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VW-led research team to recycle batteries multiple times for...
08 June 2022
WOLFSBURG: Partners from the industrial and scientific communities want to jointly prove that the most valuable components of traction batteries can be recovered and reused several...
Volkswagen's race with Tesla will be tight, says Diess
01 June 2022
BERLIN: Tesla works at twice the industry pace in many processes but still needs to ramp up highly complex factories and find qualified workers to win the electric vehicle race, Vo...
New VW Amarok boasts standard Matrix headlights
28 May 2022
HANNOVER: Lights on and curtain up for the new Amarok. When Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles’ premium pick-up celebrates its premiere, the LED lights fitted as standard will be one o...
VW unveils two 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' inspired ID. Buzz vehicles a...
27 May 2022
WASHINGTON: Two special ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ inspired Volkswagen ID. Buzz vehicles are part of this year’s Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, California (May 26-29), part of the brand’s...
VW Touareg is 20 years old, special-edition model revealed
24 May 2022
WOLFSBURG: Volkswagen is celebrating 20 years of the Touareg with the Touareg “EDITION 20”. This special-edition model will join the premium SUV model family from mid-June 2022 ...
Majority of VW dealerships in Malaysia are now 4S centres
20 May 2022
KUALA LUMPUR: Volkswagen Passenger Cars Malaysia (VPCM) today announced that all its authorised dealerships in Peninsular Malaysia are now either 3S or 4S centres. This is part ...
VW launching ID.5 SUV coupe by end of May
15 May 2022
BERLIN: VW is gearing up to launch a more coupé-like version of the ID.4 electric SUV, bringing with it a sleeker design, smarter software and a slightly longer range of up to 520k...
Volkswagen's EV profit margins to match combustion engines s...
12 May 2022
BERLIN: Volkswagen expects its electric vehicle business to be as profitable as its fossil fuel-burning cars sooner than planned, its chief executive Herbert Diess said today. V...
VW to challenge Rivian, Ford with electric Scout SUV
11 May 2022
A 1969 International Harvester Scout 800. — Photo from Barrett-Jackson HAMBURG/WASHINGTON: Volkswagen plans to re-introduce the Scout off-road brand in the United States offering...
VW boss expects tight race with Tesla for e-car crown by 202...
09 May 2022
FRANKFURT: Volkswagen faces a tough road ahead to reach its self-imposed target of becoming the world's largest seller of electric vehicles by 2025, its chief executive said today,...
VW shares first details of its Amarok pick-up collaboration ...
04 May 2022
BERLIN: Little is known about VW's long-awaited plans to update its Amarok pick-up, but the company has now begun to share the first details about a new cross-atlantic collaboratio...
VW and BP could expand e-car charging alliance to other regi...
01 May 2022
DUESSELDORF: Europe's top carmaker Volkswagen and oil major BP plan to deepen their electric charging partnership and could expand it to other regions and technologies, their CEOs ...
VW aims for EV range of 700km
17 April 2022
WOLFSBURG: As part of Volkswagen's goal to bring electric vehicles into the mainstream, it's working on raising the EV range of its MEB-based vehicles to 700km. It is also seeki...
Check out VW Tiguan Allspace at 1Utama
15 April 2022
PETALING JAYA: Volkswagen Passenger Cars Malaysia has set up a pop-up store at the 1 Utama Shopping Centre here to promote the Tiguan Allspace R-Line 4MOTION and Elegance. The s...
Workers locked in idle Shanghai VW factory get movies, walks
13 April 2022
SHANGHAI: Workers locked in Volkswagen AG’s Shanghai factory are getting movie nights and scheduled exercise to keep them entertained after production was idled by the city’s prolo...
Chip shortage to last until 2024, says Volkswagen CFO
10 April 2022
BERLIN: Semiconductor chip supply is unlikely to be enough to completely satisfy demand again until 2024, Volkswagen chief financial officer (CFO) Arno Antlitz said in an interview...
New boss for Skoda amid reshuffle at Volkswagen Group
08 April 2022
Zellmer to head Skoda. PRAGUE: Volkswagen's Czech subsidiary Skoda is getting a new boss after less than two years: the VW core brand's head of sales, Klaus Zellmer, is moving to ...
VW to scrap whopping 60% of combustion engine models and foc...
06 April 2022
BERLIN: Volkswagen will axe many combustion engine models by the end of the decade and sell fewer cars overall to concentrate on producing more profitable premium vehicles, its fin...
Volkswagen to recall more than 100,000 cars on fire risk
01 April 2022
BERLIN: Volkswagen Group will have to recall more than 100,000 plug-in hybrid vehicles globally due to the risk of fire, said a spokesman for the German carmaker. Some 42,300 ow...
Giga-casting and robots: How Volkswagen's Trinity aims to ca...
31 March 2022
BERLIN: As Tesla kicks off production at its new German plant this month, Volkswagen is weeks away from finalising plans for a 2 billion euro electric vehicle (EV) factory that it ...