing options to enter Formula One provided the next engine regulations, which are scheduled to be introduced in 2025, promote sustainable fuels. Porsche Motorsport’s vice-president Fritz Enzinger has been quoted as saying, it would be “of great interest if aspects of…
In a statement, Wayne Griffiths, the chairman of Volkswagen’s Spanish unit SEAT said, the company is set to lose some of its production volumes in the first half of this year due to the shortage of semiconductors for the auto sector. It will have to recover the loss in the second half. Griffiths made the…
In a development that further fuels speculation of an impending deal between Volkswagen’s supercar brand Bugatti and electric hypercar maker Rimac Automobili, Porsche AG’s CEO told German weekly Automobilwoche that both companies make a good technological fit. Last year, British automotive magazine Car had reported that VW was on the brink of selling Bugatti to…
In an interview, to Germany’s Wirtschaftswoche weekly magazine, Herbert Diess, Volkswagen’s CEO stated the carmaker expects autonomous vehicles to be ready for sale between 2025 and 2030. Improvements in artificial intelligence, as well as improvements in the performance of computer chips are speeding up the development of autonomous vehicles. “It is foreseeable that the systems…
Reviewing the ID.3, Volkswagen’s new electric car offering, Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport said, it falls short of the carmaker’s usual standards of fit and finish; also it had a limited operating range. The review comes ahead of the launch of the ID.3 “The inner side of the hood looks like it was painted with…
In a statement, Volkswagen’s Chief Executive Herbert Diess made it clear that it has currently no plans to develop deeper ties with U.S. rival Tesla Inc. The move is aimed at ending speculation that the world’s largest carmaker, which is on a drive to push for mass production of electric cars, has plans to tie-up…
European carmaker Volkswagen electric vehicle strategy is playing itself out, with the carmaker’s electric offensive picking up speed, as planned. In September 2019, VW unveiled its new all-electric ID.3 and in November production commenced at its Zwickau electric vehicle plant. With this major milestone under its belt, the Volkswagen brand is set to play a…
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