German Manager Magazine: Volkswagen: VW and Seat swap financial directors. Patrik Andreas Mayer goes to Spain.003551

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German Manager Magazine: Volkswagen: VW boss Oliver Blume announces further cost-cutting measures003550

After the announcement of the Volkswagen-Group’s plan to further tighten austerity measures with job cuts and possible factory closures at the core VW brand, group board member Oliver Blume (56) describes the poor economic situation at Volkswagen as alarming. At the VW brand, the situation is “so serious that you can’t just let everything continue… Continue reading German Manager Magazine: Volkswagen: VW boss Oliver Blume announces further cost-cutting measures003550

German Manager Magazine: SUVs and pick-up trucks seem safe, but they kill more people than they protect003549

Monster vehicles The killer cars from America Anyone who drives a huge pickup truck or SUV that weighs tons feels safe. But this safety comes at a monstrous price: the number of fatalities in small compact cars that collide with such heavyweights has risen sharply. Is road safety becoming a question of your own wallet?… Continue reading German Manager Magazine: SUVs and pick-up trucks seem safe, but they kill more people than they protect003549

German Manager Magazine: Fall in the price of tech stocks on the stock market: Nasdaq, Dow and Dax and Bitcoin with high losses003548

Economic concerns and a disappointing outlook from chip giant Broadcom   weighed heavily on the US stock markets on Friday. Technology stocks, which had already plummeted on Tuesday, were once again hit particularly hard. The technology-heavy Nasdaq 100 lost 2.7 percent to 18,421 points on Friday. On a weekly basis, this results in a loss… Continue reading German Manager Magazine: Fall in the price of tech stocks on the stock market: Nasdaq, Dow and Dax and Bitcoin with high losses003548

German Manager Magazine: SUVs and pick-up trucks in traffic accidents: The killer cars from America003547

Monster vehicles The killer cars from America Anyone who drives a huge pickup truck or SUV that weighs tons feels safe. But this safety comes at a monstrous price: the number of fatalities in small compact cars that collide with such heavyweights has risen sharply. Is road safety becoming a question of your own wallet?… Continue reading German Manager Magazine: SUVs and pick-up trucks in traffic accidents: The killer cars from America003547

German Manager Magazine: Volkswagen: Stephan Weil calls for the purchase bonus for electric cars to be returned003546

Lower Saxony’s Prime Minister Stephan Weil (65, SPD) has said against the background of the slow sales of Electric cars called for the state purchase premium to be reinstated. From his point of view, this would be “very helpful” because we must above all “think about private consumers with smaller wallets,” Weil told the “Neue… Continue reading German Manager Magazine: Volkswagen: Stephan Weil calls for the purchase bonus for electric cars to be returned003546

German Manager Magazine: Auto industry: German car manufacturers record drastic decline in domestic sales003545

The Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) expects increasingly difficult conditions for German car manufacturers in the home market. “The difficult overall economic situation is affecting consumer behavior and is causing comparatively weak demand for cars,” said VDA chief economist Manuel Kallweit to the “Augsburger Allgemeine”. Domestic sales are massively below the level before the… Continue reading German Manager Magazine: Auto industry: German car manufacturers record drastic decline in domestic sales003545

German Manager Magazine: Electric cars: Why there could be a battery transition003542

While Europe’s auto industry looks anxiously at its stumbling battery hope, Northvolt, the Asian market leaders are sharpening their blades. In the truest sense of the word: Where Northvolt is struggling with the production of its nickel-manganese-cobalt batteries (NMC), better known as lithium-ion batteries, BYD uses blade cells. Or, in German, “blade cells”). The individual… Continue reading German Manager Magazine: Electric cars: Why there could be a battery transition003542

German Manager Magazine: Volkswagen: Christiane Benner and Stephan Weil bring a four-day week into play at VW003543

IG Metall boss Christiane Benner (56) is open to reintroducing the four-day week Volkswagen shown. “We should leave no stone unturned to maintain employment,” she said on Thursday. Accordingly, a reduction in working hours could be one of the options. However, the employer side, which has recently rejected shorter working hours, would have to open… Continue reading German Manager Magazine: Volkswagen: Christiane Benner and Stephan Weil bring a four-day week into play at VW003543

German Manager Magazine: News about Volkswagen, BYD, Airbus, Martin Winterkorn and more in the newsletter “manage:mobility”003542

Dear reader, Volkswagen has never closed a factory in Germany. Now the top management around Oliver Blume (56) is no longer ruling it out. Above all, VW brand boss Thomas Schäfer (54) has to save much harder than he has tried before  . The fact that the management also wants to terminate the job security… Continue reading German Manager Magazine: News about Volkswagen, BYD, Airbus, Martin Winterkorn and more in the newsletter “manage:mobility”003542