Tag: car industry
Mercedes quarterly figures: record margin of 15 percent
Mercedes boss Ola Källenius Premium models such as the S-Class bring Mercedes record profits. (Photo: Reuters) Frankfurt Higher prices, hardly any discounts and a focus on luxury cars: Thanks to…
Mercedes increases profit significantly in the first quarter
Mercedes boss Ola Källenius Premium models such as the S-Class bring Mercedes record profits. (Photo: Reuters) Frankfurt The carmaker Mercedes-Benz increased profits again in the first quarter despite a drop…
Supplier calls for crisis aid from car manufacturers
Mahle logo The manufacturer of drive technology and thermal management was able to recover last year from the corona-related slump of the previous year. (Photo: imago images/Nordphoto) Stuttgart The supplier…
MAN restarts truck production
MAN is producing again The loss-making truck manufacturer has found a new supplier for cable harnesses. (Photo: dpa) Munich After six weeks of standstill, the truck manufacturer MAN will start…
Pepper Motion wants to convert trucks and buses to electric drives
Munich The high fuel prices could further accelerate the conversion of trucks and buses to electric drives. However, electric trucks are currently hard to come by and expensive to buy…
Software subsidiary Cariad “overwhelmed” according to critics
Herbert Diess The VW boss has been responsible for the Cariad software unit himself since the beginning of the year. (Photo: Volkswagen AG) Dusseldorf At the beginning of the year,…
Herbert Diess’ fate depends on the Cariad software unit
Herbert Diess The VW boss has been responsible for the Cariad software unit himself since the beginning of the year. (Photo: Volkswagen AG) Dusseldorf At the beginning of the year,…
Tesla presents record figures – the Shanghai lockdown is a burden
new York He can’t help himself: Tesla boss Elon Musk had actually announced last July that he wanted to stay away from the presentation of the quarterly figures and the…
EU car market collapses by a fifth in March
New BMW cars in Cuxhaven The Russian invasion of Ukraine had already exacerbated the industry’s problems in February and caused new registrations in the EU to fall to their lowest…
Honda plans billion offensive in electric cars
Tokyo Honda is known for special ways. This is already evident in the boardroom, which literally takes up an entire floor. The board members do not sit in their own…
Bosch acquires Five and accelerates software development
Stuttgart The race for the self-driving car is the most exciting future question in the automotive industry. Only those who are ahead here will make the leap into the digitization…
Auto industry: Gas embargo would mean cuts
car industry Employee representatives expect production cuts if Russian gas deliveries fail to materialize. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf Employee representatives in the German automotive industry are concerned about the gas supply…
Car manufacturer wants to halve its CO2 emissions by 2030
Munich It was a signal of departure. A few days before he officially took office as CEO of Mercedes-Benz almost three years ago, Ola Källenius announced that he wanted to…
Car sales drop significantly in March
Audi production in Tianjin China is by far the most important single market for German automakers. (Photo: imago images/VCG) Beijing In China, car sales fell in March. The number of…
China’s automakers are taking off in Europe
Munich, Dusseldorf Brazen copies, poor quality: Chinese car manufacturers still have a dubious reputation in Germany today. The pictures of when a door handle fell off at the IAA trade…
Bosch, Continental, ZF: Automotive suppliers are fighting for future business
Stuttgart, Munich, Dusseldorf In the future business of automated driving, German automotive suppliers are at risk of losing important parts of the development. For decades, Bosch, Continental and ZF were…
The US manufacturer is building cars at record speed
Revolution in Gruenheide Elon Musk wants to accelerate car production in Germany with the Gigafactory. Grünheide A spooky noise regularly chases through the factory buildings in Grünheide. It’s the whistle…
Fanuc wants to gain market share with longevity
Munich Sometimes the inquiries come from the most remote regions: When many countries were in lockdown due to Corona, a beverage company from New Caledonia, an archipelago deep in the…
Withdrawal from Russia – restructuring course in danger
Production line at the Renault plant in Moscow The French carmaker is suspending industrial activities in Russia. (Photo: imago images / ITAR-TASS) Boulogne Billancourt Because of the war in Ukraine,…
VW wants chips from Magdeburg
Planned Intel chip factory Intel wants to build in Magdeburg and could then also supply Volkswagen in neighboring Wolfsburg. (Photo: dpa) Wolfsburg, Munich Nothing works anymore: At Volkswagen, the production…