Sunday 25th August 2019 Ferdinand Karl Piech (82), Volkswagen AG’s former chairman and chief executive, died. He had transformed the German company from a struggling midsized carmaker into a global automotive powerhouse.

Friday 7th June 2019 US media reported that more than a dozen car manufacturers, including Ford, General Motors, Toyota, Honda and Volkswagen had officially asked Pres. Donald Trump not to relax emission limits, to avoid a fragmentation of the car market.

Sunday 23rd September 2018 Sports car maker Porsche said it would become the first German auto giant to abandon the diesel engine, reacting to parent company Volkswagen’s emissions cheating scandal and urban driving bans.

Thursday 13th September 2018 Volkswagen announced it would end production of its iconic “Beetle” cars in 2019 after adding a pair of final editions of the bug-shaped vehicles.

Wednesday 27th June 2018 The first Rwandan-made Volkswagen car rolled off the assembly line on at the country’s first auto factory in Kigali. The cars are mostly for export to other African nations and were unaffordable to the average Rwandan.

Thursday 21st September 2017 Greenpeace activists boarded a ship arriving in Britain to stop the delivery of more than 1,000 Volkswagen cars from Germany while others sought to immobilize vehicles at a port in anti-diesel protests.

Thursday 30th March 2017 Volkswagen AG said it has agreed to pay $157.45 million to settle environmental claims from 10 US states over its excess diesel emissions, as the world’s largest automaker looks to move past the scandal.

Wednesday 28th September 2016 German carmaker Volkswagen said it has stopped buying mica from some suppliers in India, following a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation that found child workers were dying in illegal, unregulated mines. At least seven children were killed since June mining for mica in the states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh.…