Volkswagen Group set to use platform model for issues of the future

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Christoph Oemisch
Christoph Oemisch
Corporate Communications Spokesperson, Finance and Sales
Dr. Christoph Ludewig
Dr. Christoph Ludewig
Corporate Communications Head of Corporate Communications
Volkswagen AG annual media conference 2021
The Board of Management of Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft at Annual Media Conference 2021.
  • Hardware, software, batteries and charging as well as mobility services of all Group brands are to be based on largely standardized technical foundations in future
  • New CFO Arno Antlitz presents his agenda for the coming years
  • CEO Herbert Diess: “By pooling the strengths of our brands, we will be able to scale up our future technologies even faster and maximize the number of people benefiting from them. Our good performance in 2020, a year dominated by crisis, will give us momentum for accelerating our transformation.”

Wolfsburg. The Volkswagen Group is stepping up the pace of its transformation into the leading provider of individual mobility in the electric and fully connected age. To this end, the Group will systematically enhance its successful platform strategy. In future, vehicles and services of all Group brands are to be based on largely standardized technical foundations. The Group’s new platform roadmap has four elements: Hardware, software, batteries and charging, as well as mobility services. This is how the Volkswagen Group will reduce complexity, leverage economies of scale and synergies between brands, and generally accelerate the Group’s transformation, which has already begun. In order to secure the investments in future technologies, the Group will continue to focus its core business and strengthen its financial foundation.

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