German luxury carmaker Audi said Tuesday it planned to slash 9,500 jobs in Germany by 2025 as part of a massive overhaul to help finance a costly switch to electric vehicles.
The emissions cheating scandal, which on Tuesday saw three Volkswagen chiefs charged and its rival Daimler
heavily fined, has had major repercussions for the car industry since it broke
four years ago.
German prosecutors said Tuesday
they had charged Volkswagen chief executive Herbert Diess, former boss Martin
Winterkorn and supervisory board chief Hans Dieter Pötsch with "market manipulation" relating to the car giant's "dieselgate" scandal.
Former Audi chief executive Rupert
Stadler could become the first auto boss to stand trial in Germany over the
"dieselgate" emissions cheating scandal, four years and tens of billions of
euros after parent company Volkswagen first admitted to the scheme.
Efforts by courts to impose diesel driving bans are "self-destructive" and put German prosperity at risk, the transport minister warned Friday, as tempers flared in the battle against urban air pollution.
A German court released Tuesday former Audi chief executive Rupert Stadler after months in custody but he remains under suspicion in connection with parent group Volkswagen's role in
the "dieselgate" emissions cheating scandal.
Volkswagen said Tuesday its
subsidiary Audi had agreed to pay an €800 million fine issued by German prosecutors to close a diesel cheating investigation.
After years watching Tesla's electric cars speed ahead while they have been on the defensive over an industry-wide diesel emissions scandal, German high-end manufacturers have finally unveiled their first challengers to the Californian upstart.
The EU opened an in-depth probe into alleged collusion by major German carmakers over anti-pollution technology Tuesday, a fresh blow to the scandal-hit industry three years after the notorious "dieselgate."
Audi chief executive Rupert
Stadler was arrested on Monday in connection with parent company Volkswagen's "dieselgate" emissions cheating scandal, with prosecutors saying they feared he might try to destroy evidence.
German luxury brand Audi has stopped production of its latest A6 model over suspicions it contains software to manipulate emissions controls, local media reported on Tuesday, as the "dieselgate" scandal continues to dog parent company Volkswagen.
German prosecutors said Friday they have arrested a former executive of top-of-the-range car maker Audi in connection with the massive emissions-cheating scandal that has engulfed its parent company Volkswagen since 2015.
German authorities have found emissions-cheating devices on 24,000 Audi vehicles in Europe, including some 14,000 cars in Germany, transport minister Alexander Dobrindt said on Thursday.
German media reported on Wednesday that a police raid had been launched on Audi offices in connection with the so-called dieselgate emissions cheating scandal.
German carmaker Volkswagen will recall nearly 600,000 vehicles in the United States, most of them its premium Audi brand, over defects that could lead to fires or airbag malfunctions.
Major names in the auto industry found themselves caught in headlights of a global engine-rigging scandal on Friday as Volkswagen totted up the costs it faces so far.
German auto giant Volkswagen, mired in a massive emissions cheating scandal, said Monday that it has found technical solutions for more than 90 percent of the vehicles affected in Europe.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel pressed auto giant Volkswagen Tuesday to assure "full transparency" in a spiralling scandal over pollution test cheating.
Germany's mighty auto industry is stepping on the accelerator so it won't be left behind by a US upstart racing ahead in the market for luxury electric cars.
Security researchers have found that many vehicles produced by the Volkswagen group – including some of the world's biggest luxury brands like Audi and Porsche – have a security flaw that could let hackers access them without a key.
Mercedes-Benz cars are flying off the production line like never before, driving parent company Daimler closer to its goal of overtaking rivals Audi and BMW.
A section of the A9 Autobahn in Bavaria will be converted into a test route for self-driving cars, Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt said on Monday.
Car-maker Audi hopes to wow the world with a 900-kilometre tour for its self-driving prototype, from California's Silicon Valley to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
Volkswagen hopes to put more robots to work as it says goodbye to its retiring baby boomer employees, the company's chief of human resources wrote in the SĂĽddeutsche Zeitung on Monday.
