Reuters reports that Volkswagen has considered forming a partnership with Didi Chuxing in China. The joint venture would allow VW to manage aspects of Didi’s ride-hailing fleet of cars and to help develop its ‘purpose built’ vehicles. Included as part of the agreement, VW will originally manage a fleet, for Didi, of around 100,000 vehicles. [...]

ZEFER (Zero Emission Fleet vehicles for European Roll-out) will deploy large fleets of 60 hydrogen fuelled vehicles in each of three European capitals (Paris, London and Brussels). These vehicles will be used in the applications where hydrogen fuelled vehicles are the most valuable – fleets which drive long distances every day, which need rapid refuelling, [...]

According to Reuters, Volkswagen AG’s Czech division Skoda will shift some production of SUVs to Germany to meet increased demands for its models. VW has been looking for ways to grow output at Skoda. This includes building new infrastructures outside of Czech to help with increased demands. Skoda told Reuters that it will allocate production [...]

Axalta Coating Systems is exhibiting its range of Impregnating Resins at the Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Technology Expo (EHVTE) Europe in Hanover, Germany, from 15 to 17 May 2018. Axalta has been an international manufacturer of high-performance liquid insulating systems and materials for over 70 years and it supplies its Energy Solutions range of Impregnating [...]