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Volkswagen picks up pace of transformation with new ACCELERATE strategy

Green Car Congress

To be able to finance the sizable future investments, the company will systematically work on increasing its efficiency with ACCELERATE. In South America and the United States, Volkswagen is striving to break even in the current fiscal year. Plans for an electric car under the ID.3 Increasing profitability.

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Roskill: record cobalt deals in Q1 2018 show raw material procurement for Li-ion batteries revving up

Green Car Congress

With an increasing amount of Li-ion battery raw material refining and processing centred in China, and it being front-and-center of Li-ion demand growth, Chinese Li-ion value chain participants have turned to Australia, Africa and South America to secure the feedstock necessary for their downstream requirements.

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Volkswagen again reaffirms 20 new PEV models coming across the Group; MEB development

Green Car Congress

We plan to make electric cars one of Volkswagen’s new hallmarks. The delivery figures also include the vehicles sold by the Chinese joint ventures. The business of the Chinese joint ventures is not included in the Group’s sales revenue and operating profit, however. —Matthias Müller. Last year, Volkswagen sold 3.5

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BYD has no plans to enter the US Market amid “complications’ [Feature]

Teslarati

BYD Executive Vice President and CEO of BYD Americas sat down with Yahoo Finance , and talked about the Chinese automaker’s lack of presence in the US Market and the global electric vehicle (EV) market. I just can’t emphasize this enough: that the vast majority of people buying a car is about the monthly payment.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

News | Markets | Technology | Personal Finance | Small Business | CNN.com RSS Newsletters Video Home Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Warren Buffett takes charge Warren Buffett hasnt just seen the car of the future, hes sitting in the drivers seat. The car came straight to Omaha from the Detroit auto show.

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