Weekly Roundup #2

July 29, 2022

🚗VW

  1. New CEO for Volkswagen AGSource

    1. Oliver Blume follows Herbert Diess as Chairman of the Board of Management of the Volkswagen Group (Link)

    2. Volkswagen Plotted Diess’s Ouster While He Was Out Visiting U.S. Plant, Claims Report (Link)

    3. Exclusive Automobilwoche - This is why Herbert Diess had to go (Link)

    4. Why Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess Was Forced Out (Link)

    5. VW Billionaire Clan Plotted CEO Ouster as He Was on US Trip (Link)

  2. Volkswagen starts U.S. assembly of all-electric ID.4 flagship in Chattanooga, Tennessee (Link)

  3. Volkswagen enters global battery business with “PowerCo” (Link)

  4. Porsche’s F1 buy-in of Red Bull (Link)

  5. Audi: Modular Assembly: Innovative assembly and logistics concept is about to be ready for serial production (Link)

  6. Rethinking the car with CARIAD's unified architecture of the future (Link)

⚡EV

  1. Ford's answer to EV supply chain hell: Cheaper batteries (Link)

  2. The EV Roadmap - SME (Link)

  3. Tesla locks 80 miles of customer’s battery range for $4,500 ransom (Link)

  4. GM and LG to build 3 US EV battery factories with a $2.5B DOE loan (Link)

  5. Stora Enso and Northvolt partner to develop wood-based batteries (Link)

  6. CATL LFP Batteries without Modules in Ford Mustang Mach-E and F-150 Lightning (Link)

  7. EV Makers Think They’ve Figured Out What Women Want (Link)

  8. General Motors Announces Two Major Long-Term Supply Agreements for Enough Lithium and Cathode Material to Build 5 Million EVs (Link)

🔌Connected

  1. Spotify's Car Thing player is no longer a thing (Link)

  2. Tesla to begin charging for basic connectivity services after eight years (Link)

🤖Autonomous

  1. New rules to improve road safety and enable fully driverless vehicles in the EU (Link)

🚎 Mobility

  1. Germany’s 9€ ticket: A potential solution for urban-mobility issues (Link)

📚 Interesting Reads

  1. Automotive Semiconductors: The new ICE age (Link)

  2. Intro Article from NXP - A Service-Oriented Architecture for the Automotive Industry (Link)

⭐Future

  1. The future of cars is a subscription nightmare - The Verge (Link)

  2. Hyundai And Kia Are Going To The Moon With South Korea’s Space Agency (Link)

  3. Nissan Puts Its ARIYA EV In The Metaverse (Link)

  4. Snapdragon Spaces (AR/VR/XR) (Link)