Scelte strategiche Gruppo VAG

[Gabri Magnussen]

Peccato per TT, ai tempi fu l'auto della svolta estetica e da subito istant classic.
Se non vado errato, pure l'attuale porto come novità il virtual cockpit per il gruppo VAG.
Sarebbe stato carino sondare il terreno con una sportiva elettrica "popolare", proseguendo con la sigla TT.

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Volk­swa­gen Group and Greece to cre­ate model is­land for cli­mate-neu­tral mo­bil­ity

• Lighthouse project: Mediterranean island of Astypalea to transition to e-mobility, smart mobility solutions and green power generation          
• Volkswagen and Greece sign memorandum of understanding          
• Prime Minister Mitsotakis: “The ambitious endeavor is the result of a close partnership.” 
• CEO Diess: “E-mobility and connected mobility services will significantly improve the quality of life, while contributing to a carbon neutral future.”

The Volkswagen Group and Greece have agreed to establish a groundbreaking mobility system on the Mediterranean island of Astypalea. To that end, the current transport system on the island will transition to electric vehicles and renewable power generation. In the long run, Astypalea will become a model island for climate-neutral mobility. A memorandum of understanding to this effect was signed in Wolfsburg and Athen today by Konstantinos Fragogiannis, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Economic Diplomacy and Openness, and Dr. Herbert Diess, CEO of the Volkswagen Group. New mobility services such as vehicle sharing or ridesharing will help reduce and optimize traffic. Energy will be primarily generated from local green power sources such as solar and wind. The project initially will run for six years.

 

Dr. Herbert Diess, CEO of the Volkswagen Group, said: “Politics, business and society have a common responsibility to limit climate change. Our long-term goal is climate-neutral mobility for everyone. And with the Astypalea project we will explore how to realize that vision already today. E-mobility and smart mobility will improve the quality of life, while contributing to a carbon neutral future.”

The Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, said: “I strongly believe in partnerships. Governments can't deliver on their own and the private sector isn't the answer to every question. That is why this ambitious endeavor is the result of the close partnership between the Greek state and Volkswagen Group. A world leader in the automotive industry that aims at making its fleet of vehicles and the company carbon neutral by 2050; coming together with an European nation in full transformation mode.”

Konstantinos Fragogiannis, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, said: „Today is a great day for Astypalea, the Dodecanese Region, the Aegean Sea and all of Greece. Today we are launching the first ´Smart Green Island` project in our country, which marks a major change in our outlook. Electric transport and a holistic, green and sustainable action plan will have a positive impact on the everyday life of the island's inhabitants. Combined with a pioneering public transport system, we are turning futuristic ideas into reality. Today Greece shows that it is ready to adopt groundbreaking, innovative and flagship investments that take society to another level of connectedness, smart sustainability and innate usability.”

At the center of the project is an entirely new, cutting-edge transport system with digital mobility services, including an all-electric year-round ridesharing service designed to take the current very limited local bus service to a new level. Together with local partners, part of the traditional vehicle rental business will be transformed into a vehicle sharing service offering e-scooters from the Group’s SEAT brand and e-bikes in addition to electric cars. This alone will help to significantly reduce the vehicle fleet on the island. In total, some 1,000 electric vehicles shall replace about 1,500 vehicles with combustion engines. Volkswagen has just started to roll out its electric ID. family to the market, with the introduction of several new models planned over the next few years, in addition to the compact car ID.3⁰² and the SUV ID.4⁰³. Commercial vehicles from local businesses as well as utility vehicles on the island – such as police vehicles, emergency services transport and public sector fleets – will also be electrified. Volkswagen will install its Elli chargers across the island to ensure a comprehensive charging infrastructure offering about 230 private and several public charging points.

The project is strongly supported by Volkswagen’s independent Sustainability Council as it serves as a blueprint for Volkswagen’s decarbonization strategy. Margo T. Oge, Member of the Sustainability Council and former Director of the Office of Transportation Air Quality of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): “Climate change poses an existential threat to humanity. E-mobility, in conjunction with renewable energy will help reduce the worst impacts of climate change. There is an

Aristotle saying: ‘It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.’ The Astypalea project is a light in the darkness and will help demonstrate the future of clean mobility."

