CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2023

German vehicle manufacturer Volkswagen is one enterprise going the co-creation route, building its own industry cloud for automobile manufacturing in concert with AWS and MHP, a Porsche-owned IT consultant. Industry cloud is about using the cloud to reinvent or disrupt industry business models and norms.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Argo AI -- the autonomous car venture backed by Volkswagen and Ford -- is gearing up for the 2021 IAA Mobility event in Munich, where it will share more about its vision on the future of commercial robotaxi services.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Life was announced by Volkswagen during the International Motor Show IAA Mobility 2021 held in Munich, where the company also showed a self-driving vehicle made in partnership with Argo AI.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2021

Volkswagen will receive around $350 million as part of a settlement with executives who ran the company during the Dieselgate emissions cheating scandal, after claiming they breached their “duty of care.”. million), while former Audi boss Rupert Stadler will pay Volkswagen 4.1 million euro ($13.6 million euro ($5 million).

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The Verge

MARCH 26, 2021

The Volkswagen Group has wrapped a multiyear internal investigation into Dieselgate, and it says it will try to pry compensation from former CEO Martin Winterkorn and former Audi CEO Rupert Stadler to make up for some of the massive financial damages that resulted from the emissions cheating scandal. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Computer Weekly

MARCH 22, 2017

Volkswagen Group recently demonstrated how it was working with D-Wave to research uses for quantum computing. We find out what the car maker is hoping to achieve

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The robot doesn't have a name yet, so Volkswagen just refers to it as the "mobile charging robot," which is practical enough, we suppose.

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Gizmodo

JUNE 27, 2021

Volkswagen will say goodbye to combustion engine vehicles in Europe between 2033 and 2035, one of the company’s board members said. It plans to do the same in the U.S. and China a little later and in South America and Africa further down the line. Read more.

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The Verge

JANUARY 20, 2021

Volkswagen Group boss Herbert Diess joined twitter Wednesday, and his first tweet was a light trolling of Tesla CEO Elon Musk. For one thing, Diess just barely survived a major power struggle that played out inside the Volkswagen Group. Photo by Miquel Benitez/Getty Images. Hello @Twitter!

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Polestar made its Super Bowl debut with a Polestar 2 commercial that aimed to set the electric car newcomer apart from traditional car companies by taking a shot at the entire concept of flashy car commercials — and at Tesla and Volkswagen, specifically.

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TechSpot

MAY 21, 2020

Instead, they'll likely place the order for their car online, directly from Volkswagen, at which point they'll be prompted to select a "preferred" dealer as a local point of contact. Moving forward, most ID vehicle customers won't be walking into a dealership to haggle over prices.

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Gizmodo

MARCH 19, 2021

Now Volkswagen is trying something similar with the new all-electric ID.3. There’s a trend unfolding in the auto industry toward subscription services and pay-as-you-go features. BMW made waves last year when it envisioned a future of “unlocking” heated seats, for example, with a one-time or recurring fee. Read more.

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Data Center Knowledge

APRIL 7, 2016

OpenStack startup Mirantis announced that Volkswagen Group has selected OpenStack as its platform for its private cloud that will support internal and consumer-facing applications. Read More.

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Forrester IT

MAY 13, 2023

The Volkswagen Group bet big on a new software division called Cariad, committing billions to building the software meant to power in-car experiences for Audi, Porsche, VW and other group brands. Software delays hit the launch of new cars, and Cariad lost $2bn in 2022.

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The Verge

JUNE 26, 2021

Volkswagen plans to stop selling combustion engines in Europe by 2035, a board member told German newspaper Muenchner Merkur ( via Reuters ). Klaus Zellmer, Volkswagen’s board member for sales, told the newspaper that the company would “exit the business with internal combustion engine cars in Europe between 2033 and 2035.”

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CTOvision

AUGUST 10, 2020

Read why Ondrej Vlcek says that privacy and safety should be at the heart of the Internet of Things revolution on Forbes : Volkswagen marked the beginning of June with […].

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The Verge

MARCH 26, 2021

Volkswagen clarified some new details about the release of the ID Buzz, the electric microbus that we first saw in concept form way back in 2017. In an interview with Car and Driver , VW’s head of commercial vehicles, Carsten Intra, confirmed previous reports that the ID Buzz’s release in the US was delayed from 2022 to 2023.

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TechSpot

JUNE 11, 2020

The Club offers "various customer benefits," including a direct line to Volkswagen. The first is the September delivery time frame mentioned before, which comes bundled with access to the exclusive "ID.3 3 1st Mover Club."

