VW boss Diess orders executives to switch to electric cars and causes Zoff: "Difficult birth"

VW boss Herbert Diess does not stop at the e-offensive in front of its own company car fleet.

The changes are causing a lot of resentment among executives.

• 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 -

* wants to convert the company car fleet of its core brand

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

cars should be powered by a hybrid or purely electric

by the end of the year

, a VW spokesman told Merkur.de *.

At

, 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.

© dpa / Silas Stein

Similar to many other car manufacturers,

employees from a certain hierarchy level are allowed to order company cars.

At

, this applies to employees from the

, 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

.

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

money should

flow into appropriate climate protection programs such as reforestation projects.

company car fleet

will be

future

, said a

spokesman.

According to Diess, the CO2 emissions of the

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 executives

The intervention in the coveted company car privilege of the

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.

⚡️ Volkswagen's electric offensive continues to gather speed: Series production of our # VWID4 begins in Zwickau!

[ID.4: The vehicle is not yet available for sale in Europe.] Https://t.co/1JJfIgtL42

- Volkswagen News (@volkswagen) August 20, 2020

The

boss is driving the conversion of the group towards electric drives * with power.

With the market launch of the

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,

caused a sensation on the web with a vacation trip in the fully electric ID.3.

With the trip from

to

,

before the trip with his daughter Caro that

he wanted to prove that it was already possible to go on vacation with pure electric vehicles

.

Apart from small suggestions for improvement to his engineers, his conclusion on the

trip

to

in the company's own Stromer was correspondingly positive.

advertised that e-mobility would “finally be suitable for the masses”

.

And the

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

subsidiary

* had to

call

its super e-sports

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.

List of rubric lists: © dpa / Silas Stein