German automaker Volkswagen has invested $300m in Israeli ride hailing provider, Gett, which competes with Uber, Lyft, and Didi Chuxing. Volkswagen's investment comes months after General Motors injected $500m into privately held American ...
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The Volkswagen Group is exploiting possibilities of digitalization as the company believes that IT will play an important role in its future operations. At the Group IT symposium held in Wolfsburg, Germany, members of the Volkswagen Group ...
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As part of the brand exhibit "Fascination Sports Cars – The Future of Performance", Porsche is presenting seven select show cars at the Volkswagen Group Forum DRIVE in Berlin – for example the 718 Boxster. As part of this ...
Audi has announced to start production of its fully electric SUV in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, starting 2018. This move came as Audi's reshuffle of its operations across Europe as the company tries to focus on electric vehicle ...
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Modern direct-shift production at the KODA Vrchlabí plant has received an intelligent assistant: An innovative lightweight robot is now aiding employees in the 'gear actuator piston insertion' manufacturing step. This is the first ...
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Volkswagen has announced that it has found out the 2016 models affected by the CO2 issue which involves around 430,000 vehicles belonging to Audi, SEAT, Skoda and Volkswagen brands. The company said that these vehicles have "implausible ...
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The world's first front end carrier without metal reinforcement has now leapt across the platforms: The Volkswagen Group is using the front end carrier made from the BASF plastic Ultramid in the new Passat and Sharan models – after ...
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The Volkswagen Group wants to cut energy consumption. The target is 25 per cent less by 2018. To help achieve this, a pump control system from Grundfos has been installed at the production plant in Braunschweig. The sun reflects in the ...
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German automobile major Volkswagen (VW) is set to undergo a restructuring process that will ultimately end up splitting the firm into four holding companies for managing its 12 brands. In what has been dubbed as decentralization of ...
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The Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand delivered 2.48 (January-May 2014: 2.55; -3.0 percent) million vehicles from January to May this year. 499,500 (May 2014: 531,100; -5.9 percent) vehicles were handed over to customers in May. Commenting ...
German automobile major Volkswagen has started production at its new plant at Changsha in China’s Hunan Province, adding an output capacity of 300,000 cars a year. Located about 900km to the west of Shanghai, the plant will begin ...
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Spanish automaker SEAT has announced that it will hire 100 engineers over the next six months to reinforce the projects under development at SEAT’s Technical Centre (CTS) in Spain. The engineers are expected to work towards the ...
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Scania is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of trucks and cfor heavy transport applications, and of industrial and marine engines. Core to Scania’s operations is to provide solid parts and service support as well as ...
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Audi has introduced a robot at its A4/A5/Q5 assembly lines at the Ingolstadt plant in Germany which is expected to work hand-in-hand with humans. The robot dubbed 'PART4you' is designed to make ergonomic improvements in the assembly and ...
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Skoda has launched its new Skoda Superb will be premiered at the Geneva Motor Show. The company has used the design of the Skoda VisionC show car into series production which uses the modular transverse matrix (MQB) from the Volkswagen ...