Tag: Volkswagen
Electric Cars, Dirty Origins: Volkswagen’s Supply Chain Tied to African Conflict Minerals
As Volkswagen accelerates toward a greener, electric future, a growing body of evidence reveals a darker reality behind the company’s clean-energy ambitions. A new investigation ... Read More
Volkswagen Group Africa delivers strong export growth in 2024, eyes expansion plans in 2025
Volkswagen Group Africa (VWGA) is celebrating a significant achievement in 2024, setting a new export record with 131,485 vehicles shipped, marking a 21% increase over ... Read More
Volkswagen inks MoU with Ethiopian Government
After Kenya and Rwanda, the German car giant Volkswagen continues its expansion plan in East Africa. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on Monday ... Read More
The Fiasco of Algeria’s Car Industry
“Disguised imports”. It is thus that critics have described Algeria’s policy to set up car assembly plants. Since 2012, Algeria has been trying to attract ... Read More
Algeria: Volkswagen to launch car production plant in 2017
German car producer Volkswagen Thursday indicated that it will start a car producing plant in 2017 with an annual output estimated at 100,000 cars, reports ... Read More
Volkswagen Reportedly Chooses Morocco not Algiers
It seems that Morocco has won another battle against its neighbouring arch-rival Algeria, member of the OPEC cartel. After months of secret negotiations with the ... Read More