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VOLKSWAGEN GROUP COMPONENTS

Wolfsburg Germany
Founded in 2019
80.000 Employees

A realignment of the Group-wide components business was decided on as part of the enhanced Group strategy TOGETHER 2025+ and implemented as of January 1, 2019. The aim is further improvement of future viability and competitiveness through cross-brand management of component activities and a value creation strategy coordinated throughout the Group. Synergies will be leveraged across both traditional technologies and topics of the future to advance the progressive transition to e-mobility. The components business manages some 75 thousand people worldwide. The focus of their expertise is the development and manufacture of vehicle components. In order to realign these competencies in a future-oriented way, it was decided as part of the Group strategy to combine components activities around the world into an independent entity, Volkswagen Group Components, under the umbrella of Volkswagen AG. The entity has been re-organized into new business areas: Engine and Foundry, Transmissions and Electric Drive Systems, Chassis, Seats and Battery Cells. In each of the business areas, innovative power and competitiveness will be increased through an economical product portfolio that is viable for the future with a continuously optimized product range and economies of scale exploited across all business areas. Group Components in the Volkswagen Group will be responsible for the development and production of battery systems and electric drives for new electric vehicles as well as for the development and pilot production of battery cells and the management of production partners. There are also plans to reuse the battery cells in innovative reutilization concepts such as the flexible fast charging station and then recycle them in a climate-friendly manner. Moreover, further strategic initiatives will be implemented in Group Components’ central strategy program “ONE MISSION 2025”. Using innovative digitalization strategies such as robot-controlled process optimization, the transition process to new topics of future relevance will be accelerated.

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Since January 1, 2019, Volkswagen Group Components has been an independent business unit under the umbrella of Volkswagen AG. With 80,000 employees in 61 plants at 47 locations, the unit has been one of the world’s largest suppliers in the automotive industry from the start.

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Thomas Schmall, board member responsible for Volkswagen Group Components in an interview for “In a word.”

Volkswagen Group Components’ flexible quick charging station

Volkswagen Group Components’ flexible quick charging station is the first power bank for electric cars. Thanks to its numerous applications, it enables a charging infrastructure to be established within a shorter space of time – a structure which is, above all, flexible. Series production of the new flexible charging stations at the component plant in Hannover will begin in 2020.

Further information on the flexible quick charging station

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