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ALL ABOUT VOLKSWAGEN THE EMPLOYEE MAGAZINE FOR OUR LOCATION SEPTEMBER 2020 360WOLFSBURG° Corona: Testing Directly in the Plants The war against Corona continues: Volkswagen wants to be on the front foot when it comes to recog- nizing cases and putting a stop to chains of infection. This is why the company is setting up its own test- ing facilities at its German locations. Test results will be provided by a Employees from the Wolfsburg plant new center at Wolfsburg hospital. with members of the Golf family: (from left to right) Lars Brandt, → PAGE 2 Katja Utermöhlen, Michael Fromme, and Rebecca Schrader. The Entire Golf Family Is Now Based in Wolfsburg US Monitor Praises Even the Variant is now produced at this location – Plant Manager praises employees Volkswagen Independent compliance monitor he new Golf Variant can move is that every generation of plant is now focusing primarily on entire Golf family under one roof: Larry D. Thompson has now fin- now also call the Wolfsburg the bestseller has rolled o the the new Volkswagen ID. family in- “The Golf is – and always will ished his investigations. He reports, Tplant home, as this location production line in Wolfsburg – cluding the ID.3 and ID.4, and from be – an icon. And luckily for us, we “ Volkswagen is a better company is responsible for all derivatives ever since the rst Golf around 46 next year it will also be looking at don’t just have the one Golf, but a today than it was three years ago.” of the new Golf. In addition to the years ago. Even the Variant is no electric vehicles for two other Group whole series of impressive deriva- → PAGE 5 basic models, this also includes stranger at the largest Volkswagen brands: Audi and Seat. tives, too.” the Golf GTE³ with plug-in hy- site, as the Wolfsburg employees The plant manager has extended brid, which essentially combines a actually spent 13 years producing “The Golf is – and always will be his thanks to all Wolfsburg-based Software Org: combustion engine and a battery, it here from 1993 to 2006. – an icon” employees, who have been working the Golf GTI⁴, the Golf R-Line, the The seventh generation of the especially hard over recent weeks How It Works Golf Alltrack£, and several more Golf Variant was still being made in Wolfsburg Plant Manager Stefan and months hard to ensure every- besides. The great thing about this Zwickau until June of this year. That Loth is proud to now have the thing runs smoothly. Chief Human Resources Officer Gunnar Kilian and Martin Hofmann, Head of HR for the new Group company, discuss E-Offensive Gains Momentum personnel planning in a 360° interview. Customers receive first ID.3¹ and series production of the ID.4² starts at the Zwickau plant → PAGE 3 he Volkswagen e-of- the world’s largest growth our ID. family,” fensive is running segment – the compact Brandstätter Olympic Dream T full steam ahead: The SUV class,” explains Ralf adds. brand has now delivered its Brandstätter, CEO of the Lives On rst ID.3 models to cus- Volkswagen brand. “After 300,000 cars tomers at the Autostadt in the ID.3, it’s already the from Zwickau Two top athletes at Volkswagen: Wolfsburg, the Transparent second model based on Canoeist Sabrina Hering-Pradler and Factory in Dresden, and in the modular electric-drive The Zwickau plant Judoka Giovanna Scoccimarro talk the retail sector. toolkit (MEB).” Going is playing a key about their temporarily shattered What’s more, series forward, the ID.4 will be role in the system Herbert Diess: Olympic dreams. production of the sec- Ralf Brandstätter, built and sold in Europe, change towards Group CEO road-tested ond member of the ID. Volkswagen Brand China, and later also in e-mobility: For the the ID.3 on vacation. family is also now under- CEO the US. “This is how we’ll rst time, a large way in Zwickau. “With the ID.4, scale the MEB platform around car factory is being Volkswagen is expanding its range the world, creating the econom- completely converted to electric vacation to road-test the ID.3 on a to include a fully electric vehicle in ic foundation for the success of mobility. All conversions will be trip from Munich to Lake Garda in completed this year Italy. He shared his experiences on according to sched- social media, which have proven And here it is: the ID.4. ule. In the 2021 incredibly popular worldwide. production year, Silke Bagschik, Sales Manager for roughly 300,000 the e-mobility series, shares her electric cars based views on the ID.3 in retail in our Sustainability: on the modular 360° interview. She explains, “The electric-drive tool- vehicles are now available to view Advisory Board kit (MEB) will come and test