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Volkswagen Group adds board-level post for China as part of major management restructuring

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Jochem Heizmann, currently Group Board of Management member with responsibility for Commercial Vehicles, will head the new function. In this context, the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles brand will become part of the Commercial Vehicles business area going forward.

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Volkswagen Group appoints new heads of Global R&D, Group Design, Group Product and Modular Toolkit Strategy

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He began his career at Audi in Ingolstadt in 1987. Following various management functions at Volkswagen, SEAT and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Thomas became manager of Volkswagen’s Kassel plant in 1998. He held various responsibilities in the export section of Sales at Volkswagen AG from 1983.

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VW Group restructuring in response to emissions testing scandal; greater focus on the modular toolkits; Klinger out, Horn stays

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Vahland’s successor as Chairman of the Board of Directors at Škoda will be Bernhard Maier, until now Board Member for Sales and Marketing of Porsche AG. These toolkits (Baukasten) feature standardized technical components for each automotive vehicle segment (volume, premium, sport and commercial vehicles).

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Update: Top 10 Electric Cars

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Audi E-tron 5,612. It’s a robust list of a variety of models–the majority of which are focused on the hot crossover segment–with total sales of more than 150,000 from six major automaker groups. The German Juggernaut — the Volkswagen ID4, Audi E-tron(s) & Porsche Taycan. Tesla Model 3 80,681.

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Global Bioenergies beginning road testing with Audi A4 fueled with 34% renewable gasoline blends

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In preparation for commercial uses, Global Bioenergies developed several gasoline blends with two isobutene-derived compounds: Isooctane, obtained by the condensation of two molecules of isobutene followed by hydrogenation; and. An Audi A4 2.0 —Reiner Mangold, Head of sustainable product development at Audi.

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Volkswagen Group delivers more than 10M vehicles in one year for first time

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city car to heavy commercial vehicles. —Group Board member for Sales Christian Klingler. Including the figures for heavy commercial vehicles, Group brands delivered a total of 3.95 (3.75; +5.1%) million vehicles to customers on the overall European market in 2014. Audi grew deliveries year-on-year in almost all regions.

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Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

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In general, the commercial quality timber stand is young, healthy, and vigorously growing. Next is the baseline or business-as-usual carbon storage; i.e., the repeated logging of the forest with no other considerations that commercial. In addition there are numerous hardwood-dominated stands, predominately 30 to 50 year-old tanoak.

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