Astypalea is an island in the southern Aegean Sea covering an area of some 100 square kilometers. It has a population of approx. 1,300 and is visited by some 72,000 tourists each year. Astypalea currently only has a very limited public transport service with two buses that only operate on a small area of the island. At present, energy demand is almost entirely met by fossil fuel sources. The island aspires to become a pioneer for sustainable tourism over the coming years and is therefore backing sustainable mobility. The Hellenic Republic supports this transformation within the framework of its National Energy & Climate Plan.

The Volkswagen Group is committed to the goals of the Paris Agreement. The Group is aiming to become climate neutral by 2050 and has drawn up the “goTOzero” sustainability strategy to achieve this target. The largest electric push in the automobile industry is at the heart of this strategy: The Group will be investing some €33 billion in e-mobility in the next five years and launch about 75 new electric models by 2029. Volkswagen’s compact ID.3⁰², which recently went on sale, is the first of these models. The project on Astypalea is an integral part of the “goTOzero” strategy and is to serve as a blueprint for the total decarbonization of mobility. Under the umbrella of the Volkswagen Group, several brands are engaged in this endeavor – they include Volkswagen, SEAT, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, the energy service provider Elli and UMI Urban Mobility International with the We Share brand.

 

 

 

Progetto interessante. 

L'idea di base non è male, si potrebbe applicare in futuro anche in altri centri urbani.

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Bentley plans to become electric-only brand

 

Bentley will drop internal combustion engines from its cars by 2030 and switch its entire model range to full-electric vehicles.

The Volkswagen Group ultraluxury brand also confirmed it will add two plug-in hybrids next year and its first full-electric car in 2025.

The full-electric car will be the first of a family of EVs, Bentley's engineering chief, Matthias Rabe, said during an online presentation on Thursday.

The moves are part of Bentley’s strategy to position itself as an ethical company with the aim of being climate neutral by 2030.

By 2026, the brand will only offer plug-in hybrid and full-electric models as part of a strategy called Beyond 100, which references its 100-year history.

"Within a decade, Bentley will transform from a 100-year-old luxury car company to a new, sustainable, wholly ethical role model for luxury," CEO Adrian Hallmark said in a statement on Thursday.

Bentley declined to give more details on its future models, but the plug-in hybrids due next year are expected to be versions of the Flying Spur sedan and the Continental GT coupe.

Bentley currently sells only one plug-in hybrid -- the Bentayga Hybrid SUV -- amid its lineup of models with eight- and 12-cylinder engines.

Bentley will become electric within four to five years, VW Group CEO Herbert Diess said on a Bloomberg online event on Thursday.

Bentley has previously hinted that its first full-electric car could be an SUV built using VW Group’s Premium Platform Electric (PPE) underpinnings currently being developed by Porsche and Audi, which are also owned by VW Group. Last December, Hallmark told Automotive News Europe that Bentley aims to transition onto a new VW Group architecture.

Bentley is planning to switch the replacement for the Continental GT and Flying Spur, which share their MSB platform with the Porsche Panamera, onto the PPE platform, sources told Automobilwoche, a sister publication of Automotive News Europe.

Bentley's future has long been the subject of discussion among VW Group's top managers, who have been frustrated by the brand's lack of consistent profitability.

The latest plan, according to the Automobilwoche report, is to transfer control of Bentley to Audi from Porsche, with the aim of having Bentley use more of Audi's technology.

Bentley was profitable in 2019 and was predicting a record-setting 2020 before the coronavirus pandemic hit. It was bullish after expanding the sales markets for its delayed Continental GT and Flying Spur cars into the U.S. and China, and launching the heavily face-lifted Bentagya.

Hallmark said in June that Bentley will lose money this year after it was forced to halt production at its factory in Crewe, England, in the spring during a government lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19. He said the brand could still beat last year’s sales figures as demand rebounds, particularly in China.

Bentley said it was able to reduce job losses designed to lessen the financial impact of the coronavirus lockdowns from the planned 1,000 -- a quarter of its workforce -- to 800 as its finances improved.

Bentley said that the job cuts as well as a cost restructuring will give the brand a "consistently profitable business model for the next 100 years."

