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ArticleautomotiveIT Congress: Audi's sets 2015 target of 1 million connected vehicles
Mattias Ulbrich (Photo: Claus Dick)HANOVER - Audi wants to have 1 million connected Audi vehicles by 2015, up from 200,000 at present, the premium car maker's CIO, Mattias Ulbrich, said Thursday.The premium car maker offers an "Audi connect" package that offers a range of connectivity services, including navigation with ...
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ArticleAutomotiveIT Congress: IT boss says Porsche is "fast follower" with connected-car services
Porsche's Lorenz says cars will continue to be sold by dealers (Photo: Claus Dick)HANOVER - Porsche is moving slower with the implementation of car connectivity than the premium auto makers, the brand's IT manager, Sven Lorenz, said Thursday."That's because our drivers really want to drive, rather than play," Lorenz ...
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ArticleVW to build 1-liter XL1 plug-in hybrid
The XL1 is based on a 12-year old vision of VW Chairman Piech (Photo: VW)Volkswagen said it will build the 1 liter XL1 plug-in hybrid, a pet project of its chairman, Ferdinand Piech,The car, first shown at the Qatar auto show in January, 2011, is based on a 12-year-old ...
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ArticleAudi grows in China
Audi's digital showroom in Beijing is the first of its kind in Asia (Photo: Audi)Audi opened a new r&d center as well as a digital showroom in China, underscoring the importance of the world's largest auto market to the German premium car brand.The Volkswagen Group subsidiary opened its first ...
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FeatureAutomotiveIT Newsletter: An interview with VW CIO Martin Hofmann
CIO Hofmann wants Volkswagen to have the best IT in the auto industry (Photo: Claus Dick)After a decade working for the Volkswagen Group in various positions, Martin Hofmann became CIO of Europe's largest carmaker a year ago.He took on the position at a time when VW is trying to ...
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ArticleVW inaugurates solar park in Chattanooga
The Chattanooga facility is the largest of VW's solar parks (Photo: VW)Volkswagen has inaugurated its largest solar park worldwide at its plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee.The German carmaker said the solar park has a peak output of 9.5 megawatts and will generate power to build the US version of the ...
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ArticleADAC ranks front lighting systems
Germany's ADAC says new lighting technology improves safety (Photo: ADAC)The new Volkswagen Golf has the best front lighting system among competitors in the lower-medium-sized segments, according to a recent test.The ADAC, Germany's largest automobile club, looked at the relative merits of the various systems and concluded that the Golf's ...
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ArticleFormer VW CIO Muehleck to head IT at Thyssen Krupp
Klaus-Hardy MuehleckFormer Volkswagen Group CIO Klaus-Hardy Muehleck will take over as head of all IT operations at  Thyssen Krupp, a spokesperson for the German German engineering and steel group said Tuesday.Muehleck, 58, will assume his new responsibilities on January 1, 2013, taking over from Hans-Guenter Gaul. Gaul will ...
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ArticleReport: Audi plans to invest 3 billion euros in China
Audi showed its new Q3 SUV at the Beijing auto show in April, 2012 (Photo: Audi)With demand for its cars surging, Audi plans to invest 3 billion euros in China in the next five years, according to a report in the government-owned China Daily.The newspaper, citing an interview with ...
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ArticleAudi's new computer center goes online
Audi's new computing center is cooled by outside air when outside temperatures fall below 11 degrees (Photo: Audi)Audi switched on a new computer center it says will set new standards for green IT.The center, located at the premium car maker's headquarters in Ingolstadt, southern Germany, hosts all main IT ...
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ArticleVW launches online customer publication
VW's new magazine is available on a broad range of devices (Photo: VW)Volkswagen Group is reaching out to digital customers with the publication of a new international brand magazine.The German automotive group is launching "Das Auto.Magazine" online in six languages at www.dasauto-magazine.com. It will appear at regular intervals and ...
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ArticleVolvo Cars appoints Hakan Samuelsson as new CEO
Former MAN CEO Samuelsson has 35 years of auto-industry experience (Photo: MAN)Volvo Cars has appointed former MAN boss Hakan Samuelsson CEO of the Swedish automaker, succeeding Stefan Jacoby, who suffered a mild stroke in September.Jacoby will leave the company "after an amicable agreement," Volvo said.The appointment of Samuelsson, a ...
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ArticlecarIT Congress: Car connectivity is core competency at VW
VW won't become a content provider to the connected car, Tanneberger says (Photo: automotiveIT)HANOVER ”“ Providing well-integrated car connectivity, though a relatively new area for Volkswagen Group and other carmakers, is a core competency for Europe's largest automotive group, a senior executive said Tuesday.Volkmar Tanneberger, executive director responsible for ...
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ArticleMAN appoints Volkswagen IT executive as new CIO
Stephan Fingerling joins MAN from controlling shareholder VWGerman truck maker MAN has appointed a Volkswagen executive as its new CIO, underlining the tightening control of the German car group over the Munich-based truck maker and engineering company.Stephan Fingerling, who most recently served as CIO of VW's American operations for Volkswagen ...
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ArticleVolkswagen unveils latest Golf
Volkswagen has unveiled the latest generation of its signature Golf model. Here are some pictures of the German carmaker's best-selling model.[nggallery id=8]
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ArticleVW opens r&d center in California
VW executives were joined by local political and community leaders at the festive opening (Photo: VW)Volkswagen has opened a new 27 million-dlr r&d center in Oxnard California, where it will focus on powertrain and systems development, governmental compliance and field quality testing.The German carmaker said the 64,000 square-foot facility, which ...
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ArticleProliferation of small city vehicles seen by 2018
Can VW’s bik.e replace the spare tire? (Photo: VW)Global automakers will launch more than 150 new small city vehicles in the next eight years, with global mainstream car companies set to start production of 60 of them before 2018, according to a recent study by Frost & Sullivan."Growing urbanization and ...
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ArticleAudi virtual London showroom is first of many worldwide
Audi buyers can digitally inspect the brand’s entire lineup in a new virtual showroom in London (Photo: Audi)Audi inaugurated a virtual showroom in downtown London and promised to open more than 20 similar outlets worldwide by 2015.The so-called Audi City concept lets Audi show and sell cars in attractive city-center ...
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ArticleVW acquires all of Porsche
Porsche recently launched its new Boxster S (Photo: Porsche)Volkswagen Group is buying the 50.1 pc of Porsche it doesn't already own, paving the way for the full integration of the sports car maker into Europe's largest automotive company.Volkswagen will pay 4.46 billion euros and one VW share to Porsche SE, ...
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ArticleVW appoints Telekom exec to head IT security
Guenther Nast (Photo: VW)Volkswagen Group has appointed Guenther Nast head of IT security.The 47 year old informatics graduate took up his new position with the carmaker June 29. He joins VW from Deutsche Telekom, where he served most recently as senior vice president for data and IT security.VW's human resources ...
