Germany-based Volkswagen is considering closing plants in its home country as automakers in the European Union (EU) grapple with a flood of cheap China-made cars that are increasingly making up a share of auto sales in the continent.
American automakers, as well as those based in Europe and other regions in Asia, are in a dire situation in China as sales have plummeted.
Volkswagen and Rivian have announced a joint venture that will bring Rivian’s EV software expertise to VW’s product lineup. The $5 billion deal has provided a lifeline to Rivian, which has faced major financial problems this year.
A historic vote to unionize among auto workers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, Tennessee, plant will open new doors for the United Auto Workers.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrived in China for a visit focused on mending economic and political relationship between Beijing and Berlin.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi delivered a speech at the Munich Security Conference this weekend partially focused on discouraging Western businesses from seeking to invest elsewhere to avoid funding China’s extensive list of ongoing human rights atrocities, warning that divesting from China would be “a historical mistake.”
A mountain of evidence published Tuesday indicates that a Volkswagen test track in China was constructed with the use of Uyghur slaves.
Major car show was opened by the German Chancellor, but his boosterism was upstaged by eco-extremists accusing “greenwashing”.
A group of activists demonstrating against China’s use of Uyghur Muslims as slaves crashed German automaker Volkswagen’s shareholder meeting in Berlin on Wednesday.
Following an incident earlier this month in which Volkswagen refused to provide law enforcement with the location of a stolen car with a kidnapped child still inside, the automaker has agreed to make its car-tracking service free.
Volkswagen refused to use its GPS tracking feature to assist Illinois police in tracking a stolen car with a kidnapped 2-year-old boy inside. The company wouldn’t track the stolen vehicle because the owner’s GPS subscription had expired, leading a representative to tell the police the subscription would have to be reactivated for the automaker to help. Luckily, the boy was found unharmed dumped in a parking lot.
A top official in German automaker Volkswagen’s China operation insisted in remarks on Tuesday that a plant in Urumqi, the capital of occupied East Turkistan, did not show any signs of enslaving workers or participating in the Chinese government’s ongoing genocide against the Uyghur people of that region.
James Woods has roasted fellow Hollywood star Alyssa Milano after she announced she had given back her Tesla to protest Elon Musk and exchanged the vehicle for a Volkswagen. As numerous people have pointed out, Volkswagen was founded by the Nazi party under Adolf Hitler.
Alyssa Milano has announced that she returned her Telsa and has replaced it with a Volkswagen electric vehicle in protest of Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk. But as numerous people have pointed out, her latest attempt at virtue signaling is
Leftist celebrity Alyssa Milano was brutally mocked online for an “epic virtue signal fail” after announcing her decision to swap her Tesla for a Nazi-founded Volkswagen to dissociate from “hate and white supremacy.”
Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter last week has resulted in at least six major companies withdrawing their advertising over worries about how he will impact content moderation policies on the platform.
Europe’s largest car manufacturer, which was founded in 1937 by the German Labour Front under the direction of Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist Party, suspended advertising on Twitter this week following Elon Musk’s plans to water down the censorious ‘content moderation’ that has become a hallmark of the microblogging site in recent years.
Radicals who glued at Volkswagen in Germany complained they needed the loo and that it got dark once the lights were turned off at night.
A ship transporting about 4000 vehicles – including roughly 1,100 Porches and 189 Bentleys – across the Atlantic to the U.S. has been abandoned at sea and left ablaze.
Elon Musk and his electric car company Tesla have shared full-blown praise of the Chinese Communist Party on Weibo, Breitbart News can reveal.
Volkswagen and its luxury brand Audi have been hacked, resulting in the personal data of three million customers being stolen.
The CEO of vehicle manufacturer Volkswagen stated in a recent interview that he is not “not scared” by the prospect of Apple developing its own electric vehicle.
A recent report explains that Tesla posted its first full year of net income in 2020, but not due to auto sales. Regulatory credits appeared to make up the majority of the company’s positive income for the year.
Allegations of forced labor at Volkswagen’s car plant in China’s Xinjiang region are untrue, the German car manufacturer’s CEO in China told the BBC on Thursday.
BERLIN (AP) – The European Union’s highest court ruled Thursday that buyers of Volkswagen cars fitted with software installed to cheat diesel emissions tests can sue the automaker in the country where they bought the car rather than seeking damages in Germany.
VW said they will hold talks on a possible settlement in a case over compensation for cars affected by the diesel emissions scandal.
The German auto giant, Volkswagen, has come under fire for its business operations in the ‘concentration camp’ region of Xinjiang, China.
A number of Volkswagen executives have been charged by German prosecutors with misleading shareholders over vehicle emissions as part of the infamous “Dieselgate” scandal, according to recent reports.
A television advertisement featuring a mother caring for her baby while men are being adventurous was taken off air after new rules came into force banning portrayals of “harmful gender stereotypes” in commercials.
Auto manufacturers Ford and the Volkswagen Group have announced plans to strengthen their global alliance and release an electric vehicle by 2023. Much to Elon Musk and Tesla’s dismay, VW CEO Herbert Diess explained their goal is to “turn the electric car from a niche product into a mass phenomenon.”
Former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn was charged in Germany this week for his alleged role in the massive diesel-rigging scandal that was first reported on in 2015.
More than 70 years after the end of World World II, one of Germany’s richest families has admitted to its dark links with Adolf Hitler’s regime.
The SEC has reportedly charged Volkswagen and the company’s former CEO with defrauding their investors.
The elite French automobile manufacturer sold the one-of-a-kind Bugatti La Voiture Noire to an unnamed buyer.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)’s Green New Deal legislation will abolish I.C.E. — the internal combustion engine.
German auto giant Volkswagen has reportedly invested 80 billion euros in mass-producing electric vehicles, which one executive referred to as the future of the company’s brand.
Volkswagen is making a big bet on mass-market electric vehicles.
German automaker Volkswagen is reportedly deciding where to build a new North American factory dedicated to electric vehicle production according to the company’s new head for the Americas.
The Wall Street Journal published an article Monday outlining how Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s plans to take the company private failed. A combination of doubts about losing control and sharing the “Tesla halo” contributed to the decision.
Car manufacturer Nissan had revealed that it uncovered falsified car exhaust emissions test data at its Japanese factories.
