​Volkswagen employees have come up with something whimsical for the turn of the year and compiled the "Volkswagen Business Dictionary". It contains idioms from everyday business life with quite idiosyncratic new interpretations not only for VW employees.

The Volkswagen Group's "Technical Development" department has developed its own dictionary. The unofficial reference work with the name "Business Dictionary Volkswagen" looks like a conventional Langenscheidt...

A solution is emerging in the power struggle at Volkswagen. According to insiders, Volkswagen boss Herbert Diess can continue to run the Wolfsburg-based group, but has to give up power. The solution apparently provides, among other things, that VW brand boss Ralf Brandstätter ascends to the group's board of directors.


Both the news agency Reuters and the "Handelsblatt" quote sources close to the group, according to which it is going in the direction of "that...

Volkswagen's US subsidiary Electrify America has now equipped more than 140 fast-charging locations with stationary battery storage, over 90 of them in California. These systems have a total of more than 30 megawatts of energy storage capacity.


The battery energy storage systems (BESS) are used to cover peaks in demand and thus minimize the effects on the power grid. In addition, they can be recharged when electricity prices are low - and thus help the company, according to its...

The start of the order on June 17 was already known, at the start of delivery of the ID.3 there was no precise information so far - not only because of the software problems. According to Volkswagen, the final schedule is now set.


Relatively exactly one year after its premiere at the IAA 2019 , the first copies of the ID.3 are to be delivered to pre-orders. Initially, these are only 1st edition vehicles. When pre-ordering, these customers had already paid a reservation fee of...

Audi has launched a new project called Artemis. The core of the project is the development of new technologies around electric, highly automated driving with a specific model reference. The first step is to “quickly and unbureaucratically develop a pioneering model”.

Markus Duesmann mobilized a team of automotive and technology experts for the task just two months after taking up the position of CEO at Audi, headed by Alex Hitzinger, chief motorsport engineer and currently driver...

Volkswagen has officially confirmed its plan to increase its stake in JAC Volkswagen, its joint venture for electromobility, and to invest around one billion euros in this. The Wolfsburg-based company is getting a Chinese battery specialist for another billion.


With this amount, Wolfsburg cover two actions at once. On the one hand, they increase their stake in the JAC Volkswagen joint venture from 50 to 75 percent and thus take control of the management. Secondly, VW takes over...