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Suppliers demand cost sharing from manufacturers
Paint shop at Porsche Unlike the suppliers, the car manufacturers recently reported record margins. (Photo: Porsche AG/Marco Prosch) Dusseldorf, Stuttgart In the automotive industry, the distribution battle between suppliers and…
Mercedes-Benz removes three cars from its portfolio
Mercedes boss Ola Källenius with the S-Class Anyone who wants to buy a Mercedes in the future will have to pay significantly more for it. (Photo: Bloomberg) Munich Throughout its…
Mercedes-Benz: Automaker paints three compact cars
Mercedes boss Ola Källenius with the S-Class Anyone who wants to buy a Mercedes in the future will have to pay significantly more for it. (Photo: Bloomberg) Munich Throughout its…
Carmaker wants to make lithium supply more sustainable
Electric car from BMW The Munich-based carmaker wants to be ahead of the competition when it comes to new technologies by investing in start-ups. (Photo: Reuters) Munich It is a…
Renault sells Avtovaz majority stake
Lada production in Izhevsk Renault has to write off almost 2.2 billion euros on the Russian business. (Photo: Reuters) Paris Renault’s withdrawal from the important Russian business is official: the…
Parts from the Ukraine are coming reliably again
VW general meeting Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess warned at the virtual AGM that the global economy would break up into several blocks. (Photo: IMAGO/sepp spiegl) Dusseldorf The VW Group does…
Volkswagen renaming: Prime Minister Weil rejects
Stephen Weil The Prime Minister of Lower Saxony also sits on the Volkswagen Supervisory Board. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Lower Saxony’s Prime Minister Stephan Weil has spoken out against a new…
Imelda Labbé becomes Head of Sales at Volkswagen Passenger Cars
Imelda Labbe On July 1, the manager will take over the sales department on the Board of Management of the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand. (Photo: Volkswagen Group) Dusseldorf Women in…
Ford with a drop in sales in the first quarter
Ford F-150 Lightning The best-selling pick-up in the USA will soon also be available as an electric vehicle. (Photo: AP) Dearborn The chip crisis and global supply chain problems also…
Ford with a drop in sales in the first quarter
ford The US automaker exceeded analysts’ expectations. (Photo: Bloomberg) Dearborn The chip crisis and global supply chain problems also slowed down Ford at the beginning of the year. In 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…
BMW attacks the Mercedes S-Class
New i7 from BMW The carmaker wants to sell more than 80,000 units per year from the model series in the future. (Photo: BMW) Munich The doors open automatically, the…
Tesla: Quarterly figures – The three most important questions from analysts
Elon Musk at the opening of the Tesla Gigafactory in Grünheide How quickly will the US group be able to ramp up production? (Photo: IMAGO/Political Moments) Dusseldorf The billion-dollar takeover…
Investors complain about disappointing margins at BMW
BMW boss Oliver Zipse Shareholders complain that the CEO rarely seeks to talk to them. (Photo: Reuters) Munich In the past year, BMW almost exclusively achieved record values. The Munich…
Investors complain about disappointing margins at BMW
BMW boss Oliver Zipse Shareholders complain that the CEO rarely seeks to talk to them. (Photo: Reuters) Munich In the past year, BMW almost exclusively achieved record values. The Munich…
VW brings in billions in profit and warns of the consequences of the Ukraine war
Volkswagen production in Zwickau The carmaker warns of the consequences of the Ukraine war on business. (Photo: Reuters) Dusseldorf Despite the war in Ukraine and faltering production due to the…
Mercedes wants to halve the consumption of electric cars
Munich The car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz has managed something like a “small landing on Mars”, rejoices Head of Development Markus Schäfer. In concrete terms, the Dax group was able to cover…
Hans Michel Piëch & Wolfgang Porsche want to be on the Porsche Supervisory Board again
Dusseldorf At the age of 80, most people are actually thinking about retirement. But not Hans Michel Piëch and Wolfgang Porsche. In mid-May, the annual general meeting of the family…
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 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…