🔋 Producing our own battery cells in Europe - Sebastian Wolf, COO #PowerCo explains why it is so important to establish this key technology. 👇

🔢 Staying ahead in the rapidly evolving automotive industry requires both innovation & strategic financial planning. Read Arno Antlitz's take from Reuters Automotive Europe conference here. 👇

🚀📷 #VolkswagenGroupIT enters 'TOP 250' of world's fastest supercomputers!

Two data centers in Norway & Germany push computing for SEAT, MAN Truck & Bus, Bentley Motors, Volkswagen do Brasil & Volkswagen México.

📌 Key tasks: complex simulations, like crash tests & aerodynamics.

🚚🚌Our colleagues from the TRATON GROUP focus on trucks & buses. Together with Daimler Truck and the Volvo Group, they have set up Milence.

🌏This joint venture aims to have at least 1,700 high-capacity charging points for commercial vehicles, all over Europe.

It's all about speed! That was Thomas Schmall's message at the Reuters Automotive Europe conference in Munich. Read here what exactly he means by that. 👇

🌱 #VolkswagenGroupChina 'Green Belt' project in Inner Mongolia plants 850K trees, tackling desertification & supporting China's 'Three-North' Shelterbelt.

🌳 In partnership with China Green Foundation, #Audi , @SkodaAuto, & Bentley Motors, we aim for 8.5M trees by 2030.

🚛🌱E-trucks vs. diesel?

Some Scania Group insights:
💡 E-Trucks with low emissions, thanks to clean #electricity
💡 With EU-2030 mix, CO2-emissions sink 63%, compared to 38% with 2016 energy mix
💡 Cooperation with Northvolt: sustainable #batteries will improve green benefits

🚀 #VolkswagenGroupChina Tech Company drives 'In China, for China' strategy!

🔹 By 2027:
Enhanced R&D for new energy vehicles/software integration, 110,000 m², 3K employees.

🔹 Just opened: City Test Track
Real-time ICV performance testing, 200,000 m², high-speed oval track.

🇨🇳🤝 Recharged: #Audi and Saic Motor strengthen partnership in #China !

Cooperation starts with three #BEV models to open up new market segments in the world's fastest-growing EV market.

🚗The first model is to be launched in 2025, reducing time to market by more than 30%.

🏎️💨 Škoda Auto News unveils 'Škoda Vision Gran Turismo' for @theGranTurismo 7!

🔋 Powered by four 800 kW electric motors with all-wheel drive
🌟 Inspired by Škoda 1100 OHC Spider, featuring modern solid design & explorer green paint
🎨 Gamers can customize with two paint options

👀 Raw materials & the future? Yes, that works.
E.g. Scania Group colleagues R part of multi-stakeholder initiative in South Africa.

Check the facts:
✅ Goal: sustainable development of local communities
✅ Task: building youth center in a mining town
✅ Education 4 the people

🇨🇱 For the first time in the Salar de Atacama basin in Chile, around 20 organizations, among them representatives of indigenous communities, civil society, academia and the public and private sectors, are collaborating.

🚛 🚌 YES, finally: the production of Volkswagen #trucks and #buses starts in the Argentine province of Córdoba!

Check the facts:
✅ Products tailored to the Argentine market
✅ Existing network of committed distributors
✅ Important step to expand brand’s presence

⚡ The Volkswagen Group brands took part in the GREENTECH FESTIVAL!

Audi and Elli showcased innovative green technologies and gave visitors the chance to get hands-on with our sustainable goals.

Check out what Dirk Voeste, our Chief Sustainability Officer, had to say! 👇

🔋🚘 We drive #eMobility at the GREENTECH FESTIVAL in Berlin!

⚡ Audi presents the new, fully electric Audi Q6 e-tron. Elli lets us into the progress in the development of an intelligent home ecosystem, which includes vehicles, charging infrastructure & location equally.

♻ Raw materials & recycling?
Yes, we are setting up a circular economy.

Check out the facts:
✅ Goal: recycle 90% of a battery cell
✅ Advantages: lower costs & reliable sourcing
✅ Our pilot facility in Salzgitter, Germany started in 2021

⚽ #Volkswagen extends its partnership with DFB (Verband) as the main partner until July 2028!

Together, we've supported:
✅women's football,
✅young talents,
✅inclusive football, and volunteering.
Proud partners of 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 🇳🇱🇨🇭 🇩🇰, too!

Getting ready for UEFA EURO 2024! 🌟

💪 Raw materials & powerful partners? Yes, we are teaming, e.g. with BASF & BMW to protect ecosystems.

Check this example, “Responsible Lithium Partnership”:
✅ Protects water in Chile’s Atacama basin
✅ 20 organizations for a joint-action plan
✅ 11 tech workshops on water

⚡🔋 Elli - A brand of the Volkswagen Group presents the first smart electricity tariff: Volkswagen Naturstrom Flex! Check out the facts:

🔌 follows the hourly day-ahead price curve
🔌 helps customers to save money
🔌 perfect for high energy consumers such as EVs & heat pumps

⚡ Hear what Thomas Schmall has to say about the raw material strategy.

🔋 Happy to share that PowerCo is securing our battery raw material requirements until 2030! To achieve this, we rely on long-term supply agreements with raw material producers.