Articles tagged "Volkswagen"

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...

VW's teaser campaign for the all-new ID. Buzz was incredibly intense over these past few weeks, and it feels like it has managed to build a significant amount of hype for the company's new electric people mover. And just as expected, today the wraps...

Volkswagen is launching the fully electric version of its iconic van named ID. Buzz later today. The company already shared a couple of teaser images last month and revealed part of the interior last week as well. Yet the van just couldn't stay...

According to Canalys' latest report, the global EV shipments grew 109% in 2021 compared to 2020 and about 85% of those came from Mainland China and Europe. The latter leads the EV adoption with 19% of the total car sales being EVs, while China's...

VW's all-electric ID family just keeps on growing. Today, the German car maker has unveiled the next member of it, in the intriguing coupe shape of the ID.5. This is in fact the company's first electric SUV coupe. The VW ID.5 arrives...