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Funds From Volkswagen Diesel Scandal to Pay for Zero-Emission Trucks in California

State officials figure the Volkswagen diesel emissions testing scandal added an extra 10,000 tons of noxious nitrogen oxide to California’s air. To make up for it, the state will use $423 million of Volkswagen penalty money to cut the same amount of nitrogen oxide by subsidizing the purchase of zero-emission trucks, buses and other vehicles.

May 29, 2018
BusinessEquipment

VW CEO Herbert Diess Urges Corporate Culture Change Amid Sweeping Revamp

Herbert Diess, CEO of Volkswagen AG, pledged to step up integrity and compliance efforts as part of the German manufacturer’s deepest overhaul since the diesel-emissions scandal came to light in 2015.

May 4, 2018
BusinessEquipment

VW Truck Division Signals Possible Takeover of Navistar

Volkswagen AG’s heavy-vehicle division is open to a takeover of U.S. affiliate Navistar International Corp. as the German company seeks scale to compete with global leaders Daimler AG and Volvo AB.

April 16, 2018
Business

VW Appoints Herbert Diess CEO in Sweeping Overhaul

Volkswagen AG picked a new leader in a management shakeup to ready the world’s largest automaker for a wave of technological change upending the industry’s traditional business models.

April 12, 2018
BusinessTechnologyEquipmentSafetyFuelAutonomous

VW to Roll Out Electric Trucks, Buses in $1.7 Billion Project

Volkswagen AG is flanking its push into electric cars with plans to roll out battery-powered commercial vehicles targeted at urban areas as growing public concerns about air quality boost demand.

October 11, 2017
Business

Volkswagen Increases Stake in Navistar

Volkswagen Truck & Bus, a unit of Volkswagen AG, has purchased nearly 300,000 additional shares of stock in Navistar International Corp.

August 1, 2017
Business

VW Says It Is Not Under Pressure to Sell Truck Business

Volkswagen is not under pressure to sell its truck business to raise cash as it faces billions of euros in costs after admitting to rigging emissions tests, management board member Andreas Renschler told a German newspaper.

January 31, 2016
Business

Swedish Shareholders Group Recommends VW Bid for Scania

A Swedish shareholders group recommended that its members accept Volkswagen AG’s $9.2 billion bid to buy out Swedish truck maker Scania AB, Reuters reported April 16.

April 16, 2014
Business

Volkswagen Wins Agreement for Control of MAN SE

German truck maker MAN SE’s CEO said an offer from Volkswagen AG to purchase the rest of MAN below the current market value is fair, given the poor economic conditions in Europe, Bloomberg News reported.

June 7, 2013