Volkswagen Truck and Bus Reveals its Future Transport Vision

VW's Andreas Renschler is flanked by Navistar CEO Troy Clarke (l) and Navistar CFO Walter Borst (r) while talking about the launch of the VW-Navistar strategic alliance a year ago at the IAA truck show in Hannover, Germany Photo: David Cullen

Germany's Volkswagen Truck and Bus Group laid out its long-term plans for shaping the future of transportation this week at its Innovation Day Summit, held in Hamburg, Germany.

Andreas Renschler, member of the board of management for Volkswagen AG and chief executive officer of Volkswagen Truck and Bus GmbH, made extensive opening remarks at the conference, laying out VW's vision for what it identifies as the three key areas crucial for the future of trucking, logistics and transporation: autonomous vehicles, connected vehicles, and clean transportation.

Renschler began by noting that Volkswagen Truck and Bus began as a startup just two years ago, with a goal of creating a climate of cooperation among VW's various brands competing in various transportation and logistics markets, including MAN, Scania, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Volkswagen Brazil, and Rio.

According to Renschler, the effort by VW to coordinate the technological development paths of these brands occurred at “just the right time to shape the future of transportation as a group.”

He added that the company's research and development group, based in Sweden, was now coordinating and moderating each brand's technological development efforts to coordinate and synchronize those projects across brands, companies, and countries with notable success.

“We all know that logistics and transportation is changing massively,” Renschler added. “We must consider the needs of our customers – and their customers – as well as environmental issues, technology and infrastructure and the competitive landscape if we are to shape these changes. This challenges us to rethink our business and pursue the fast development of information technology and data processing, which offer us completely new ...Read the rest of this story

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