TRANSFORM 2025+ Volkswagen presents its strategy for the next decade

Volkswagen is comprehensively repositioning itself. The Board of Management of the Volkswagen brand has decided on the TRANSFORM 2025+ program which will set the course for the brand over the next decade and beyond. The new strategy focuses on clearer brand positioning across the various regions and segments, backed by significant improvements in efficiency and … Read more

Volkswagen Group: Investment planning sets the course for digital transformation and “Strategy 2025”

Volkswagen Group is adapting its financial planning to current trends and creating a solid basis for implementing “TOGETHER – Strategy 2025”, its agenda for the future. This plan aims to reduce the capex ratio and the development cost ratio to a competitive level in the next few years – despite the huge challenges facing the … Read more

Volkswagen concludes pact for greater economic viability and a more secure future

The Board of Management and General Works Council of Volkswagen have signed a pact for the future in Wolfsburg following constructive negotiations. This pact will initiate the return of the Volkswagen brand to a path of profitable growth. The program for the German plants with about 120,000 employees is to significantly improve the competitiveness of … Read more

Volkswagen is to produce the new e-Golf in Dresden, too

The Volkswagen brand is converting the Transparent Factory in Dresden into a production facility again. From April 2017, the new e-Golf is to be produced there. This was announced in Dresden on Thursday by Dr. Frank Welsch, Member of the Volkswagen Brand Board of Management responsible for Development, in the presence of Stanislaw Tillich, Prime … Read more

MAN Truck & Bus supports IMAGinE research project on cooperative driving

Intelligent integrated networking: the focus of the joint IMAGinE project (intelligent automation of manoeuvres– cooperative risk prevention in real-time) lies on increasing the safety of all road users. In future, vehicles communicating with each other in real-time will form the basis for a cooperative interplay in road traffic. Action not reaction: cooperative risk detection and … Read more

Audi outlines growth plan for China business

News • Partnership with FAW-Volkswagen intensifies in largest market • Audi CEO Rupert Stadler: “Local e-tron offensive with five models in five years” • AUDI AG and SAIC enter cooperation talks Audi has outlined a growth plan for its joint business with FAW Group for the next 10 years, setting the course for sustainable growth … Read more