Volkswagen ID.4 became the bestselling electric car in Norway and the third top selling model in the overall cars sales list. Norway is one of the countries with a high number of electric vehicle penetration. The country has registered 10,545 units of battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles in April, grabbing 80.1% market share. […]
Volkswagen ID.4 GTX EV announced: VW’s most exciting Electric car to date
The ID.4 GTX comes with two electric motors that produce more power and control through an all-wheel drive system. The company aims to increase EV sales by 70 per cent in Europe by 2030. Volkswagen has announced their first product that will come with the GTX badge, the ID.4 GTX. It will be the German […]
SKODA AUTO Volkswagen India aims to make the manufacturing carbon neutral by 2025
In India, SAVWIPL aims to make the manufacturing carbon neutral by 2025 while its parent – the Volkswagen Group targets net zero by 2030. India CSR Network interviewed Sanjay Khare, VP & Director at SKODA AUTO Volkswagen India, to discuss challenges, interventions, achievements and plans. Excerpts: What are the targets for Sustainability with Environmental, Social, […]
Volkswagen powers up for the electric vehicle revolution: Andy Home
Batteries are, quite literally, the driver of the e-mobility revolution and Volkswagen has clear ideas about what it wants and at what price as it prepares to transition from the internal combustion engine (ICE). Its roadmap has major implications for battery metals such as lithium, cobalt, nickel and manganese. LONDON: Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess is […]
Volkswagen-backed Northvolt charges up: ‘We want to build the world’s greenest battery’
Northvolt’s head of battery systems, Emad Zand, explains to Recharge how the start-up plans to scale-up its storage systems production Swedish start-up Northvolt last month declared it would build Europe’s largest factory for energy storage systems in Gdansk, Poland, by next year. Emad Zand, the company’s president of battery systems, speaks with Recharge about how […]
Volkswagen, BP Sign MoU To Expand Ultra-fast Electric Vehicle Charging Across Europe
RTTNews – Volkswagen (VKW.L, VLKAF.PK, VOW.BE) and BP Plc. (BP) said that they plan to work together on extending and speeding up the deployment of ultra-fast electric vehicle charging facilities at bp retail sites across the UK, Germany and elsewhere in Europe. The companies said they have signed a memorandum of understanding for their collaboration […]
Ohio to install more than 500 electric vehicle charging stations: Here’s where they’ll go
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has awarded more than $3.2 million in grants to support the installation of more than 500 electric vehicle charging stations across the state, including at least 40 sites in the Miami Valley. Funded from Ohio’s allocations in the Volkswagen Mitigation Trust Fund, the grants will provide full or partial funding […]
VW to Build a ‘High Range’ and ‘Short Charging Time’ EV for 2026
Volkswagen announced Project Trinity, the plan to build an electric sedan with a 2026 launch, at an event outlining aggressive future plans for electrification. At an event detailing goals for electrification and future technologies, VW revealed that it has a new electric sedan in the works that it plans to launch for 2026. The sedan, known as […]
Volkswagen core brand to accelerate electric vehicle shift
FRANKFURT : Volkswagen’s namesake brand plans to more than double the share fully electric vehicles have in total European sales by 2030, the company said on Friday, in a bid to accelerate the carmaker’s shift towards battery-powered cars. Fully electric vehicles are expected to account for more than 70% of total European vehicle sales by […]
How Volkswagen Recycles Lithium-Ion Batteries
Hot on the heels of electric vehicles dominating the airwaves, many have been expressing concerns over how to recycle automotive li-ion batteries. For the first time ever, Volkswagen recently unveiled their battery recycling facility. Now you too can take a look at how the German automaker makes use of discarded batteries and removes all doubts […]