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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

From left to right: Thomas Schmall, Group Board Member for Technology at Volkswagen AG and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PowerCo SE, Jörg Teichmann, PowerCo Chief Procurement Officer, Ralph ...

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 ...