Tag: Volkswagen

• Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 10:06 UTC

  Did Volkswagen use slave labor during Brazil's dictatorship?

  

  Brazil's Labor Attorney (MPT) has summoned carmaker Volkswagen for an administrative hearing following reports that the company benefitted from slave labor in the 1970s and 1980s in Santana do Araguaia, in the State of Pará, it was announced Monday.

• Wednesday, July 14th 2021 - 08:30 UTC

  Volkswagen picks Uruguay to make e-cars Latin American landing

  

  The traditional German automaker Volkswagen has chosen Uruguay as the first country in Latin America to receive its assortment of fully electricity-powered models, it was announced during a ceremony which was attended by President Luis Lacalle Pou.

• Wednesday, June 30th 2021 - 00:18 UTC

  Volkswagen goes electric and ends making internal combustion engines in 2035

  

  Germany's Volkswagen will no longer make cars with internal combustion engines in Europe by 2035, a board member said. The announcement comes as carmakers in Europe face mounting pressure to combat climate change and curb emissions under new EU regulations

• Friday, June 18th 2021 - 09:23 UTC

  Major European firms sign agreement for sustainable exploitation of Chilean lithium

  

  As the world transitions from fossil fuels to sustainable energy-powered vehicles, four European giants have signed an agreement for the sustainable exploitation of Chilean lithium, it was announced Thursday in Santiago.

• Saturday, March 20th 2021 - 09:07 UTC

  VW closing down production in four plants in Brazil because of the pandemic

  

  Germany's Volkswagen said on Friday that it will suspend production at its four plants in Brazil owing to a surge in coronavirus infections in the country. The Wolfsburg-based firm said it will stop factories from March 24 for a 12-day period “to protect the health of its employees and their families.”

• Friday, September 25th 2020 - 08:52 UTC

  VW Brazil agrees US$ 6,5 million compensation for persecution of ex workers during the 1964/85 dictatorship

  

  Volkswagen will pay about 36 million reais (US$ 6.5 million) in compensation and donations to atone for the persecution of former employees during Brazil's 1964-1985 military dictatorship, the automaker said.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 07:31 UTC

  Argentina auto industry rebounding gradually from zero production in April

  

  The Argentine auto industry bottomed out in April, the first full month of the quarantine in force in the country since March 20. With all its factories closed since that day, not a single vehicle left the assembly lines, a catastrophe without historical precedent. But little by little, last week they came back to life under strict sanitary protocols, with only one shift per day and production at one-third of the installed capacity.

• Thursday, July 11th 2019 - 14:10 UTC

  Mariachis play as last Volkswagen Beetle ever rolls off Puebla assembly line

  

  Carmakers Volkswagen hosted a ceremony in Puebla, Mexico, Wednesday to mark the discontinuation of the famed Beetle or Bug model as the last unit ever rolled off the assembly line to a mariachi band and surrounded by proud factory workers, the company announced.

• Tuesday, April 16th 2019 - 06:37 UTC

  Diesel emissions scandal: Volkswagen's ex CEO charged in Germany

  

  The former chief executive of the carmaker Volkswagen has been charged in Germany over his involvement in the company's diesel emissions scandal. The public prosecutor in Braunschweig charged Martin Winterkorn and four other managers with fraud. VW said it would not comment on the indictments.

• Tuesday, March 26th 2019 - 08:26 UTC

  Germany's second wealthiest family admits Hitler links and exploiting slave labor under Nazi rule

  

  A German industrial dynasty with big stakes in various international brands has admitted brutality towards slave laborers during Nazi rule. A partner in JAB Holding, Peter Harf, said the Reimann family was shocked by links to Nazi abuses, discovered by the Bild am Sonntag newspaper in archives.