Automakers

VW CEO Diess warns employees: We don't want to end up like Nokia

VW CEO Diess: "Are we becoming the providers of kind of a shell, a body style which then is equipped with a computer from a third party that is running the cars, or are we able to convert this exciting, precious device into a real internet device?" (Bloomberg)
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Bloomberg
November 06, 2020 12:54 PM

Volkswagen Group is at a critical juncture. It has weathered the pandemic relatively well but is worried about new lockdowns in Europe to counter surging coronavirus infections. The automaker has full-electric cars under its ID badge rolling out but is well behind Tesla. And it has massive manufacturing scale but desperately needs to rethink its vehicles as rolling software devices.

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