Volkswagen and Xpeng will open their respective super-fast charging networks to each others' customer in China as part of a memorandum of understanding. The two firms will explore cooperation on co-branded super-fast charging stations, the companies said.
China's Xpeng Motors and Volkswagen have agreed to expand their partnership to cooperate on ultra-fast electric vehicle charging networks in China, the automakers said on Monday.
Volkswagen Group's troubled automotive software unit Cariad left terabytes of customer data on around 800,000 electric Audi, Seat, Skoda, and Volkswagen vehicles exposed to the internet for months, reports Der Spiegel [in German], citing security researchers who learned about the data spill from an unnamed whistleblower.
Volkswagen shares were down 3% in early trade on Monday with analysts citing uncertainty about the automaker's cost-cutting deal with unions and likely headwinds in 2025.
A reduction in managers' bonuses at Volkswagen will lead to a 10% pay cut for the next two years, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported on Sunday, after the German carmaker struck a deal with unions to axe jobs and scale back production.
Volkswagen announced sweeping changes to its German operations, including more than 35,000 future job cuts and capacity reductions in a last-gasp deal between Europe's top carmaker and unions on Friday to avert mass strikes.
Here are the main points of a deal struck on Friday between Volkswagen and unions on the carmaker's German sites and jobs. The agreement followed more than 70 hours of talks and averted the spectre of strikes at Europe's largest carmaker.
Volkswagen on Friday said it had agreed with unions to cut more than 35,000 jobs at its German sites by 2030 in a socially responsible manner, which would help achieve more than 15 billion euros ($15.65 billion) in efficiency gains.
Volkswagen plans to cut more than 10,000 jobs in the next few years as part of an agreement with unions over the future of the German brand, manager magazin reported, not citing where it obtained the information.
Volkswagen and its works council reached a provisional deal on cost-cutting measures that still requires further scrutiny and agreement from both sides, Handelsblatt reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the proceedings.
There has been rapprochement between Volkswagen and the IG Metall union during the longest-ever talks over pay and job security, sources close to the negotiations told Reuters on Friday, without providing further details.
VWAGY and its subsidiary, PowerCo, enter into a strategic partnership with Patriot to invest CAD69 million in the Canadian lithium developer to acquire a 9.9% stake.