Articles tagged "Volkswagen"

Volkswagen announced that it will reveal a new addition to its electric vehicle lineup at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on January 3 at 4 pm Pacific Standard Time (PST). The company has not specified which electric vehicle it will be...

Elli is VW’s answer to a fragmented EV charging market across Europe. The company decided to bring as many charging providers and brands under its own umbrella and offer VW owners simplified access to EV charging infrastructure regardless of...

In an interesting interview, Volkswagen's boss Thomas Schäfer said that the Golf lineup and the GTI designation will continue to exist outside the ICE era. The current 8th-generation Golf's retirement is planned for 2027-2028. The next generation...

Not only is Volkswagen's infotainment system not the most beloved out there for its ergonomics (or lack thereof), but now it seems the software is also plagued with a myriad of bugs, at least for the models delivered in China. Many owners of the...

Thomas Schafer has been in charge of Volkswagen since July, but they have been busy 3 months for him and for the company. First were the touch controls - unresponsive at best and outright annoying and dangerous at worst. The company already...

Volkswagen CEO Thomas Schafer has some big words to say about self-driving cars, despite the fact that Argo, a US-based startup working in this field, in which VW invested more than $2.6 billion in 2019, is shutting down. Schafer says VW is...

VW has implemented its ACCELERATE strategy a while ago and it is already paying dividends. The focus on emissions-free vehicles, increased production and new, “electric roadmap” are driving sales and deliveries up and the company managed to achieve...

VW announced that during the pre-sale period it has sold over 20,000 units of ID.Buzz, the company did not provide details on how many units of each version - Cargo or passenger - were sold. The pre-sale went live before the car was available at the...

Volkswagen previously stated that it would start selling only EVs by 2035, but the company's CEO Thomas Schäfer now said the company will be ready with the transition by 2033. In a recent interview he gave for Automotive News he outlined some...

Volkswagen is planning to team up with a Chinese developer of advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous driving software Horizon Robotics. The German automaker hopes the €2 billion joint venture will close the gap between VW and other...

A market research for September in Germany shows some promising results for the automotive industry in the country. The total amount of cars sold in September 2022 compared to the same month in 2021 grew 14,1% and 19.7% of those are fully...

Today Volkswagen Group's new battery company, PowerCo, entered a joint venture with Umicore for battery materials production in Europe. The new company will be based in Brussels and will invest 3 billion euros (of which half will come from PowerCo...

VW ID Buzz went on sale in Europe not so long ago and the entire production for 2023 is pretty much sold out. Customers across the pond though are still waiting with no indication of when the sales will start. What is even more interesting, is a...

Norway has been at the very edge of the electric car revolution for a while now. It has made some really friendly policies towards EV buyers, perhaps even hurting the economy a bit, which brought the cutting back of certain incentives. Even so the...

Last month we heard that VW would offer a US-built ID.4 with a smaller battery and lower price, for the 2023 model year, and today the company made the news official. The base model, called ID.4 Standard, starts at $37,495 and has a 62 kWh...

To fully understand what went on at Volkswagen we need to take a little closer look at the company as it is unlike many other automakers. First and foremost VW is a family business, it has been since day one and every company officer has always been...

Volkswagen is expanding into the global battery business with its new factory that will be built in Salzgitter, Germany. The company has officially broken ground on the new facility which is the first out of six it plans to build across...

If you want a Volkswagen EV and haven't yet placed your order, and you live in Europe or the US, here's some bad news for you. According to a new report from the Financial Times, quoting VW CEO Herbert Diess, the company has sold out of EVs for the...

VW's ID. Buzz electric van definitely saw a lot of... excuse the pun... Buzz lately, and so in honor of World Design Day (which apparently is a thing), the company decided to showcase something really out there. We're talking about an ID. Buzz...

VW's MEB EV platform is due to get some enhancements soon, according to a presentation by Dr. Silke Bagschik, the company's head of sales and marketing for the ID. family. The MEB platform is what the ID.3, ID.4, ID.5, and ID. Buzz all use. Future...