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Forrester IT

APRIL 7, 2020

More and more marketers at global brands in China, such as Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Volkswagen, and Walmart, are replacing their globally contracted martech vendors with viable Chinese ones. They have realized that deep localization is the only way to succeed.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

Argo was founded in 2016, but there’s some solid foundations there: Bryan and his team were veterans of Google’s and Uber’s self-driving groups, and they have major investments from Ford and Volkswagen. Ford and Volkswagen are obviously gigantic car companies. Your other big partner is Volkswagen. It doesn’t sound like it, no.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 9, 2024

Robustness is critical when developing new battery cells. In the automotive industry, companies shoot for no worse than a 20 percent capacity loss after 700 charging cycles. QuantumScape's solid-state cell blew these results out of the water, losing just five percent of total capacity by the end of a 1,000-cycle. Read Entire Article

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

That’s why Volkswagen is founding a new cyber security company devoted to protecting next-generation vehicles. It’s unclear how much Volkswagen is investing in the new firm, but security experts have been warning that internet-connected cars and self-driving vehicles could one day be a major target for hackers.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As the tech inside vehicles keeps advancing, one trend shared by many manufacturers is the reduction in the number of physical buttons from the interior, replaced by touch controls/screens. It's an especially common practice within EVs, but a lot of drivers aren't happy it. Read Entire Article

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Computer Weekly

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Following TfL's decision against Uber, we investigate the role of professionalism and ethics in software development

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Volkswagen-controlled JAC Motors out of China will launch the first electric vehicle powered by sodium-ion batteries starting in January under the brand Yiwei. Due to a lower energy density than lithium batteries, sodium-ion cells are not ideal for full-size cars. So the Yiwei is a squatty little four-door hatchback. Read Entire Article

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Network World

AUGUST 11, 2016

Millions of Volkswagens built over the past 20 years can be broken into with a hack that exploits the cars’ remote control key systems, security researchers have found.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JUNE 22, 2022

Just about everyone knows who Volkswagen is. After years of development, Volkswagen decided to delay the launch and sell the first batch of cars without a full array of software, pending a future update. Volkswagen who is the world’s largest car maker, has outspent all rivals in a global bid to beat Tesla. 3’s problems.

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CTOvision

JULY 16, 2019

On a widely anticipated move, Ford and Volkswagen announced Friday their plan to expand their seven-month-old alliance to include autonomous and electric vehicles. As part of the deal, VW will invest a whopping $2.6

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Venture Beast

JUNE 1, 2020

billion funding round led by Volkswagen at a $7.25 Argo AI, an autonomous vehicle startup that has a close relationship with Ford, closed a $2.6 Read More.

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TechSpot

MAY 5, 2022

Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess told the Financial Times (paywalled, via EuroNews) that they are basically sold out of electric vehicles in the aforementioned regions. And in China, it's really picking up," Diess added.

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Volkswagen announced a pilot program for EV battery recycling in Salzgitter, Germany, and it’s about time one of the biggest carmakers started addressing the inevitable EV question: What about the batteries? Read more.

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TechSpot

MARCH 2, 2022

The Felicity Ace was transporting almost 4,000 Volkswagen Group vehicles from Germany to a port in Rhode Island when a fire broke out on February 16. The 22-person crew was evacuated, and the fire was eventually put out on February 25.

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TechSpot

JUNE 14, 2021

In a letter, Volkswagen states it was informed about an unauthorized third party who accessed sensitive customer information on March 10, 2021. After being notified about the situation, the car manufacturer started an investigation to discover what was accessed and which customers and potential buyers were affected.

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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2021

Volkswagen Group unveiled a massive push to drive down the cost of producing batteries for its electric vehicles in the hopes of speeding the transition away from gas-powered cars. Volkswagen “gigafactories”. Northvolt will also sell its share in joint-venture Northvolt Zwei to Volkswagen. Charging expansion.

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The Verge

JULY 13, 2020

Volkswagen announced the MEB platform in 2018 as part of its multibillion-dollar push into electric vehicles. All of Volkswagen’s upcoming ID-branded electric vehicles are being built on the MEB platform, and it will also power certain vehicles from Volkswagen Group brands like Audi , Seat, and Skoda. Fisker Inc. Fisker Inc.

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The Verge

JANUARY 10, 2021

Volkswagen, Fiat Chrysler, and Toyota also have reported problems with semiconductor supply chains, with Fiat Chrysler temporarily shuttering factories in Canada and Mexico. Volkswagen said in December it had changed some production of its vehicles at plants in North America, Europe and China.

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

Image: Volkswagen. Volkswagen is delaying the release of certain versions of the all-electric ID 3 because the car’s software isn’t ready, confirming months of reports from German outlets like Sueddeutsche Zeitung and Manager Magazine about the company’s struggle to bring its first mass-produced electric vehicle to market.

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