DPA “We need a counterbalance in the US”: Ford CEO Jim Hackett (r) and Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess know each other well, they agreed at the beginning of the year, together to develop vans and mid-sized pick-ups The speculation about a close cooperation of Volkswagen and ford Autonomous driving and electric car technology have been… Continue reading VW boss Diess wants to expand cooperation with Ford – even with electric cars: “VW is very strongly influenced by Chinese – we need a counterweight in the US”
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Car manufacturers are the largest customer group: weakness of the German car industry also reaches BASF
DPA Paint inspection at Porsche: With a sales share of just under 20 percent, car manufacturers are one of BASF’s most important customers The flagging automobile industry makes the German chemical giant BASF Show stock market chart to accomplish. In the Coatings division, up to 200 jobs will be cut at the Münster site by… Continue reading Car manufacturers are the largest customer group: weakness of the German car industry also reaches BASF
Doubting millions spent with a daughter in the Netherlands: Ghosn affair at Renault – France reimbursed
Behrouz Mehri / AFP Carlos Ghosn: Now he faces the threat in the Netherlands too France has announced legal action in the affair surrounding former Renault top manager Carlos Ghosn. It will be reported, confirmed the French Minister of Economy Bruno Le Maire on Wednesday the TV station BFMTV. If the state is a company… Continue reading Doubting millions spent with a daughter in the Netherlands: Ghosn affair at Renault – France reimbursed
Cooperation agreed: BMW and Jaguar jointly develop an electric motor
BMW and Jaguar Land Rover have a cooperation for the development and production of electric cars agreed. As a result, could be shared costs and economies of scale by higher quantities in production and purchasing can be achieved, said BMW on Wednesday. The goal is also to accelerate development and bring new vehicles faster to… Continue reading Cooperation agreed: BMW and Jaguar jointly develop an electric motor
Works council prevails: Volkswagen excludes redundancies until 2029
Julian Stratenschulte / DPA VW plant in Wolfsburg: Despite the austerity measures VW extends job security for employees in Germany The carmaker Volkswagen Show stock market chart has agreed with the works council on job security for the core brand VW Passenger Cars at all German locations until 2029. This would exclude operational redundancies in… Continue reading Works council prevails: Volkswagen excludes redundancies until 2029
Change in the car industry: Megafusion against the trend – why VW FiatChrysler and Renault does not have to fear
MARCO BERTORELLO and LOIC VENANCE / AFP FiatChrysler and Renault: Cooperations, not mega alliances are the way to the future The change in the automotive world is in full swing. A new race among manufacturers and newcomers has long since begun. However, in the emerging digital and environmentally conscious world, a successful brand no longer… Continue reading Change in the car industry: Megafusion against the trend – why VW FiatChrysler and Renault does not have to fear
Due to weak demand: Bund extends purchase premium for electric cars
Motorists can get a government premium for longer than previously planned when buying electric cars. In order to boost further weak demand, the federal government will extend the premium until the end of 2020. However, the subsidy may expire before the premium pot of a total of 1.2 billion before the end of 2020 is… Continue reading Due to weak demand: Bund extends purchase premium for electric cars
VW is driving forward factory redevelopment in Zwickau: 1500 new robots for Germany’s first e-car factory
Volkswagen Volkswagen’s Future Hope ID.3 Volkswagen drives the Conversion of his work in Zwickau, Saxony to the first pure E-car factory of Germany Ahead. From mid-2020, only electric vehicles will be built on site. It starts with the ID.3, the end of 2019 roll off the line. “It will be converted for a new era,”… Continue reading VW is driving forward factory redevelopment in Zwickau: 1500 new robots for Germany’s first e-car factory
Hall of Fame of the German economy: workers’ leaders and entrepreneurs – united in glory
Wolfgang von Brauchitsch for manager magazin Honor to whom credit is due: Entrepreneurs Susanne Klatten (center) and Stefan Quandt (r.) With mm editor-in-chief Martin Noé. Why the trade unionist Berthold Huber and the BMW major shareholders Susanne Klatten and Stefan Quandt move into the Hall of Fame of the German economy – and find each… Continue reading Hall of Fame of the German economy: workers’ leaders and entrepreneurs – united in glory
Diesel scandal: Bosch has to pay 90 million
Uli deck / DPA Bosch logo: According to the court, the supplier has negligently violated his duty of supervision Also the automotive supplier Bosch must be related to the diesel scandal pay a fine. The public prosecutor’s office in Stuttgart has blasted the company for the negligent violation of the supervisory duty, a sum in… Continue reading Diesel scandal: Bosch has to pay 90 million