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The Volkswagen Electronics Research Laboratory was founded in August 1998, and VWERL began operations in October 1998, with three employees. As of December 2002, the lab had outgrown its Sunnyvale, California office and moved to Palo Alto.
The old plant built the VW Polo from 1990-1991 in a joint venture between VW & VEB called Volkswagen IFA-PKW GmbH. VW also built a new plant in Zwickau-Mosel which launched production with the Golf on February 15, 1991. Now home to the Audi AG-owned August Horch Museum.
VWoA is responsible for six marques: Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini, and Volkswagen, and in addition is the exclusive importer and distributor of Bugatti and Rimac cars in the U.S. [3] [4] It also controls VW Credit, Inc. (operating as Volkswagen Financial Services), [5] Volkswagen's financial services and credit operations. [6]
The German automotive concern, Volkswagen Group has, since the 1970s, developed a series of shared automobile platforms for their motor vehicles. [1] [2]Originally, these were identified using a simple alphanumeric system.
On 6 February 2024, the UAW announced that over 50% of the 4,100 hourly workers at the plant have signed union membership cards. [37] The VW union drive is happening shortly after UAW's successful strikes in 2023 at the "Big Three" automobile manufacturers Ford, General Motors and Stellantis. [38] On 19 April, the plant's workers voted to unionize.
VW subsequently purchased an American Motors stamping plant in South Charleston, West Virginia, investing further to make the factory capable of producing exterior sheet metal stampings for Westmoreland [1] and then purchased a small plant in Fort Worth, Texas for manufacture of the air-conditioning and heating systems and plastic-trim to ...
The ID. series is the first series of cars from VW, purpose-built as electric vehicles. [2] Most of its production vehicles were adapted from several concept car models. [ 3 ] According to Volkswagen, ID. stands for "intelligent design, identity and visionary technologies".
Aerial view of the Wolfsburg Volkswagen Plant. The Wolfsburg Volkswagen Plant is the worldwide headquarters of the Volkswagen Group. [1] Situated in Wolfsburg, Germany, it is one of the largest manufacturing plants in the world, with an area of just under 6.5 million m 2 (70 million sq ft) and a building area of 1.6 million m 2 (17 million sq ft). [2]