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VW's EV push gets Merkel's backing as she faces climate critique

Merkel is pictured with VW executives at a ceremony to mark the start of ID3 production in Zwickau, Germany. (Reuters)
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Christoph Rauwald
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Bloomberg
November 04, 2019 03:28 PM

FRANKFURT -- Angela Merkel's visit to a revamped Volkswagen Group electric-car plant in Zwickau on Monday is a stark reminder of what is at stake both for the German chancellor and VW CEO Herbert Diess.

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