Another day, another data breach to report from another company whose customers have been put at risk. This time the company is the automaker Volkswagen, which has been sending out an official data breach notice to customers in recent days that blames the incident on a vendor (used by Volkswagen, Audi, and authorized car dealers) …
Well, it took three years but it looks like the repercussions of Volkswagen’s diesel emissions cheating is finally reaching the very top of the company’s ladders. Rupert Stadler, CEO of VW’s luxury brand Audi, has been arrested in Germany as part of the still-ongoing investigation into who was truly accountable for the decision to install …
Rumors a few years back kept telling us that Apple is making its own car, a vehicle supposed to do to the auto industry what the iPhone did to mobile. We then gradually learned that Apple isn’t so much interested in manufacturing its own car, a laborious and resource-intensive process even for a company that’s …
You’ve really got to hand it to Volkswagen. After an embarrassing couple of years as the auto industry’s punching bag following the absolutely shameful “Dieselgate” scandal, VW has been doing everything in its power to look forward rather than back. To that end it’s introduced a seemingly endless number of futuristic concept cars which ditch …
Volkswagen, fresh off of its incredibly embarrassing dieselgate controversy, would like to do everything possible to make you forget that it tried to cheat emissions regulations and sent literally millions of vehicles out into the world that were incredibly dirty. To that end, the company is pushing its electric vehicle efforts hard as of late, …
It’s been nearly two years since news of Volkswagen’s diesel emissions cheating first broke, and the months since have been filled with recalls, buybacks, and lots and lots of money flying out of the company’s bank account and into the pockets of affected customers. But despite the company’s swift and appropriate response to being caught …
Volkswagen’s buyback of its emissions-cheating diesel vehicles is still ongoing, and while the whole incident has largely disappeared from the headlines, the process of actually dealing with all those polluting cars is still a very real problem for the company. It’s easy to imagine the cars ending up in a big warehouse, being parted out …
Self-driving car concepts are a dime a dozen these days, coming from every corner of the automotive industry and manufacturer. Volkswagen has shown off a couple of its own in the past, but at the Geneva Motor Show this week the company is giving us a glimpse at yet another, and it’s a bit different …
Last month, a trend began to develop among VW owners involved in the “Dieselgate” buyback program. Rather than simply returning the vehicles for the lump sum payment they were due, some of the more disgruntled former VW customers decided to strip their vehicles of many of their resellable bits in an effort to make some extra …
Even after agreeing to shell out a massive $14.7 billion settlement in California and initiating the recall and buyback program for its emissions-cheating vehicles, Volkswagen knew that its days in court weren’t quite over with. Today, the company finally faced the music in its lawsuit brought on by the US Justice Department and pled guilty …
