IIn two days, Oliver Blume takes over the management of Volkswagen. That’s quite a task. And it is of a special dimension because the circumstances could hardly be worse. War in Ukraine, fearful views of China, escalating inflation, concerns about a recession in Europe, unrelenting energy and commodity prices, unstable supply chains, a lack of chips, strangling regulations – and a great deal of uncertainty in our own ranks. During the years of his predecessor Herbert Diess, who has now been dismissed, the group committed itself to electromobility in a feat of strength, but forgot other things. Building good Volkswagens, for example.
Volkswagen, that’s 670,000 employees, more than 100 factories around the world, 10 vehicle brands, 250 billion euros in sales, 9 to 10 million new cars a year. It’s a never-ending competition with Japanese giant Toyota to build more cars. But that’s not the point now.
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