Tag: VW

Audi shows all-electric e-tron quattro SUV’s towing capability by pulling trailer with new electric race car

Audi is trickling down information about its upcoming all-electric e-tron quattro SUV, which is supposed to hit the market by the end of the year. Now, they’ve released images of the vehicles towing a trailer with its new e-tron Vision Gran Turismo electric race car to show it has a towing capacity. Home Solar Power In recent… Continue reading Audi shows all-electric e-tron quattro SUV’s towing capability by pulling trailer with new electric race car

VW emissions scandal: US charges ex-CEO with conspiracy and fraud

Volkswagen (VW) Michael Winterkorn becomes highest-ranking executive charged in ‘dieselgate’, in which VW tricked federal emissions testers Martin Winterkorn has been charged with conspiracy and wire fraud. Photograph: Michael Sohn/AP US authorities have charged Volkswagen’s former chief executive officer Martin Winterkorn with conspiracy and wire fraud in relation to the car company’s efforts to cheat… Continue reading VW emissions scandal: US charges ex-CEO with conspiracy and fraud

Diesel scandal at VW: German investigators unimpressed by US lawsuit against Winterkorn

Martin Winterkorn The prosecutors in the US accuse the ex-chief of Volkswagen, Martin Winterkorn, conspiracy to deceive the authorities in the exhaust gas manipulation and violations of US environmental laws. (Photo: AP) The prosecutor in Braunschweig shows up in the diesel scandal of Volkswagen little impressed from the indictment of her colleagues in the US… Continue reading Diesel scandal at VW: German investigators unimpressed by US lawsuit against Winterkorn

Press Release No. 10/2018 – Vehicle registrations in April 2018

date 05/03/2018 Flensburg, 3 May 2018. Flensburg, 3 May 2018. In April 2018, 314,055 were brand new Passenger cars ( car ) and thus plus +8.0 percent more than in the same month last year. The proportion of private registrations increased by + 19.3 percent, reaching a share of 38.5 percent, the commercial one registrations… Continue reading Press Release No. 10/2018 – Vehicle registrations in April
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Former CEO of Volkswagen AG Charged with Conspiracy and Wire Fraud in Diesel Emissions Scandal

An indictment was unsealed earlier today charging Martin Winterkorn, 70, the former chairman of the management board of Volkswagen AG (VW), with conspiracy and wire fraud in connection with VW’s long-running scheme to cheat U.S. diesel vehicle emissions requirements. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal… Continue reading Former CEO of Volkswagen AG Charged with Conspiracy and Wire Fraud in Diesel Emissions Scandal

UPDATE 3-Ex-Volkswagen CEO Winterkorn charged in U.S. over diesel scandal

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday disclosed the filing of criminal charges against former Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.DE) Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn, accusing him of conspiring to cover up the German automaker’s diesel emissions cheating. Former Volkswagen chief executive Martin Winterkorn leaves after testifying to a German parliamentary committee on the carmaker’s emissions… Continue reading UPDATE 3-Ex-Volkswagen CEO Winterkorn charged in U.S. over diesel scandal

Former VW CEO charged in Dieselgate scandal

Martin Winterkorn (Photo: Sean Gallup / Getty Images) Detroit — Former Volkswagen AG CEO Martin Winterkorn and five other former VW executives have been federally charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States to commit wire fraud and to violate the Clean Air Act. The criminal indictment of the former VW CEO, who resigned in… Continue reading Former VW CEO charged in Dieselgate scandal

Shareholders formally approve actions of Board of Management and Supervisory Board and adopt resolution on increased dividend for 2017

News Press Release News Group Berlin, 03 May 2018 Shareholders formally approve actions of Board of Management and Supervisory Board and adopt resolution on increased dividend for 2017 At the Annual General Meeting 2018, the shareholders of Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft voted by a majority of 99.97 percent to approve the recommendation of the Board of Management… Continue reading Shareholders formally approve actions of Board of Management and Supervisory Board and adopt resolution on increased dividend for 2017

Ex-Volkswagen CEO Winterkorn charged in U.S. over diesel scandal

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former Volkswagen chief executive Martin Winterkorn was charged in federal court in Detroit with conspiring to mislead regulators about the German automaker’s diesel emissions cheating. Former Volkswagen chief executive Martin Winterkorn leaves after testifying to a German parliamentary committee on the carmaker’s emissions scandal in Berlin, Germany, January 19, 2017. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke… Continue reading Ex-Volkswagen CEO Winterkorn charged in U.S. over diesel scandal