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Volkswagen Postpones Restart of China Joint Venture Production

Volkswagen AG has postponed the resumption of production at its China joint ventures in the latest sign of the coronavirus’ impact on economic activity.

February 10, 2020
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Volkswagen's Traton Unit Submits Buyout Offer for Navistar

Navistar International Corp. said it has received an unsolicited buyout offer from its European truck partner Traton SE — which is owned by Germany’s Volkswagen AG — in a $35 per share cash offer.

January 30, 2020
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VW’s Herbert Diess Confident He Can Catch Tesla in Electric Car Race

Volkswagen AG CEO Herbert Diess is preparing to muscle Elon Musk out of the electric-car lead.

January 24, 2020
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Volkswagen Raises Forecast for Electric Car Production

FRANKFURT, Germany — Automaker Volkswagen is accelerating its move into battery-powered cars, saying it will reach its goal of 1 million electric cars per year two years earlier than planned.

December 27, 2019
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German Automaker Audi to Cut 9,500 Jobs by 2025

BERLIN — Volkswagen subsidiary Audi says it’s cutting 9,500 jobs in Germany through 2025 as part of a transformation plan to make the company “lean and sustainable.â€

November 26, 2019
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VW Challenges Rivals With $66 Billion Splurge for Electric Era

Volkswagen AG will ramp up spending on electric vehicles and automated driving by 36% as the world’s largest automaker challenges rivals to keep pace with an aggressive shift into the post-combustion era.

November 15, 2019
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Volkswagen Breaks Ground on Chattanooga, Tenn., Electric Vehicle Facility

Marking construction of an electric vehicle facility in Chattanooga, Volkswagen of America today broke ground on an $800 million expansion that will add more than 700,000 square feet of new space to its plant.

November 13, 2019
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VW Considers Sharing Autonomous-Car Tech to Defray Development Costs

Volkswagen AG is open to sharing future autonomous-vehicle systems with other manufacturers as it races to catch up with the likes of Waymo LLC in cost-intensive technologies that could transform the way people and goods move, according to an executive at the German automaker.

November 6, 2019
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VW in $9 Billion Software Revamp as It Expands Tech Shift

Volkswagen AG is bundling its software operations with an investment plan of about 8 billion euro ($9 billion) over the next three to five years, another step in the electric- and connected-car shift that’s heralding massive change across the industry.

September 13, 2019
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VW Warns Trade War Causing Slow Car Sales

Volkswagen AG and other carmakers warned that trade tensions risk dragging the global economy into a recession as the fallout starts to hit consumers.

September 10, 2019