All Volkswagen articles
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ArticleDigital tools, including bots, mark the advent of a new era in automotive purchasing
Purchasing departments need to be re-oriented and open to digital tools. Otherwise, the competitiveness of automakers and their supplier partners will be at risk.
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ArticleDigital manufacturing: Volkswagen opens 3D printing center, BMW tools up for i4 production
Image: Volkswagen Volkswagen has added a 3D printing center to its Toolmaking unit in Wolfsburg, to make complex vehicle components both for prototyping and then series production. It features new-generation HP-supplied printers with a fast, flexible binder jetting process; this supplements the selective laser melting (SLM) process used ...
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ArticleVW will introduce last ICE platform in 2026, but some vehicles could still be in production late as 2050
Michael Jost, head of strategy, Volkswagen Volkswagen has announced that it will release what it says will be its final diesel and petrol platforms in 2026, paving the way for an all-EV future, according to Bloomberg. The announcement came at an industry conference ...
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ArticleVolkswagen takes investment in Diconium for digital services, starts Open Source Lab, partners with Cinemo for in-car media
Image: Volkswagen The Volkswagen Group has acquired 49pc of the shares in Diconium, a German digital specialist. Diconium is to become a technology partner to develop new digital business models and services offered via the Microsoft-enabled Volkswagen Automotive Cloud, building on the Volkswagen We ecosystem. Based in Stuttgart, ...
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ArticleVolkswagen announces self-driving MaaS venture in Israel, joins Baidu Apollo consortium in China; Volvo also to collaborate with Baidu
Image: Volkswagen Volkswagen Group is to establish a self-driving Mobility as a Service (MaaS) venture in Israel with partners Mobileye and Champion Motors. It will provide a fleet of electric vehicles for the New Mobility in Israel operation; Mobileye will provide its Level 4 AV hardware, map data, ...
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ArticleVolkswagen outlines its sales transformation plan
Image: Volkswagen Volkswagen has outlined its plan to restructure and digitalize its sales model. From spring 2020, it intends to expand its online business, including direct online sales, and to target customers via some different sales locations. Underpinning this will be a system of unique Volkswagen customer IDs, ...
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ArticleFord, Honda and Volkswagen get smarter at crossroads
Image: FordFord, Honda and Volkswagen have demonstrated or announced vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2X) trials this week. These are all intended to explore technologies to ease traffic congestion, smooth out traffic flow and increase safety and efficiency; and while they currently involve alerts (and later, interventions) to human drivers, ...
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ArticleVolkswagen develops simulations for virtual validation
Volkswagen is trialling virtual test-drive simulations with a view to shortening development and validation times for driver assistance systems. These are to ‘teach’ the cars, potentially cutting the costs of physical testing as well as accelerating the learning speed of the systems themselves, since the simulations can run continuously. Fewer ...
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ArticleVolkswagen investing €3.5 billion into digital transformation, stresses role of software
We Share launch in BerlinImage: VolkswagenVolkswagen has confirmed an investment of over €3.5 billion into a digitization initiative to 2025. At a press conference in Berlin, executives outlined the strategy and a series of measures to speed up the development of its digital ecosystem.Jürgen Stackmann, Volkswagen brand board member, ...
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ArticleVolkswagen, Renault and PSA all announce new car-sharing and mobility services
Image: VolkswagenVolkswagen will launch a fleet of shared electric vehicles in Germany next year, with international roll-out of its car-sharing services from 2020. Expanding Volkswagen’s ‘We’ customer platform, the mobility service will focus initially on cities in Europe, North America and Asia.Jürgen Stackmann, Volkswagen brand board member for sales, ...
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ArticleVW Group of America joins Networking for Autonomous Vehicles Alliance
Image: BusinessWireVolkswagen Group of America has joined Aquantia, Robert Bosch, Continental and Nvidia to form the Networking for Autonomous Vehicles (NAV) Alliance. The group intends to support the development of multi-gigabit ethernet networking in vehicles, and of its related ecosystem of cameras, sensors, gateways, data storage devices, control systems, ...
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ArticleVolkswagen reports successful simulation using quantum computing
Image: Volkswagen Volkswagen has used a quantum computer to successfully simulate molecules such as lithium-hydrogen and carbon chains, and says that this is an important step in developing batteries for electric vehicles. It is now to move onto simulating more complex chemical compounds, with the aim of creating ...
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ArticleVolkswagen opens Konnect co-working campus in Tel Aviv to support tech start-ups
Konnect, the new Volkswagen Group Campus in Tel Aviv, Israel, has been opened to provide a co-working space for local tech start-ups and to support collaborations. Themes for the work to take place there include connectivity, smart navigation, sensors, simulators, cybersecurity, e-mobility and big data, with a view to pushing ...
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ArticleVolkswagen implements AR in digitized training programs, AI in business admin
Future Training Forum, Wolfsburg, 2018 Image: VolkswagenVolkswagen has held its first Future Training Forum in Wolfsburg to discuss issues including the digitalization of its vocational training programmes and future learning environments. Conference participants included board members, human resources managers, training experts, Works Council members, young people’s representatives and apprentices, ...
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ArticleVolkswagen announces multiple digitalization and new mobility investments in China
VW showed the first member of its SOL range, the SOL E20X, at the Beijing Auto Show (Image: VW)Volkswagen Group has announced direct investments of around 15 billion euros into e-mobility, autonomous driving, business digitalization and new mobility services in China, part of a 34 billion euro global program. ...
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ArticleVW Group appoints Diess CEO; reorganizes company
Diess came from BMW in 2015 to head the core VW brand (Photo: VW)Volkswagen Group appointed Herbert Diess CEO and announced a far-reaching reorganization of the 12 brand automotive group.Diess will retain his position as head of the core Volkswagen brand, but will take over responsibility for all group ...
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FeatureVolkswagen R&D chief: "We are reworking our entire development process"
Ulrich Eichhorn heads up Volkswagen Group’s R&D operations, and discusses impacts for vehicle development from artificial intelligence and electrification, and explanins how digital tools and data are changing engineering processes.
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ArticleLamborghini opens carbon fiber research unit in Seattle
Lamborghini showed a car with carbon-fiber bodywork at the Geneva auto show (Photo: Lamborghini)Lamborghini has opened a new research facility in Seattle that aims to find more applications for car fiber in the construction of its cars.The high-performance sports car brand, which is part of Germany's Volkswagen Group, said ...
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FeatureautomotiveIT publishes book about car industry's future
MUNICH ”“ Germany's Media-Manufaktur has published a book that provides an in-depth look at how the world's biggest car companies are preparing for an era of new mobility.The German business publisher, parent company of automotiveIT and automotiveIT international, said the new 88-page ”“ English-language ”“ book is titled “Automotive 4.0 ...
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ArticleVW Group to invest 50 billion euros over next 3 years
Volkswagen Group plans to invest 50.2 billion euros in the next three years to strengthen competitiveness and safeguard its future."Despite the challenging economic environment, we are investing more than ever before to reach our long-term goals,” said Martin Winterkorn, CEO of Europe's largest automotive group.The plan covers investment for the ...
