Focus on automotive: Volkswagen
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07/25/2019Since the end of 2002, the Touareg has been an integral part of Volkswagen’s model range. The company presents a stylish special model to celebrate the production of one million Touaregs. Its special features include completely new paintwork, two new types of wheel rim, high-quality sill panel trims and a badge on the B-pillar bearing the words... -
07/20/2019Volkswagen will end production of the Golf SportWagen and Golf Alltrack wagons at the end of 2019, leaving the brand's U.S. dealers wagonless for the first time since 1965. The wagons are victims of the growth of crossovers, which now account for more than half of Volkswagen's sales in the U.S. The brand plans to add three crossovers over the... -
07/15/2019Pre-series production of the ID.31 has already begun at the Volkswagen plant in Zwickau. The core components for electric cars are developed and produced for the new electric vehicles at the Volkswagen Group Components plants: the electric drive comes from Kassel, the Salzgitter plant supplies its colleagues in Hessen with rotors and stators. The... -
07/12/2019With the end of Beetle output, Volkswagen will begin producing the Tarek small crossover at its plant in the Mexican state of Puebla in 2020 and sales will start by the end of 2021, Volkswagen of Mexico Ceo Steffen Reiche said on Wednesday. The vehicle, discussed with U.S. dealers at the NADA convention in January, is expected to be slotted below... -
07/09/2019The first electric race car, the Volkswagen ID.R, has made motorsport history again by setting a new all-time record at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Romain Dumas completed the 1.86-kilometre track in the south of England in just 39.90 seconds. In doing so, the 500-kW (680-PS) electric race car breaks long-standing Formula 1 record by 1,7... -
06/25/2019Volkswagen has opened a new IT Development Center today in its Gläserne Manufaktur in Dresden. In Software Development Center Production, up to 80 newly hired IT specialists will be working on the Volkswagen Industrial Cloud. In the future, the Industrial Cloud will link all 122 Group-wide Volkswagen production facilities. The goal is to... -
06/20/2019Volkswagen will launch production of the ID.31 before the year is out. The compact-class model is the first member of the ID. family, a new generation of Volkswagen's progressive electric vehicles. The future owners of ID. models won’t need to worry about the durability of their batteries either, as Volkswagen will guarantee that the batteries...