With annual sales of around 223 billion euros, Volkswagen is the world's largest car company, ahead of Toyota.
A power that builds on the internal combustion engine.
In order for Volkswagen to remain the largest car manufacturer in the world in the electric age, CEO
Herbert Diess
(62) has set enormous levers in motion over the past few months.
And on the surface it doesn't look too bad: With the ID.3 and the ID.4, there are two models on the market that seem to have what it takes to become an electric car for the masses.
Nevertheless, CEO Diess recently advised executives and parts of the supervisory board:
In Germany, 30,000 jobs should actually be lost, that would be a quarter of all jobs in Germany.
And the corporate headquarters in Wolfsburg, especially the factories there, are too sluggish and from yesterday.
Both of these triggered outraged reactions, especially among the workforce.
At the same time, Diess raves about the electric attacker Tesla and his boss
Elon Musk
(50).
What is really behind the attacks by the VW boss?
And is his alarmism justified?
In this podcast, Michael Freitag, the editorial team's auto expert, and editor-in-chief Martin Noé provide information on what the future prospects of Volkswagen are really like.
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