After Volvo launched its Android-based infotainment system that it co-developed with Google, tech chief Henrik Green wanted answers to two questions.

Volvo's policy will give employees with at least one year of service a total of 24 weeks of leave at 80 percent of their base pay. In the U.S., Volvo employees were previously offered six weeks of parental leave at 100 percent of their salary.

The Shanghai show will be very different because travel restrictions will make it impossible for most executives from places such as Detroit, Wolfsburg and Munich to attend.

VW Group has hatched an ambitious road map to hike global battery output at the same time its China unit declared a goal to sell 1.5 million electrified vehicles annually by 2025.