Diess To Stay On As Volkswagen CEO, Brandstaeter Gets Larger Role
Herbert Diess will stay on at Volkswagen thanks to support from the company’s largest shareholders.
Herbert Diess will stay on at Volkswagen thanks to support from the company’s largest shareholders.
Herbert Diess has annoyed the labor unions at Volkswagen with his warnings about job losses, but is he wrong?
Originally posted on EVANNEX. By Charles Morris Recently, Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess and VW brand chief Ralf Brandstätter called 120 top-level executives to company HQ in Wolfsburg for a crisis meeting. The two leaders announced the launch of a “struggle against Grünheide.” Grünheide is the town just outside of Berlin that’s … [continued]
Herbert Diess is calling for major changes at Volkswagen’s Wolfsburg factory to keep up with Tesla and new brands from China.
Volkswagen ID.4 production just started today in Zwickau, Germany. It is first being produced at the Volkswagen Group factory there that just recently produced its last fossil fuel vehicle, after 116 years of operation. The factory is now focused on producing electric vehicles. The ID.3 was the first, and now the ID.4 is in production.
The promise of autonomous vehicles that drive humans safely and reliably in every condition and place in the world is an inspiration for humankind, and if realized will open the door to unprecedented productivity gains and not-seen-before profits.
In what seems to be an obvious snub toward electric vehicles, Audi’s new CEO, Markus Duesmann, said the company will continue to “massively” invest in combustion engines.
1) What is Volkswagen’s commitment to electric vehicles (EVs) going to be following the CEO switch and all the Group drama, and 2) how is Volkswagen going to try to solve its software crisis?