Tag: Thomas Schmall
Volkswagen plans to mass-produce dry-coated batteries
VW battery production The car manufacturer is working on a more efficient and environmentally friendly process. (Photo: Volkswagen) Wolfsburg The substance that Volkswagen is supposed to bring forward in the…
Volkswagen plans to mass-produce dry-coated batteries
VW battery production The car manufacturer is working on a more efficient and environmentally friendly process. (Photo: Volkswagen) Wolfsburg The substance that Volkswagen is supposed to bring forward in the…
Volkswagen plans to mass-produce dry-coated batteries
VW battery production The car manufacturer is working on a more efficient and environmentally friendly process. (Photo: Volkswagen) Wolfsburg The substance that Volkswagen is supposed to bring forward in the…
VW’s largest battery site is to be built in Canada
Volkswagen battery For its electric strategy, VW expects a battery requirement of between 60 and 100 gigawatt hours in North America by 2030. (Photo: Volkswagen AG) Shanghai The new battery…
VW lays foundation stone for battery factory in Spain
Laying of the foundation stone for the new VW Gigafactory From left: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, Spanish King Felipe VI, VW Group Technology Board Member Thomas Schmall, CEO of…
Volkswagen builds battery cell plant in Canada
Salzgitter Europe’s largest carmaker Volkswagen is building its next battery cell plant in North America, more precisely in Canada. The group and VW’s battery subsidiary PowerCo announced this on Monday…
Volkswagen is expanding charging network for e-cars with energy group Enel
Volkswagen is building its own charging infrastructure An electric car from VW is parked at a charging station in Berlin: Volkswagen wants to make access to charging stations as quick…
Volkswagen is expanding charging network for e-cars with energy group Enel
Volkswagen is building its own charging infrastructure An electric car from VW is parked at a charging station in Berlin: Volkswagen wants to make access to charging stations as quick…
Battery Alliance invests three billion euros
Electric car production at VW in Emden In December, the Wolfsburg-based company announced a technology alliance with Umicore for the large-scale production of batteries. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The Volkswagen Group…
US battery recyclers & Volkswagen form alliance
new York After Elon Musk, one of his long-time companions could soon be investing in Germany. JB Straubel, Tesla’s fifth employee and long-time head of technology, is examining the possibility…
Carmaker wants to get into the mining business
Miners in Canada Volkswagen wants to control the supply of raw materials for its battery cell production. (Photo: Bloomberg/Getty Images) New York, Vienna, Zurich In view of the impending bottlenecks…
Carmaker wants to get into the mining business
New York, Vienna, Zurich In view of the impending bottlenecks in important raw materials for battery production, Volkswagen wants to focus more on Canada. The car manufacturer and the Canadian…
VW wants to get into the mining business
New York, Vienna, Zurich In view of the impending bottlenecks in important raw materials for battery production, Volkswagen wants to focus more on Canada. The car manufacturer and the Canadian…
VW supplies Mahindra with electric car components
VW production Components from the ID series are also used in vehicles from the Indian manufacturer Mahindra. (Photo: IMAGO/Kirchner Media) Dusseldorf Volkswagen is intensifying its cooperation with the Indian car…
Into the future with “Salzgiga” – VW lays the foundation for a model plant for battery production
Salzgitter The VW Group begins building its first battery cell factory in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony. “Salzgiga will become the battery center for the entire group,” said CTO Thomas Schmall on…
How CEO Oliver Blume is separating Porsche from Volkswagen
Dusseldorf The most important project of the year was subject to special secrecy in Wolfsburg: the planned IPO of Porsche. A special board committee for the secret project “Phoenix” was…