A few years ago on a rainy Thursday evening, top executives from Volkswagen gathered at an old castle in Germany. In a dark room lit only by a crackling fire and the blueish glow of a flat-panel TV, they listened as Elon Musk droned on half a world away. He said crazy things like: “We […]
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Photos: Fall In Love With VW’s Sport Coupe Concept GTE
Volkswagen introduced its Sport Coupe Concept GTE at the Geneva Motor Show this week, and it speaks to us about future VW design language and the industry as a whole. As a fastback/slantback/long sedan type design, the sport coupe is trading on the capital of the Audi A7, Tesla Model S, Porsche Panamera and possibly […]
Volkswagen Buys $80 Million In Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car Patents
Want to buy hydrogen fuel cell technology on the cheap? Head to Canada! Sure, you could cross the border and visit MIT, but you know those U.S. prices will be baked on like brown sugar on a ham. Volkswagen is one of the world’s largest automakers, at some moments the largest depending on how many […]
Study: Americans Know How To Drive Safe, Yet Choose Not To
We like to leave you laughing, preferably from jokes and some sort of twist on news about Volkswagen. Traffic collisions and injuries aren’t light topics, but a safety study from AAA says that Americans’ driving behavior isn’t getting better these days—if anything it’s getting worse—so we’re here to talk about safety again. But here’s the […]
VW Announces Plans for High-Speed Electric Vehicle Charging Networks
Electric, electric, electric: what are we going to do with you? We’ve been perfecting the technology as you can see in spunky models like the e-Golf, and our recent investment in battery-maker QuantumScape. But it’s never been quite enough for you, has it? Something about electric has made people stare at their shoes while hemming […]