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Volkswagen enters global electric vehicle battery business

August 1, 2022 by Mark Allinson Leave a Comment

Volkswagen has broken ground for its first battery production factory in Salzgitter, Germany last week in the presence of Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

Production will start in 2025. With immediate effect, responsibility for global battery business is to be held by the newly created company “PowerCo”. In addition to cell production, the new company will be responsible for activities along the entire battery value chain.

Up to 2030, PowerCo is to invest more than €20 billion together with partners in the development of the business area, to generate annual sales in excess of €20 billion and to employ up to 20,000 people in Europe alone. [Read more…] about Volkswagen enters global electric vehicle battery business

Filed Under: Features, Infrastructure Tagged With: battery, cell, europe, factory, future, global, powerco, salzgitter, volkswagen

Volkswagen to design its own chips for autonomous vehicles

May 3, 2021 by David Edwards Leave a Comment

Automotive giant Volkswagen is planning to design its own chips for autonomous vehicles, according to a report in German newspaper, Handelsblatt.

VW’s CEO, Herbert Diess, is said to have “ordered” the company to “launch the next revolution after electromobility”, and Handelsblatt says that Diess “wants to create the fully networked and self-steering vehicle with its own processor”.

Diess told Handelsblatt: “To achieve optimal performance in light of the high demands that exist for cars, software and hardware have to come out of one hand.” [Read more…] about Volkswagen to design its own chips for autonomous vehicles

Filed Under: Computing, News Tagged With: autonomous, cars, chips, company, control, design, devices, diess, electronic, fully, grow, handelsblatt, number, semiconductors, systems, vehicles, volkswagen, vw

Volkswagen expands production of battery systems

April 21, 2021 by David Edwards Leave a Comment

The Volkswagen Group Components plant in Braunschweig is significantly expanding its production of battery systems for the latest electric vehicle generation. Following the first expansion stage with a maximum capacity of 250,000 battery systems, the second expansion stage has started up with the same capacity.

This means that once the site is fully ramped up it will now be able to fit up to 500,000 batteries a year for models based on the modular electric drive matrix (MEB) – in this case for the fully electric Volkswagen ID.31 and ID.42, as well as the Škoda Enyaq iV3, which should soon be quietly and powerfully cruising the streets of Europe with a battery heart from Braunschweig.

In addition to that, up to 100,000 battery systems for the beloved models e-up!4, SEAT Mii electric5, Škoda Citigoe iV6 and as well as for hybrid vehicles such as the Volkswagen Golf GTE7. [Read more…] about Volkswagen expands production of battery systems

Filed Under: Manufacturing, News Tagged With: batteries, battery, braunschweig, electric, expansion, group, plant, production, site, stage, systems, volkswagen

VW partners with Microsoft to build computing platform for autonomous vehicles

February 19, 2021 by David Edwards Leave a Comment

Volkswagen says it is further strengthening its capabilities in the development of autonomous or highly automated driving (AD) solutions with a new partnership with Microsoft.

The Group’s software company Car.Software Organisation will collaborate with Microsoft to build a cloud-based Automated Driving Platform (ADP) on Microsoft Azure and leverage its compute and data capabilities to deliver automated driving experiences even faster at global scale.

With ADP running on Azure, Car.Software Organisation will increase the efficiency of the development of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and AD functions for passenger cars across Volkswagen Group brands. [Read more…] about VW partners with Microsoft to build computing platform for autonomous vehicles

Filed Under: Computing, News Tagged With: ad, adas, adp, automated, azure, brands, build, capabilities, car.software, cloud, continuously, data, development, digital, driving, enable, engineering, functions, group, microsoft, mobility, organisation, partners, passenger, platform, services, software, solutions, vehicle, vehicles, volkswagen, vw.ac

VW electric vehicle sales increase more than 400 percent

January 26, 2021 by David Edwards Leave a Comment

Volkswagen’s electric vehicle sales have increased more than 400 percent over the past year, according to the German auto giant’s latest figures.

The Volkswagen Group says its “e-offensive is gaining traction”. Deliveries of electric models in the EU including the UK, Norway and Iceland increased “more than fourfold in the year now ended to a total of 315,400 electric vehicles (2019: 72,600)”.

