DPA The 3rd generation of the mini car Fiat 500 was presented in Milan – including the electric drive The Italians are daring. The FCA group took a local risk at the world premiere of the third generation of the Fiat 500. Because the Geneva Motor Show was canceled, the Italians unveiled the new incarnation… Continue reading Fiat presents electric version of the small car 500: This is how FCA starts the e-age with the Cinquecento
Author: Manager Magazin (German)
Norway and the Netherlands: Tesla sales in top markets collapse
DPA Tesla in Norway: The approvals of the electric car manufacturer in the Scandinavian country recently plummeted. Satisfactory business figures, a skyrocketing stock price and critics who, if they had Tesla shares, sometimes lost a lot of money: Tesla boss Elon Musk recently had a real run. But these figures should hardly please the entrepreneur:… Continue reading Norway and the Netherlands: Tesla sales in top markets collapse
More than 10,000 technicians fight for a solution: Volkswagen’s massive problems with the flagship electric car ID.3
Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg, hall 74, 8.30 a.m. Software experts, engineers and top managers meet here every working day for a half-hour morning round. Sometimes there are around 50, sometimes up to 100. Head of Development Frank Welsch (55) is regularly there, as are Digital Director Christian Senger (45) and Thomas Ulbrich (53), who is… Continue reading More than 10,000 technicians fight for a solution: Volkswagen’s massive problems with the flagship electric car ID.3
Car maker slips into the red: Nissan crisis hits Renault
Christian Hartmann / REUTERS Renault slips into the red The crisis at Nissan Show stock market chart leaves deep traces on partner Renault Show stock market chart, The French carmaker reported a loss of 141 million euros for the past year and cut the dividend for shareholders, including the French state. On Friday, management cited… Continue reading Car maker slips into the red: Nissan crisis hits Renault
Daimler CEO Källenius presents future strategy: “The next three years will be a sack full of work”
Annual profit: slumped by a third. The dividend: from 3.25 euros per share to 90 cents. Employee bonuses: plummeted to around EUR 1,000 after around EUR 5,000 the previous year. Daimler’s head of office Ola Källenius, who has been in office since May 2019, has had a catastrophic start – you can’t say it otherwise.… Continue reading Daimler CEO Källenius presents future strategy: “The next three years will be a sack full of work”
Delivery bottlenecks and price jumps threaten: Why the auto industry is heading for a battery crisis
When Ola Källenius (50) praises the first electric Mercedes EQC, as he must do as a Daimler boss, it sounds like bitter irony to many of his colleagues. Källenius recently spoke of the EQC as hot goods that “customers would have to wait nine to twelve months for”. That sounds good, but, as the Daimler… Continue reading Delivery bottlenecks and price jumps threaten: Why the auto industry is heading for a battery crisis
Tesla now more valuable than Volkswagen: How Elon Musk made hunters out of hunters
Tesla is now the most valuable American car brand with a market cap of over $ 100 billion – and more valuable than Volkswagen, This is all the more impressive when you consider that only eight years have passed since the introduction of the Tesla Model S, Tesla currently only offers three models and is… Continue reading Tesla now more valuable than Volkswagen: How Elon Musk made hunters out of hunters
Possible new Renault boss Luca de Meo: This man could inherit Carlos Ghosn
REUTERS Luca de Meo at a car presentation French car maker Renault has had a pretty disastrous 2019. Sales fell 3.4 percent worldwide. And also the scandal surrounding Carlos Ghosn ex-boss of the company who has since fled to Lebanon, is likely to keep the company busy in the current year. In order to get… Continue reading Possible new Renault boss Luca de Meo: This man could inherit Carlos Ghosn
Electric mobility: VW only wants money from the state for a limited time
Julian Stratenschulte / DPA VW electric car ID.3: State aid in the “initial ignition” The car maker Volkswagen (VW) only sees the need for state subsidies for electric cars in the early days. “We are committed to the start phase of the switch to E-mobility to promote. That is necessary in order to implement economically… Continue reading Electric mobility: VW only wants money from the state for a limited time
The fire speech by VW boss Herbert Diess in the wording: “Volkswagen is in the middle of a storm”
Ronny Hartmann / dpa VW CEO Herbert Diess, the conversion of Volkswagen is going too slowly VW executives should shake these words: At the “Global Board Meeting” of the VolkswagenGroup on January 16, 2020, CEO Herbert Diess warned that the automaker would lack “speed and courage” for “radical change of direction”. Volkswagen, so Diess, must… Continue reading The fire speech by VW boss Herbert Diess in the wording: “Volkswagen is in the middle of a storm”