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Volkswagen AG and its Group brands are donating one million euros of emergency aid for the regions affected by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria. The UNO-Flüchtlingshilfe e.V. and the German Red Cross (DRK) will receive 500,000 euros of the donation each. The Volkswagen Group, together with the Group Works Council are also calling on employees to contribute to the donations to help those affected by the earthquake.

The Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, and Volkswagen Group CEO Oliver Blume met today in Madrid to discuss a wide-ranging investment plan that will help transform Spain into an industrial hub for electric mobility.

Elke Temme, who leads the Charging and Energy Business Unit with the brands Elli and Electrify America and bundles the Group's global activities on charging infrastructure and energy services within the Group's Technology Division, is stepping down from her duties with immediate effect. For private reasons, Temme is taking a three-month sabbatical and will then be available to the company part time until the end of the year. The new SVP Charging and Energy will be Giovanni Palazzo, who is responsible for the North American DC-charging network Electrify America as President and CEO since 2018. Due to this change he will become chairman of the Electrify America board effective February 15, 2023.

Sally Perel passed away in Tel Aviv yesterday, aged 97. Volkswagen AG mourns the loss of an important eyewitness who, until his death, never tired of warning against false ideals. Sally Perel consistently campaigned for respect and tolerance, for a peaceful coexistence, and for respect for all human beings. Into advanced age he travelled throughout Germany, Europe and the world, primarily to call the younger generation to critical, independent thinking, and to fight against exclusion and violence.

Volkswagen is going to commemorate the victims of the Nazi regime on Friday, January 27, 2023, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the Memorial Day for the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp. By acting as partner of the exhibition “Sixteen objects – Seventy Years of Yad Vashem” in Berlin and holding memorial ceremonies at Auschwitz and at the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg, the Group honors the memory and calls for public remembrance and tribute to the victims.

Prof. Dr. Carl Horst Hahn has passed away. As Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG and member of the supervisory board for numerous national and international companies, Carl Hahn was one of the most important European entrepreneurs. He had a lasting impact on the Volkswagen Group and its suppliers, but also assumed long-term responsibility for the communities he lived in.

The Volkswagen Group has made significant progress in its electric transformation in 2022. Despite supply constraints and temporary production stops, 572,100 all-electric vehicles were handed over to customers around the globe. Compared to 2021, this is a substantial increase of 26 percent. The BEV share of total deliveries thus reached 6.9 percent, up from 5.1 percent a year earlier. The Volkswagen Group remains the BEV market leader in its home market of Europe and reached the fourth position in this segment in the United States. The strongest increase came from China, were BEV deliveries were up by 68 percent y-o-y. Due to abovementioned challenges, overall global deliveries were down 7 percent on prior year to 8.3 million vehicles. In the second half of 2022, a slightly improved supply situation led to an increase of deliveries of 12 percent y-o-y. However, this could not make up for the losses of 22 percent y-o-y in the first half year. The Group’s order bank remains on a high level of 1.8 million vehicles in Western Europe alone, thereof 310,000 BEVs.