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Volkswagen launches new joint venture for e-mobility in China
The Volkswagen Group is expanding its successful engagement in the People's Republic of China with a new joint venture. In the presence of Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Volkswagen signed a joint venture agreement with the Chinese automaker Anhui Jianghuai Automobile (JAC) in Berlin today. Each of the partners is to hold a 50 percent stake in the new company, which is to develop, produce and market electric vehicles and mobility services. "The new partnership is a further milestone in our electric offensive in China," said Matthias Müller, CEO of the Volkswagen Group, commenting on the agreement. "Just as we have played a key role in shaping mobility together with our partners in China over the past 30 years or more, we want to play our part in shaping the mobility of the future: electric, fully networked and in line with the needs of our customers."
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Volkswagen Group delivers 841,200 vehicles in April
Since the beginning of the year, the Volkswagen Group has handed over 3.3 million new vehicles to customers. In April, the Group delivered 841,200 vehicles (-1.4 percent). "At the beginning of the second quarter, we were able to increase our deliveries in China again. In April, the development in Volkswagen Group deliveries in Western Europe was better than the market as a whole, which was affected by the late date of the Easter holidays. At the same time, we experienced a strong tailwind in Central and Eastern Europe, where there was a marked increase in deliveries of new vehicles," said Fred Kappler, Head of Group Sales of Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, summarizing the figures for April.
Volkswagen Group delivers 841,200 vehicles in April
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Volkswagen Group starts fiscal year 2017 on a strong footing
In the first three months of the current fiscal year, the Volkswagen Group started on a strong footing in a challenging market and competitive environment. Group sales revenue rose by 10.3 percent year-on-year to EUR 56.2 billion. At EUR 4.4 billion, operating profit in the first quarter also significantly exceeded expectations. This corresponds to an operating return on sales of 7.8 percent following 6.1 percent in the prior-year quarter (all comparative prior-year figures are before special items). The robust results were due to volume- and mix-related factors, positive exchange rate effects and product cost optimization, as well as particularly the improvement in the Volkswagen brand's earnings, which rose to around EUR 0.9 billion. Other Group brands also contributed to the very good quarterly results.
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Volkswagen Group expedites joint extension of gas mobility
Volkswagen Group, operators of CNG filling stations and gas networks have signed a joint declaration of intent, committing themselves to the extension of CNG mobility. CNG signifies "Compressed Natural Gas" and can be both natural gas or regenerative gas gained from green electricity. The signers thereby corroborate the objectives of the "Round Table for Natural Gas Mobility" initiated by the Federal Ministry of Economy in 2016, where representatives of vehicle manufacturers, the gas industry, filling stations operators as well as representatives of important retail customers, fleet operators and the public sector came together.
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Unit sales of Volkswagen Truck & Bus with strong upward trend in first quarter of 2017
In the first three months of 2017 Volkswagen Truck & Bus sold around 46,000 trucks and buses of the MAN, Scania and Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus brands. All three brands improved their unit sales on the previous year – for the Group as a whole this amounts to a rise of 10%.
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Ad hoc Release: Volkswagen Group reports a significantly higher than expected operating result for the first quarter of 2017
The Operating Result for the Volkswagen Group is significantly higher than market expectations for the first quarter of 2017. The preliminary Group Operating Result for the first quarter is around €4.4 bn.
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990,900 vehicles delivered in March (+2.5 percent)
The Volkswagen Group delivered just under 2.5 million new vehicles to customers in the first quarter of this year. In March, the Volkswagen Group handed over 990,900 vehicles to its customers. "We finished the first quarter with good delivery figures for March. The growth drivers for the Volkswagen Group were Europe and the North and South America regions, which saw a marked increase in new vehicle deliveries", said Fred Kappler, Head of Group Sales at Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, commenting on the figures for March. "We expect to see a positive growth impetus in China in the second quarter", Kappler continued.
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Volkswagen Group will be Partner of the Reformation Anniversary 2017
The Volkswagen Group as the official partner of the Reformation anniversary will assist in realizing a programme of events throughout Europe exploring the history and the future of the Protestant Reformation.
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Note to editors: Changes in the Communications departments of Volkswagen Passenger Cars and Škoda
With effect from April 1, 2017, there are to be changes in the Communications departments of the Volkswagen Group. The new Head of Communications of the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand will be Peik von Bestenbostel (58). He succeeds Stefan Ohletz (55), who is leaving the Group at his own wish on the best of terms. Currently, von Bestenbostel heads the Communications Department of Škoda. In this function, he will be succeeded by Jens Katemann (42), previously Editor-in-Chief of motoring magazine "auto motor sport".
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Research project successful: Volkswagen IT experts use quantum computing for traffic flow optimization
The Volkswagen Group is the world's first automaker to intensively test the use of quantum computers. Volkswagen is cooperating with leading quantum computing company specialist D-Wave Systems. At CeBIT 2017, the two companies today announced their cooperation. In a first research project, IT experts from Volkswagen have already successfully developed and tested a traffic flow optimization algorithm on a D-Wave quantum computer.
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