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Volkswagen develops hydrogen car that can travel 2,000 kilometers on one tank
If Volkswagen were in a committed relationship, it would never completely remove Tinder anyway. Volkswagen stated several times that they saw a future exclusively with battery cars, but behind the scenes the brand does not dare to commit itself completely. It turns out that they have even quietly filed a patent for a hydrogen car that can drive 2,000 kilometers on a single tank.
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VW Plans Mass Culling of Combustion Cars, Loftier Margins
Practically every automaker on the planet has begun signaling a desire to change with the times by collectively revising their business strategies.
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Volkswagen’s EV Missteps in China
Volkswagen once acted as leader and educator to help China create its modern auto industry. Its Santana sedan was the beginning of learning about cars for many of China’s first generation of car owners. For decades since Volkswagen entered China in the 1980s it was the top seller almost every year.
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Volkswagen officially unveils its ID.Buzz EV, the hippie bus reborn
The Microbus is back, baby! Nearly 75 years since the first Volkswagen Type 2 rolled off its assembly line and into the annals of Americana as an icon of 1960s counterculture, VW is re-releasing the emblematic vehicle — this time as a full EV.
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2024 Volkswagen ID Buzz electric microbus revealed: less flower, more power
The US version won’t be available until 2024.
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Volkswagen plans 2 bn euro electric car plant in Germany
German auto giant Volkswagen said on Friday it had approved a 2 billion euro investment in a new electric car plant, as it seeks to overhaul its business in the face of stiff competition from US rival Tesla. Construction on the new German factory next to the group's historic home in Wolfsburg will begin "as early as spring 2023" for a production start in 2026, VW said in a statement.
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Greenpeace sues Volkswagen for fuelling the climate crisis and violating future freedom and property rights - Greenpeace International
Braunschweig, Germany – Greenpeace Germany today filed a lawsuit against Volkswagen (VW), the world’s second largest car manufacturer, for failing to decarbonise the company in line with the 1.5°C goal agreed in Paris. At the end of October, VW rejected Greenpeace’s legal demand to reduce its CO2 emissions faster and to phase out internal combustion vehicles by 2030 at the latest.
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Tesla's Musk dials into Volkswagen executive conference
Tesla boss Elon Musk has addressed 200 Volkswagen executives via a video call after an invitation from the German carmaker's CEO Herbert Diess, who wants to galvanise VW's top brass for a faster pivot to electric vehicles.
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EU court adviser finds VW software to alter emissions is illegal
Software Volkswagen AG used to alter pollutant emissions based on the outside temperature and altitude is illegal and cannot be justified by its role in protecting the engine, an adviser to the EU’s top court said on Thursday.
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VW customers will soon have a choice for in-car 4G connectivity
Volkswagen has unveiled a new feature for its Car-Net connected vehicle service that lets you get 4G data from two major US telecoms. Called "Carrier of Choice," it offers the option of Verizon or T-Mobile, making it relatively easy to add your vehicle to an existing mobile plan.
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Volkswagen, BMW fined $1 billion for colluding to make dirtier cars
Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler spent years illegally colluding to slow the deployment of cleaner emissions technology, says the European Union, which is dishing out fines as a result.
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Volkswagen’s BEV sales could beat Tesla’s next year, says Deutsche Bank
With shares up more than 50% so far this year, Volkswagen has been showing its teeth in the red-hot automobile industry race to produce electric vehicles. And by next year, the German auto maker’s battery-electric vehicle (BEV) sales could outpace that of industry giant Tesla TSLA, -3.39%, said Deutsche Bank analysts, who lifted their price target on buy-rated Volkswagen VOW, +0.43% to €270 from €185 per share in a note to clients on Monday.
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VW expects half of U.S. sales to be electric vehicles by 2030
Volkswagen is accelerating its plans for all-electric vehicles in a bid to become “the world’s most desirable brand for sustainable mobility,” a title arguably already owned by Tesla. The German automaker Friday morning said more than 70% of its Volkswagen brand’s European sales will be EVs by 2030, up from a previous target of 35%. In the U.S. and China, it expects half of its sales to be EVs by that time frame.
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VW factory produces last ever combustion engine car, shifts to EVs only
Volkswagen’s Zwickau factory produces its last ever combustion engine vehicle, closing a 116-year chapter on fossil-fuelled cars and switching to EV production, only.
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Volkswagen to hit 1m electric cars milestone two years early
Carmaker says it expects to reach 1m by end of 2023 and 1.5m by end of 2025. Volkswagen has accelerated its push into electric cars, as company forecasts suggest the world’s largest carmaker will produce its millionth battery electric vehicle two years earlier than previously planned.
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33m polluting cars still on EU roads after Dieselgate scandal
Analysis of EU commission figures found diesel cars clean up going at ‘snail’s pace’
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Six Years Ago, He Helped Expose VW’s Diesel Fraud. This Year, G.M. Let Him Go.
Hemanth Kappanna might seem like just another victim of corporate restructuring, a foreign worker whose skills were no longer needed, a middle-aged man with dashed American dreams. But Mr. Kappanna, an engineer born in India who was laid off by General Motors in February, changed automotive history. In 2013, he was part of a small team of engineering students in West Virginia whose research helped expose Volkswagen’s decade-long conspiracy to lie about its diesel cars’ emissions.
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EU accuses BMW, Daimler, and VW of collusion on emissions tech
The European Commission has formally accused BMW, VW, and Daimler of colluding to impede the rollout of emissions limiting technology. These companies, whose car brands include Mercedes, Audi, Volkswagen, Porsche, and BMW, are said to have limited and delayed the use of tech that would have reduced the emissions of diesel and petrol cars.
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Rumormill: The Mk8 Volkswagen Golf GTI will get almost 300 hp
The next (Mk8) Volkswagen Golf is on its way, meaning GTI and hopefully R versions will soon follow. The word on the street today is that it might jump up to 296 hp (300 ps), if the German publication AutoBild is correct.
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Volkswagen Dives Deep Into Electrification, Announces $50 Billion Investment
Volkswagen is scheming an all-out industry assault in order to become the next leader on the electric forefront. On Friday, the automaker said that it would invest $50 billion (44 billion euros) in order to develop electric cars and other new technologies.
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