drive at dealers. We expect o the assembly line that this will give a new boost to Remains in Zwickau. orders.” The Sustainability Advisory Board Together with And how do you charge an elec- and the Volkswagen Group have his daughter, tric vehicle? One of our 360° editors extended their cooperation for Volkswagen Group tried it out and shared his experi- another two years. At the heart of CEO Herbert Diess ences in the Volkswagen Passenger the sustainability strategy lies the took advantage Cars brand section. company’s reported carbon neutral- of his summer → PAGES 7–9 ity by 2050. → PAGE 11 kp-wo ¹ ID.3 Pro Performance, 150 kW/energy consumption combined in kWh/100 km: 16.9–15.4 (WLTP); 15.4–14.5 (NEDC); CO₂ emissions combined in g/km: 0; ID.3 Pro S, 150 kW/energy consumption combined in kWh/100 km: 17.7–15.9 (WLTP); 14.1–13.5 (NEDC); CO₂ emissions combined in g/km: 0 | ² ID.4: The vehicle is a near-production-ready Golf concept | ³ Golf GTE – (NEDC) fuel consumption in l/100 km: combined 1.7; power consumption in kW/h/100 km: combined 12.4; CO₂ emissions combined in g/km: 38; efficiency class: A+ | ⁴ GTI (180 kW / 245 bhp, with 7-speed DSG) – (NEDC) fuel consumption in l/100 km: urban 8.6, highway 5.3, combined 6.5; CO₂ emissions in g/km (combined): 149; efficiency class: C | Golf Alltrack – This vehicle is a near-production-ready concept car and is not yet on sale. GROUP 360° September 2020 Names & News VOLKSWAGEN BRAND War Against Klaus Zellmer, former CEO at Porsche Cars North America, has Corona: been a Chief Sales, Marketing, and After Sales Officer for the Volkswagen Volkswagen brand since mid-September. He’s succeeding Jürgen Stackmann, who is now Leads by Example leaving Volkswagen. Zellmer was with Porsche for 23 years before making The company is setting up its own test this move, prior to which he was at containers across many of its sites the Nürtingen Institute for Automotive Economics where he began his career olkswagen and the city of jointly developed process in in 1994. He moved to Porsche in Wolfsburg are on the same place to prevent the spread 1999 and held various posts here Vpage when it comes to han- of the virus, which involves Open wide! A healthcare worker takes a swab. including Head of Sales and Marketing dling COVID-19: They both want to identifying all those who at Porsche Leipzig, Head of Marketing, act fast to detect cases, interrupt have come into contact and later Chair of the Management chains of infection, and prevent with infected individuals,” explains still lie ahead. “Coughs-and-colds infection both at work and at home. Board at Porsche Germany. In 2015, the potential closure of company Dr. Daniela Kirstein, Senior Company season is right around the corner, Chains of infection should not be Zellmer moved to Atlanta as CEO of departments or public institutions. Physician in Braunschweig and which means – just like every allowed to arise in the rst place,” Porsche Cars North America. This is exactly why Volkswagen is Project Manager for Corona Testing year – many people are going to be asserts City Councilor Monika Jürgen Stackmann setting up its own testing contain- at Volkswagen. The measures in place suering from coughs, snies, or Müller. worked for the Group ers at its German locations. Test have proven success- sore throats. This is With this in mind, the city has for ten years. His results will be provided within ful in all cases to date. going to make it even boosted its capacities to make it career began at Ford 24 hours at most by a new center These quick- harder to distinguish possible to track chains of infec- in 1989, where he held at Wolfsburg hospital. In several re processes have a common cold from tion. “We have trained around the positions of Manag- cases, this has allowed coronavirus ben particularly a suspected case 50 employees on the track-and- ing Director and General Director for infections to be detected at an early advantageous at of corona,” notes trace system, but we could easily Sales and Marketing before making stage and, most importantly all, the Wolfsburg and Kirstein. An early u increase this number if the situ- the move to Volkswagen. In 2010 he prevented from spreading. Braunschweig sites, as vaccination is strong- ation requires,” explains Müller. became Chief Sales and Marketing These walk-through containers “we nd out the result ly recommended this Volkswagen has an excellent Officer at Skoda, before taking over as have already within a few hours of year (see extra article system in place to manage points of Head of Group and Brand Marketing been installed at the swab in an ideal on this page) to try to contact and thereby identify chains two years later.