ZWICKAU, Germany—Five years and nearly $50 billion into the auto industry’s biggest bet on electric vehicles, Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess and his guest, Chancellor Angela Merkel, stood in anticipation as the first ID.3, Germany’s long-awaited answer to Tesla, rolled off the assembly line.
The event at the company’s flagship EV plant just over a year ago marked a “systemic shift from the combustion engine to the electric vehicle,” said Thomas Ulbrich, leader of the ID.3 effort.It could drive, turn corners and stop on a dime. But the fancy technology features VW had promised were either absent or broken. The company’s programmers hadn’t yet figured out how to update the car’s software remotely.
After years of development, Volkswagen decided in June last year to delay the launch and sell the first batch of cars without a full array of software, pending a future update, which is now scheduled for mid-February. Tens of thousands of ID.3 owners will have to bring their cars in for service to have the new software installed.
sejorg This is becoming a trend with Volkswagen. Their diesel vehicles were made, intentionally, with carbon monoxide cheaters, to fool the tests, and still pollute as much carbon. Corporations will take advantage, as long as we allow them to continue. ReformTheNorm sustainability
Lazy engineers, short cutting testing? Remember it hasn't been that long since the dirty emissions scandal.
HedgeyeIndstrls these guys out to make VW EVs look like a failure - what's the motive here....
The Germans are at least modest, unlike this shameless American newspaper owned by Murdock! The fact is VW plug-in electric cars grew ~200% in 2020 vs $TSLA 36%! And not just VW, look at this chat on EU market trend, thanks to fly4dat
VW can't do that without carbon emission...
😂😂😂😂😂😂
1 yr has passed the only research paper for a natural origin of COVID-19 is the infamous study published last March in Nature: the Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2. At least two authors are getting money from China. One is honored by CCP. The virus was made & leaked from a PLA lab.
Germany auto makers lag far bind Chinese EV makers. But that Germany woman hasn't realized the fact, so she pushed the signature of European-China investment agreement. She will find several yrs later that how China's EV makers eat those Germany auto makers in Europe.
I'd still bet on VW. They aren't going to quit.
They underestimated the musk work involved
Make a prototype(s) and then test the hell out of it maybe?
Yet more pro Tesla garbage from the WSJ, a bit of a pattern here. Starting to wonder what their vested interest is. The actual “story” is that VW’s BEV sales grew 5x faster than TSLA’s in 2020.
Impossible, no chance for Volkswagen now. Tesla and Chinese motor cars manufactures have taken advantages in this field. Especially Chinese manufactures, AI autopilot cars are testing in many cities in China. The European old gentles can never imagine that in their countries.
sejorg
cost, battery life, maintenance cost benefits, styling.....
lies
Trump hasn't been jailed yet?
Is this implying Tesla cars do work as advertised?
CCP is committing UyghurGenocide And Angela is supporting the trade with CCP. So is it ok to trade with murderes to make them rich in Germany? Is this the message are you giving to Germans Angela?
Is she soooooo stupid? Does she really think China will ever allow a German or American company to be the world leading car company?
Wow wow wow, CCP is committing Uyghurgenocide . the Volkswagen PR Angela is supporting CCP to get market for VWGroup .What an honest picture. This picture and the article tell you a lot. The title of the article should be ' How Angela Merkel is managing not to betray Hitler.'
Volkswagen VW VWGroup UKVolkswagen 🇩🇪 Apparently is suffering from incompetence.
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Tweetermeyer ElectricDuck1 Fab20 Dr10XInvestor no software no party
Not enough tents, obviously.
fly4dat WPipperger EuroEVReport EconomicManBlog zeroshorts zerohedge garyblack00 stevenmarkryan pakpakchicken GerberKawasaki Andreas_Hopf No software no party .
You buried the lede,
instead of say i want you should be saying WE want
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fulviocortesi fulviocortesi evidentemente se Tesla è a 846$ un motivo c’è...
VW used to be great; now dreadfully bad & most often broken at the shop!
Like diesel emissions
They had to cheat diesel emissions...so...
😂🤣🤣🤣 you can’t beat Tesla!
'The Germans have finally come and they're not as good as Tesla'. Says it all really, doesn't it?
Volkswagen são corruptos e poluidores...
Its not easy being green.
Arizona law enforcement, DEA and FBI, wanted all anti-narcotics and fugitive hunt 'boodoggle' focused on retired Phoenix, AZ Police criminal nests here in Puerto Vallarta, this in name their Good Law Enforcement program.
Maybe they could just create some sort of internal device that makes the car only appear to be working properly...you know, like before?
All kinds of stuff, I don't know why I can't. Don't you beeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrreeeeeereeeeeeeerrerrerrrrrrrrrrrop
Hey VW - maybe it's just Karma coming at you with retribution for plotting to deceive emissions testing equipment? If you had spent that time, money & energy researching & testing EV instead of conspiring on criminal acts, you might have done better.
They couldn't get the electrical system right in my 1980s VW Rabbit...and crappy electric is probably what caused the Panzers to fail in WWII.
The need more and more concentration not old experience.
Whoever wrote this article clearly hasn’t looked at the recent VW vs Tesla numbers
Electric cars industry is a tricky one and blunders can be made. I believe VW will have a turnaround soon and beat the odds. Give them time.
they know how to program the emissions for diesel
95% only bad news(
Just a little underestimate 😂
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