Porsche is participating in a financing round of Rimac Automobili that will see the electric supercar maker raise 130 million-150 million euros ($157 million-$181 million). Porsche owns a 15.5% stake in Rimac Automobili and could raise its stake to just below 50% in a deal that would also include the transfer of Volkswagen’s supercar brand […]
Volkswagen Group Opens First Electric Battery Recycling Plant In Salzgitter
The Volkswagen Group Components opened the Group’s first plant for recycling electric car batteries in Salzgitter. The aim is the industrialised recovery of valuable raw materials such as lithium, nickel, manganese and cobalt in a closed loop together with aluminium, copper and plastics, achieving a recycling rate of more than 90% over the long term. […]
Volkswagen’s MEB Platform Will Float In Solar Electric Yacht Form
Volkswagen Group announced that its Modular Electric Drive Toolkit (MEB), known from the ID.3 and following EVs, will be used also in electric yachts. Silent-Yachts, an Austrian company which operates shipyards in Italy, China and Thailand, intends to develop new versions of its solar-powered yachts utilizing the MEB system – including battery packs, electric motors […]
Volkswagen triples electric car sales ahead of climate rules
Including hybrids, which combine an internal combustion engine and an electric motor, sales of electrified cars reached 212,000, up from 82,000 in 2019 FRANKFURT, Germany: Europe’s push into electric cars is gathering speed – despite the pandemic. Automaker Volkswagen tripled sales of battery-only cars in 2020 as its new electric compact ID.3 came on the […]
Volkswagen unveils prototype EV charging robot
Volkswagen has unveiled a prototype EV charging robot, designed to charge cars in restricted parking areas such as underground car parks. The manufacturer said the idea is that the robot brings a mobile charger to a vehicle, plugs it in, then returns later to pick it up when the driver is leaving or the battery […]
Volkswagen unveils ‘visionary’ electric car-charging robot
It independently steers to the vehicle to be charged and communicates with it: from opening the charging socket flap to connecting the plug and decoupling it LONDON : Volkswagen Group has unveiled the first glimpse of the prototypes of its mobile charging robot that can be used for fully autonomous charging of vehicles in restricted […]
Volkswagen EVs Could Deliver Long-Range, Solid-State Batteries By 2024
The Volkswagen Group’s $300 million investment into US solid-state battery startup QuantumScape could pay off with a 50-percent jump in EV range and coffee-stop recharging as soon as 2024. Despite spending billions of euros to launch a fully-fledged instant range of EVs, Volkswagen still lags behind Tesla TSLA -1% in range, perceived as critical in […]
Volkswagen: Understanding the what, where and why of electric vehicle charging
The What It can seem daunting to wrap your head around some of the variables involved in electric vehicle charging. Understanding it requires some new thinking about how your vehicle gets energy – namely, how much any given charger can deliver, and how much your vehicle can take. All Volkswagen ID.4 models will come with. […]
Volkswagen Goes All-in on Electric Cars for the Next Five Years with €73 Billion Investment
Ten billion Euros may not suffice when vying for EV supremacy. Case in point, Volkswagen indicated during its latest five-year strategic meeting that it will raise its funding for EV R&D to €73 billion, the breakdown of which is as follows: €35 for BEV development, €27 for digital transformation, and €11 for HEV development. VW’s […]
Volkswagen: How owning an electric vehicle can help you reduce costs over the long haul
Electric vehicles like the Volkswagen ID.4 offer a lot of benefits to their owners, such as zero tailpipe-emission driving and home charging. But there’s often been questions about the cost of EVs, as battery technology remains slightly more expensive than combustion engines Electric vehicles like the Volkswagen ID.4 offer a lot of benefits to their […]