The proportion of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in-hybrids (PHEVs) in the total deliveries rose to 9.7 percent (2019: 1.7 percent). [Read more…] about VW electric vehicle sales increase more than 400 percent

Filed Under: Business, Features Tagged With: all-electric, audi, based, brand, cars, customers, drive, e-tron, electric, emissions, eu, figures, fleet, g/km, group, models, passenger, percent, target, vehicle, vehicles, volkswagen, year

Volkswagen orders staggering 800 ABB robots to build its new electric vehicles

October 26, 2020 by David Edwards Leave a Comment

ABB has received a massive order for 800 industrial robots from Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles to support production of a new generation of electric vehicles at its plant in Hannover, Germany.

Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles is modernizing its Hannover factory and is installing state-of-the-art facilities to build the all-electric ID.

Buzz van, which will begin production in 2022. ABB’s robots will be installed in the body shop to undertake a range of body construction tasks. [Read more…] about Volkswagen orders staggering 800 ABB robots to build its new electric vehicles

Filed Under: Industrial robots, News Tagged With: abb, applied, automotive, body, build, commercial, customers, electric, expansion, hanover, innovative, manufacturing, paint, PixelPaint, production, robots, solutions, support, vehicles, volkswagen

Volkswagen opens up its ‘Industrial Cloud’ to other manufacturing and technology companies

July 29, 2020 by David Edwards Leave a Comment

Volkswagen, together with Amazon Web Services and integration partner Siemens, is opening up its Industrial Cloud to other manufacturing and technology companies.

New partner companies will be able to connect with Volkswagen plants and to contribute their own software applications for optimizing production processes to the Industrial Cloud.

VW says the opening up of the platform will help create “a rapidly growing range of industrial software applications for Volkswagen’s plants”. [Read more…] about Volkswagen opens up its ‘Industrial Cloud’ to other manufacturing and technology companies

Filed Under: Computing, Features Tagged With: applications, aws, cloud, companies, creating, help, industrial, optimize, partner, partners, plants, production, volkswagen, vw

Siemens provides its expertise to Volkswagen to develop digitized electric car production

June 25, 2020 by David Edwards Leave a Comment

Volkswagen’s first new generation electric car is being built with Siemens automation and digitalization technologies.

The two companies say they are developing a standard for the upcoming Volkswagen electric car generation.

Volkswagen aims to increase the degree of automation in the body shop to 89 percent and to 28 percent in final assembly. [Read more…] about Siemens provides its expertise to Volkswagen to develop digitized electric car production

Filed Under: Design, Features Tagged With: automation, electric, production, siemens, standard, vass, volkswagen

Hydrogen vs electric vs petrol: How will cars be powered in the future?

May 27, 2020 by Sam Francis Leave a Comment

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Electric vehicles sales have seen sustained increases in the past few years and significant milestones have been reached in many countries.

According to data published on Wikipedia by independent researcher Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz, cumulative global plug-in electric vehicle sales passed 5 million units in December 2018.

Five million is just a drop in the ocean in terms of the number of all the “light-duty” vehicles – vehicles weighing 4,500 kg or less, which includes cars, vans, and small trucks – on the roads worldwide, which, according to a Guidehouse Insights report, numbers around 1.2 billion in total. Other researchers estimate the figure to be around 2.5 billion. [Read more…] about Hydrogen vs electric vs petrol: How will cars be powered in the future?

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: audi, bmw, electric, fuel, honda, hydrogen, toyota, vehicles, volkswagen

Volkswagen invests €450 million in battery manufacturing joint venture with Northvolt

May 25, 2020 by David Edwards Leave a Comment

Volkswagen is to construct buildings and infrastructure for the battery cell factory it has agreed to build with Northvolt. The automotive giant has made initial investment of some €450 million.

The joint venture between Volkswagen Group and the Swedish battery producer Northvolt is gaining further momentum.

It has been decided that Volkswagen itself will erect the buildings and infrastructure for the joint venture’s “Northvolt Zwei” factory that is to produce lithium-ion battery cells, in order to leverage synergies at the Salzgitter site – based on the existing Center of Excellence for Battery Cells. [Read more…] about Volkswagen invests €450 million in battery manufacturing joint venture with Northvolt

Filed Under: Infrastructure, News Tagged With: addition, battery, buildings, cell, cells, europe, factory, group, infrastructure, joint, northvolt, production, salzgitter, site, strategic, venture, volkswagen

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