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VW Warns: Semiconductor Shortage Threatens its EV Production Worldwide

December 21, 2020

BERLIN–Volkswagen has started building its ID.3 electric vehicle, but is bracing for a major production disruption from a shortage of semiconductors.


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Volkswagen Constructs Assembly Plant in Tennessee

November 27, 2019

CHATTANOOGA, TN—Volkswagen of America has started construction on its $800 million electric vehicle production facility here that will include battery pack assembly.


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Volkswagen Begins Manufacturing ID.3 Electric Car

November 6, 2019
GERMANY— Volkswagen Group started manufacturing its ID.3 electric car this month. This is the company’s first electric car based on its Modular Electric Drive Toolkit or MEB platform.
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VW Workers in TN Reject Second Union Organizing Bid

June 18, 2019

CHATTANOOGA, TN—For the second time in five years, a slim majority of hourly workers at Volkswagen's 8-year-old assembly plant here has rejected a bid to unionize with the UAW. Voting from June 13 to June 15 showed that 51.8 percent of workers cast ballots against the union.


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Report: VW Prepares for Mass Production of Lower-Cost EV

November 13, 2018

FRANKFURT—Volkswagen is reportedly planning to sell an entry-level electric vehicle for less than 20,000 euros, or approximately $23,000. At a board meeting scheduled for November 16, executives will gather to discuss the automaker's plans to manufacture its I.D.-branded electric vehicles in place of its internal combustion offerings.


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Porsche is First German Carmaker to Abandon Diesel Engines

September 25, 2018

STUTTGART, Germany—Sports car maker Porsche said Sunday it would become the first German auto giant to abandon the diesel engine, reacting to parent company Volkswagen's emissions cheating scandal and urban driving bans.


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Volkswagen Ending Production of VW Beetle (Again)

March 13, 2018

BERLIN--Volkswagen is about to end production of the Beetle—better known to many drivers as "the Bug." VW initially ended production in 2003, but brought the car back in 2011. Volkswagen officials say production won’t be restarted anytime soon.


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Volkswagen Rethinks What It Means to Be Green

Nature doesn’t take a back seat to production in Chattanooga.
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Austin Weber
August 8, 2013

"Watch where you step so you avoid the poisonous snakes!” is not something that’s typically heard when touring an automotive assembly plant. But, Volkswagen AG’s two-year-old Chattanooga, TN, facility is out of the ordinary when it comes to being environmentally friendly.


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VW Opens U.S. Research Center

August 22, 2012

OXNARD, CA—Volkswagen has opened a new $27 million product development and emissions test laboratory here.


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VW Plant’s Hail Net Gets Early Test

March 7, 2012

CHATTANOOGA, TN—A new hail net under construction at Volkswagen’s assembly plant here got an early test Friday when golf ball-sized hail pounded the facilty. The hail net is approximately 40 percent complete and protected some of the vehicles.


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