The brand's program to reduce its carbon footprint includes fitting 30,000 solar panels around its headquarters and factory in Crewe.

Bentley said the factory would be "climate positive" by 2030 as it further cuts waste and buys more electricity from renewable sources.

 

(AutomotiveNews Europe)

[GL91]

Boh, io capisco l'esigenza di proporre modelli elettrici e adeguarsi al mondo che cambia, ma sinceramente fatico a pensare che tra 10 anni non ci saranno più persone interessate ad una Bentley con un motore V8, se non W12 addirittura. Evidentemente ritengono che non ce ne saranno abbastanza da giustificare gli investimenti, a me pare strano, ma forse sono io che ho una visione distorta della questione.

[ciciuporchittu]

Non capisco nemmeno io il cambio di rotta che sta prendendo il mondo dell' automotive ma posso pensare che sia meglio una fine gloriosa di autovetture simili con v8 o superiori piuttosto che piegarsi alla moda dei downsizing spinti che decreterebbero la morte morale e commerciale di tali mezzi.

 

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Dopo tre anni Stephan Winkelmann tornera come CEO alla Lamborghini dal 1.Dic.

Lui guida poi  Bentley e Lambo in modo parallelo.

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11 ore fa, 4200blu scrive:

Dopo tre anni Stephan Winkelmann tornera come CEO alla Lamborghini dal 1.Dic.

Lui guida poi Bugatti e Lambo in modo parallelo.

Edit 😜

 

 

Assieme alla notizia del ritorno di Winkelmann in Lamborghini, Diess ha parlato del futuro dei marchi italiani del gruppo VAG.

 

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La Volkswagen sta lavorando allo scorporo della Lamborghinie della Ducati. L'operazione, confermata a grandi linee dall'amministratore delegato Herbert Diess, rientrerà all'interno del programma di semplificazione delle attività operative dei tedeschi e di contestuale focalizzazione sulla produzione di massa di auto elettriche.

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2 minuti fa, lukka1982 scrive:

La Volkswagen sta lavorando allo scorporo della Lamborghinie della Ducati. L'operazione, confermata a grandi linee dall'amministratore delegato Herbert Diess,

 

Nella stampa tedesca scrivono per questa operazione di combinare e scorporare le aziende italiane fa parte anche Italdesign.

 

[Cole_90]

Momento, momento, svio un'attimo la discussione sullo scorporo con una news niente male:

 

#Pills: Automotive News Europe avrebbe agguantato un documento interno di Volkswagen che vorrebbe il cinese Tayron come sostituto del Tiguan Allspace in Europa, con produzione a Wolfsburg. Il documento sarebbe stato inviato agli organi competenti (fabbriche) e poi rigirato al sito d'informazione (spesso preciso e anche a pagamento) di cui sopra.

 

 

 

Io sono favorevole.

 

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VW could get a large SUV based on the Tayron sold in China. The Tayron is shown here at the 2018 Guangzhou auto show.
 
 

FRANKFURT -- Volkswagen will build a large SUV for the European market starting in 2024 as part of its latest investment plans for its home factory in Wolfsburg, Germany.

The vehicle will be based on the Tayron SUV sold by the automaker's Chinese joint venture, FAW-Volkswagen, and could potentially replace the Tiguan AllSpace.

"The main plant was awarded production of a large, seven-seat SUV that will run off Assembly Line 2. The model will orient itself on the Tayron currently produced in China," an internal document detailing VW's investment plans says. The document was sent to the workforce and was also obtained by Automotive News Europe.

Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess launched an SUV offensive as a core pillar of his 2016 restructuring plan for the VW brand. It foresaw two core SUV models flanking the Tiguan, the group's best-selling model, on each end of the model range.
With the arrival of the small T-Cross and compact T-Roc, the portfolio was rounded out from the bottom.

To complement the upscale Touareg, VW imported a long-wheelbase version of the Tiguan built in Mexico into Europe, called the Tiguan Allspace.

The Tayron-based model that arrives in or around 2024 would finally mean VW brand has a standalone SUV model for the midsize to full-size segment.

 

(AutomotiveNews)

 

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