Do like Tesla. Under the leadership of Herbert Diess, the unwritten rule permeated the entire Volkswagen company, the American automaker was taken as a technology and marketing model. But Diess, a huge Musk fan, suddenly quit his job in the early summer and, after a staff reshuffle, now comes a cautious change of course. “Listening … Read more
The CEO of the Volkswagen automobile concern Herbert Diess leaves. He agreed with the company’s supervisory board that he will leave his position on September 1. He is to be replaced by the current boss of Porsche, Oliver Blume. The company announced this unexpected step in its statement today, the DPA agency reported. – According … Read more
Volkswagen, the world’s second largest manufacturer of electric vehicles in terms of volume, is “sold out” for battery-powered models in the US and Europe for this year, as persistent bottlenecks in supply chains affect production, reports Financial Times. The VW Group sold just over 99,000 electric models globally in the first quarter. The group includes … Read more
Herbert Diess, Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen Group, ruled out the possibility that the Czech Škoda brand would enter the American market in the near future. – Recently, Diess has been focusing on regular communication through various online platforms, and is mainly active on the LinkedIn network. This week, however, he also … Read more
“It’s a fresh thing, we’ll see what it brings,” Martin Jahn, a member of the Škoda Auto board of directors, responded to Schäfer’s departure from the domestic carmaker. He did not want to answer the question of whether he could succeed Schäfer. Schäfer should leave Škoda in July next year. As the chairman of the … Read more
A press conference of the Volkswagen Group’s Supervisory Board is to be held today, on the afternoon of 9 December. Among other things, she is expected to resolve disagreements between the group’s leader, Herbert Diess, and the powerful unions. The result can be significant changes in management, which would also affect Czech Škoda. Despite the … Read more
The executive committee of the Volkswagen Group’s supervisory board will meet on Tuesday to discuss the future of Herbert’s CEO Diesse. This was announced by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, according to which it is not clear whether a final decision will be made at the meeting. – According to Reuters sources, Diess is likely to … Read more
The head of the German automobile concern Volkswagen, Herbert Diess, hopes that the worst part of the crisis over chips is over. – However, he still expects that the lack of chips will have a negative effect on the Group’s production next year as well. Diess said this today in Berlin at an economic congress … Read more
The Porsche and Piech families, which control Porsche SE, Volkswagen AG’s largest shareholder, continue to support German group CEO Herbert Diess, a Porsche spokesman said on Friday. “Families continue to support Mr Diess. There is no change in their position,” he said. The statement comes after the deteriorating relations between the head of Volkswagen and … Read more
The special committee will include Hans Dieter Pötsch, Chairman of the Supervisory Board at the carmaker and head of Porsche SE, the Group’s largest shareholder, Daniela Cavall, Chairman of the Works Council, Joerg Hofmann, head of Germany’s largest trade union IG Metall, and Stephan Weil (SPD) ), the Land of which holds one-fifth of the … Read more