They look a bit like Volkswagen Beetle’s baby brother. Creator Brent Walter started building his VW-inspired, motorized minibikes out of old fenders — not so much for a utilitarian purpose as out of a sense of fun. The 47-year-old inventor from Huntingdon, Indiana, stumbled on the idea after spotting inventions online, which were made from car…
Inventor Builds ‘Volkswagen Beetle’ Minibikes From Old Fenders — And the Ridable Results Are Cute as a Bug
Volkswagen CEO Sees Tight Race With Tesla for E-Car Crown by 2025
FRANKFURT—Volkswagen faces a tough road ahead to reach its self-imposed target of becoming the world’s largest seller of electric vehicles by 2025, its chief executive said on Monday, admitting rival Tesla was stronger than expected. “It will be a tight race but we won’t give up on it,” Herbert Diess said at the FT Future…
Tesla’s Giga Berlin Is Just Over 120 Miles From Volkswagen’s Plant—But CEO Diess Isn’t Worried
Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess is unfazed about Elon Musk-led Tesla Inc. having built a factory just about 200 kilometers (124 miles) from its home turf Germany. What Happened Musk-led Tesla is ahead of Volkswagen, growing fast and taking more risks than the German legacy automaker, Diess told CBS News’s Lesley Stahl in an interview. “Tesla is quite ahead currently, and…
Volkswagen to Scrap Models and Focus on Premium Market: CFO Tells FT
BERLIN—German carmaker Volkswagen will axe many combustion engine models by the end of the decade and sell fewer cars overall to concentrate on producing more profitable premium vehicles, its finance chief was quoted as saying on Wednesday. “The key target is not growth,” Arno Antlitz told the Financial Times newspaper. “We are (more focused) on…
Volkswagen to Recall More Than 100,000 Cars on Fire Risk
BERLIN—Volkswagen Group will have to recall more than 100,000 plug-in hybrid vehicles globally due to the risk of fire, said a spokesperson for the German carmaker. Some 42,300 owners of Volkswagen Passats, Golfs, Tiguans, and Arteons worldwide will be notified. Volkswagen brand Audi has to recall 24,400 vehicles, while Seat and Skoda are also affected….
Lacking Wire Harnesses From Ukraine, Volkswagen Delays ID.5 Launch
BERLIN—Volkswagen will delay the launch of its ID.5 electric car by a month to the first week of May because of disruptions in the supply of wire harnesses from Ukraine, a spokesperson said on Friday. The lack of supply meant that the carmaker was unable to produce enough exhibition and demonstration vehicles for all its…
China Locks Down City of 4.5 Million Due to Worsening COVID-19 Outbreak
After the Chinese regime locked down a provincial capital of 4.5 million due to the worsening COVID-19 outbreak, locals have questioned whether such measures can be effective in containing the virus and have blamed health workers’ for causing cross-infection. Changchun, the provincial capital of China’s northeastern Jilin Province that has been hit hard by this…
BMW Suspends Production in China Due to COVID-19 Outbreak
German automaker BMW announced on March 23 that its plants in Shenyang, China, will temporarily shut down from March 24 due to the city’s COVID-19 restrictions, with no date determined for resuming production. Northeastern China’s Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning Province with a population of 9.1 million, is home to BMW’s largest production base in…
Dancing Musk Hands Drivers First Teslas From New German Gigafactory
March 23, 2022
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BERLIN—Elon Musk was cheered as he oversaw the handover of Tesla’s first German-made cars at its Gruenheide plant on Tuesday, marking the start of the U.S. automaker’s inaugural European hub just two years after it was first announced. Loud music played as 30 clients and their families got a first glimpse of their shining new…
Volkswagen Panders to China
March 19, 2022
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News Analysis Volkswagen (VW) doesn’t seem to care much about China’s support of Russia during its Ukraine invasion. Neither, apparently, is the German company showing exceeding concern about the genocide in Xinjiang (where it has a factory that employs about 650 people). VW is not quite committed to an increase of its manufacturing in the…
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