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We're almost at the end of the first month of the Volkswagen scandal, which now includes 11 million cars and Leonardo DiCaprio. VW's US boss has testified to Congress, blaming a few rogue software engineers. All the while, questions have raged about VW Group's future: which projects are safe, which ones are on the chopping block, and how exactly will the company recover from this?
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VW's board has finally started to answer some of those swirling questions. For starters, there's going to be much more emphasis on electrification. Electric vehicles and hybrids have played more of a bit part at VW, compared to Toyota, GM, and domestic rivals BMW and Mercedes-Benz. That's going to change with a standard electric architecture that can be used across multiple vehicles and brands.VW Group isn't devoid of hybrid and EV know-how. Audi's Le Mans program has taught it a lot about high voltage automotive systems, and Porsche has a wealth of experience from the 918 Spyder, Panamera Hybrid, and even the 919 Hybrid racer. VW would be smart to leverage all these programs.
VW is the largest car company in Europe. This is what sudden, disruptive technological change looks like.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 16 2015, @03:20PM
Wonderful, we need a new source of Eurotard snobbery. Much like the crowing of how higher percentages of multi-lingual populations clearly show some innate moral and cultural superiority over the US and rest of the world, about ten years out we will hear how their higher proportions of EV vehicles on the road will obviously signify some innate moral and cultural superiority over the US and the rest of the world. Both cases largely ignoring the fact that those situations were unwillingly thrust upon them, the first necessitated by the fact that you have two or more populations speaking different languages confined to relatively small spaces, and the latter for the reasons you state.
There's a reason there are no European Googles and such, it is because to be in the best constitution for innovative and entrepreneurial thinking, one needs to look up from looking down one's nose and one needs the stick extracted from up inside their backside.