Tag: Volkswagen
Run in the Artic Circle for charity, a couple achieved almost £9,000
A couple have driven 8,850 km to raise money for charity. In March, Niall Dodds and his partner Sue Weaver drove their car, a 1968 Volkswagen Squareback, from Hereford to the North Cape. They raised an amount of £8,691 after their initial target of £5,500. The charity was for Macmillan Cancer Support. Dodds said they […]
Sales of electric cars are increasing strongly in Denmark
Electric cars sell fast in Denmark. In February, 3,148 new ones were bought by the Danes, according to De Danske Bilimportører. The increase is quite impressive, as there were 83.3 percent more sales than February 2022. “The new figures are a clear sign that the Danes are moving quickly when it comes to converting to […]
Internationalization awards of the President of the Republic to Kempower, K. Hartwall, Andritz and Kasvuryhmä Suomi
The Internationalization Award of the President of the Republic is awarded annually in recognition of internationally successful companies or organizations. The candidates were proposed by several business organizations. “In addition to international success, this year’s evaluation emphasized sustainable development and the ethics of operations, as well as the effects on Finnish know-how, innovation, employment development […]
Carlsberg will no longer advertise on Twitter after Elon Musk’s buyout
The Danish brewer Carlsberg has announced that it will no longer advertise on the social media platform Twitter. Denmark’s sixth largest listed company confirmed the news to the Financial Times, but did not say whether it would be gone forever or just for some time. “We have asked our marketing team to stop promotional activities […]
China Seeks to Improve Multilateral Mechanisms to Replace UN Agencies: Report
Peking [China]Sep 28 (ANI): Beijing is devising a strategy to promote regional and international multilateral forums as a replacement for UN bodies, said a recent article by the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR). According to the CICIR article titled ‘Global Security Initiative: China’s answer to Challenges’, the UN has failed to stem the […]
Volvo’s trucks leave Russia
The Swedish car manufacturer says that the measure is not a boycott of the country Swedish truck manufacturer AB Volvo has stopped all production and sales in Russia due to sanctions against Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine, the company announced on Monday. Press spokesman Klaas Eliasson told SVT that the company does not “have conditions […]
Rights groups are urging Tesla to close showrooms in China’s Xinjiang
SHANGHAI – American human rights and trade groups on Tuesday blew up Tesla’s New Year’s announcement that they had opened a showroom in Xinjiang, the latest foreign company caught up in tensions related to the Chinese region in the far west, where internment camps have been widely criticized. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the United […]
How the KGB captured America’s “Volkswagen Spy”
A photo album on the shelves of Ukraine’s KGB archives reveals how an American amateur spy was captured and then imprisoned 60 years ago. In the summer of 1961, a quiet, serious American student named Marvin Makinen pulled up to the Soviet border in a Volkswagen car. The chemistry student told the border guards that […]
Humans and robots go to school together – How robots help get a future job
“Automating boring, dirty and dangerous tasks changes the job profiles of factory workers for the better,” says Milton Guerry, President of the International Robotics Association. “Robot-led academies have a key role to play in enabling this transition. Employers send thousands of workers each year to robotics training.” Robot manufacturers drive training Robot manufacturers such as […]
China is about to build the best cars in the world
Europeans and other Western nations have dominated vehicle excellence for over a century. Whether it’s the satisfying thunder that the door closes on a Volkswagen from Wolfsburg, or the beauty of a Ferrari from Modena, these brands are iconic – and very lucrative for their manufacturers. When we think of reliability, Germans, and later the […]
The court says that Renault will not provide emission data
PARIS, France: Renault, the French-based carmaker, announced on June 8 that French prosecutors had been charged with fraudulent conduct in connection with a legal investigation launched four years ago into emissions from their diesel cars, focusing on several older models and alleged manipulative methods applied during testing. Many European carmakers have been scrutinized since the […]
Police hit a young insane driver and seized the car
– We wanted to get in touch with the driver of the car as he had a license plate that did not match. And then it went otherwise from there over the wild dares, says the guard chief. He estimates that the car drove over 30 kilometers before the police stopped it. – He drives […]
Kristian Åström: VW’s report shows what China means
What growth in China means for companies, Volkswagen’s sales report clearly showed today. That’s what Ekot’s financial commentator Kristian Åström says. Hear the analysis. Today, the German Volkswagen Group published the sales figures for the first quarter of this year. In China, sales rose by more than 60 percent compared to the same time last […]
The prosecutor accuses two of the Lapland explosion
Prosecutors have indicted two suspects in connection with the explosion of an explosive left under a car in the city of Tornio in Lapland last August. One of the accused also faces another charge of making explosives. The vehicle, a blue Volkswagen Transporter, had been hired for use by the Border Guard at the time […]
Volkswagen is building a network of battery cell systems in Europe
BERLIN, March 15 (Xinhua) – To meet the growing demand for battery cells, Volkswagen accelerated the development of production capacity in Europe, Germany’s largest carmaker announced on Monday. Six cell factories across Europe with a total production capacity of 240 Gigawatt hours (GWh) would be set up together with the company’s partners by 2030, according […]
Northvolt receives huge orders from Volkswagen
Battery manufacturer Northvolt has received an order from Volkswagen worth $ 14 billion, approximately SEK 120 billion, for the manufacture of battery cells. It is about production over a ten-year period at Northvolt’s factory in Skellefteå. Northvolt has thus secured a total of contracts worth more than $ 27 billion, from key customers.
Prosecutor: The assassination attempt on a party official was a crime that has not been seen in Finland for 90 years
The man went to trial on Tuesday as an accused entrepreneur of murdering an official in the Finnish Party in a politically motivated attack, according to the prosecutor. Prosecutors added that no similar attack has taken place in Finland since the 1930s. At the time, the far-right Lapua movement committed several political acts of violence. […]
Car hit wood and rolled several times – 19-year-old loses his life
– The car probably hit a tree on the side of the road and smoked out in a field, where it rolled around several times, says the guard chief. The young man from the Give area was pronounced dead at the scene. A 20-year-old man from the Ikast-Brande area in the car has also been […]
Thousands of VW diesel cars still not repaired
More and more of Volkswagen’s diesel cars in Sweden have been repaired after the emission cheat, but still about 15 percent of the cars have not been updated with new software. In Sweden, there are now around 218,000 diesel cars affected. “85 percent we think is a good number, at the same time we continue […]
Record number of electric cars sold in Denmark in September
Last week, the government announced that they would increase the number of electric cars in Denmark from the current 45,000 to 500,000 by 2030. It seems to have helped Denmark’s desire for a more sustainable mode of transport – at least according to new figures from the automotive industry. The figures showed that 2,340 new […]