Volkswagen knows that it cannot rely on battery suppliers. With electric cars, producing them will be a crucial competency that automakers will have to master, even if through partnerships at first.

At their recent annual media conference, Volkswagen Group officials unveiled a new battery configuration—not a new battery, ...

Volkswagen hasn’t been faring well in the world’s largest car market, but a new partnership could be the key to turning it all around. 2024 was not a good year for Volkswagen by any metric, largely ...

Volkswagen Group’s EV expansion in China will be supported by a new components plant in Hefei, Anhui province. The new production facility will deliver over 150,000 battery systems a year for ...

Czech subsidiary of Volkswagen Group, has inaugurated a new battery system assembly hall at its main plant in Mladá Boleslav. With the expansion, ...

Volkswagen plans to license solid-state battery tech QuantumScape, the battery supplier, will use VW as a key investor The deal gives VW enough batteries to possibly make approximately one million EVs ...

BERLIN -- Volkswagen Group plans to invest in mines to bring down the cost of battery cells, meet half of its own demand and sell to third-party customers, Thomas Schmall, the automaker's technology ...

MIT spinout and battery maker 24M Technologies today debuted a new direct-material battery recycling process for EV batteries and battery storage. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based 24M Technologies, ...

Mercedes-Benz Group and Volkswagen Group on Tuesday signed deals with the Canadian government to secure access to Canada’s large stores of key battery materials such as lithium, cobalt, nickel and ...

In brief: Automakers are racing to commercialize a new wave of battery technology to help usher in the era of electric vehicles. Volkswagen's battery startup, PowerCo SE, recently subjected a ...

Volkswagen Group announced that it will consolidate its battery-related activities into a new European company that will cover the entire value chain: from processing raw materials to developing a ...