VW boss Herbert Diess does not stop at the e-offensive in front of its own company car fleet. The coveted privilege causes a lot of resentment among managers.
- Volkswagen is in the middle of converting to e-mobility.
- But the e-offensive has so far bypassed VW's own company car pool .
- Group boss Herbert Diess is now making his own managers responsible.
Munich - Volkswagen * wants to convert the company car fleet of its core brand VW to an electric drive. The company boss Herbert Diess announced on the career portal LinkedIn. Employees are likely to expect managers to lead by “setting a good example”. For this to happen, “behavior with traditional privileges must also change”.
According to the plans, around a third of all VW company cars should be powered by a hybrid or purely electric by the end of the year , a VW spokesman told Merkur.de *. At VW , around 15,000 vehicles are registered as company cars each year.
VW boss Herbert Diess is now also making managers responsible for his e-car offensive.
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Similar to many other car manufacturers, VW employees from a certain hierarchy level are allowed to order company cars. At VW , this applies to employees from the tariff plus level , i.e. employees from team leader upwards or employees with comparable responsibility.
According to the regulation that will apply from September 1, the emissions of the other company cars with conventional drives are to be offset by a corresponding tax . All drivers of a combustion engine or a hybrid should pay 15 euros a month into a corresponding pot.
VW: Those entitled to company cars who do not drive a real Stromer will have to pay extra in future
According to VW, the money should flow into appropriate climate protection programs such as reforestation projects. VW's company car fleet will be CO2-neutral in the future , said a VW spokesman. According to Diess, the CO2 emissions of the VW company car fleet were most recently 137 grams per kilometer, “well above the average of the vehicles sold. That doesn't work! ", Diess wrote apodictically. With the change, the corresponding value will drop to 97 grams by the end of the year, the VW boss promised.
VW: Intervention in the company car privilege causes displeasure among managers
The intervention in the coveted company car privilege of the VW management level was controversial internally. While many competitors had already set CO2 targets for their company cars, that was a difficult birth at VW, Diess freely admitted.
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The VW boss is driving the conversion of the group towards electric drives with power. With the market launch of the ID.3 at the beginning of September, the group wants to set an important milestone on the way to electric mobility.
VW boss: vacation trip in ID.3 causes a furore on the net
Most recently, Diess caused a sensation on the web with a vacation trip in the fully electric ID.3. With the trip from Munich to Lake Garda, he wanted to prove that you can already go on vacation with pure electric vehicles, Diess had announced before the trip with his daughter Caro.
Apart from small suggestions for improvement to his engineers, his conclusion on the trip to Italy in the company's own Stromer was correspondingly positive. Diess advertised that e-mobility would “finally be suitable for the masses” . And the ID.3 has shown why the vehicle is "the start of a new era".
On the other hand, observers see the situation in a somewhat more differentiated manner. Just a few days ago, for example, the VW subsidiary Porsche * had to call its super e-sports car, the Taycan, back to the workshop for a software update. That had caused a lot of ridicule on the internet. The start of production of the ID.3 was also overshadowed by massive software problems.
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