Cudjoe has completed her undergraduate studies at the Northeastern State University (NSU) in the United States. The 24-year-old wants to take the next step in her playing career after signing for Asheville. The fomer Hasaacas Ladies midfielder has previously played for WPSL side, California Storm. She received honours in 2015 when she was named to … Read more
German carmakers Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, BMW and Daimler secretly worked together from the 1990s onward on issues including polluting emissions from diesel vehicles, according to a report published on Friday. Volkswagen, facing tens of billions of dollars in compensation and fines after admitting to manipulating diesel emissions in 2015, reported the cartel to German competition … Read more
US officials announced charges against a former manager with Audi — a high-end brand in the Volkswagen group — who directed employees to design software to cheat US emission tests. Giovanni Pamio, 60, an Italian citizen, is charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, wire fraud, and violation of the Clean Air Act, the … Read more
German car giant Volkswagen said Tuesday it was returning to the Iranian market for the first time in 17 years due to the lifting of economic sanctions. The company, maker of brands including VW, Porsche, Skoda and Seat, said it would resume selling cars in Iran from August after signing a deal with local importer … Read more
Visiting German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel urged China Wednesday to improve market access for European Union firms seeking to invest there. He was speaking after talks with his counterpart Wang Yi, a week before an EU-China summit in Brussels. The EU has repeatedly pressed for better access to the China market. “China and the European … Read more
A federal judge in California on Thursday said he would approve a $1.2 billion settlement between Volkswagen and the US authorities over the last 80,000 cars in the company’s emissions-cheating scandal. The development brought the scandal-plagued German auto giant a step nearer to closing the book on the ‘dieselgate’ affair, which rocked the company for … Read more
A US judge on Friday sentenced Volkswagen to pay a $2.8 billion criminal penalty in the diesel emissions cheating scandal, in line with a deal struck between the automaker and the US government. The district court judge in Detroit also placed the German auto maker on three years of probation, settling the US criminal case … Read more
Unable to afford a car, Shanghai university student Long Yi faces a lengthy, expensive commute across his vast city but has found a solution in the car-sharing schemes quickly gaining momentum in China. Essentially an Internet Age twist on car rentals, car-sharing is growing rapidly from virtually nothing two years ago as Chinese millennials seek … Read more
Listen to the lyrics of Tinny – Bugatti ft Zeal (Prod By B2)and download the mp3 track for the newly released track titled: Tinny – Bugatti ft Zeal (Prod By B2). Bardman family bring to us this brand new jam from Tinny dubbed Bugatti which features Zeal of VVIP. production credit goes to B2. stream … Read more
German automakers Mercedes Benz and Volkswagen will recall nearly one million vehicles in China, according to the country’s quality regulator. Mercedes Benz will recall nearly 400,000 vehicles of different models produced between May 2015 and February 2017 due to concerns that parts of the ignition circuitry could overheat under some extreme conditions, according to a … Read more
German prosecutors have raided Audi sites as part of an investigation into the manipulation of US emissions tests. Dozens of officers searched the Audi factory in Ingolstadt in Bavaria, as well as eight other locations. The searches were carried out in order to identify those involved in installing the devices that cheated the diesel tests, … Read more
German prosecutors searched Audi’s two biggest plants and several other sites on Wednesday in connection with an emissions cheating scandal, adding to pressure on Volkswagen’s (VOWG_p. DE) luxury division and its Chief Executive Rupert Stadler. Audi’s supervisory board last month expressed its support for Stadler, who has run the division since 2007, despite criticism of … Read more
It has been a year and a half since the diesel emissions scandal at the German carmaker Volkswagen first came to light. Since then, the company has agreed to pay substantial compensation to people in the US who bought cars equipped with illegal software, capable of disguising their true emissions levels. But Volkswagen has not … Read more
Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p. DE) pleaded guilty on Friday to fraud, obstruction of justice and falsifying statements as part of a $4.3 billion settlement reached with the U.S. Justice Department in January over the automaker’s diesel emissions scandal. It was the first time the company has pleaded guilty to criminal conduct in any court in the … Read more
German automaker Volkswagen AG on Friday pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the emissions-cheating scandal, closing an important chapter in the saga that has rocked the company sice 2015. The company in January agreed to plead guilty and pay $4.3 billion in criminal and civil fines to settle charges that it defrauded the United States … Read more
VW and Tata have agreed to form a strategic partnership to help both companies boost economy car sales in India and emerging markets. VW’s Skoda unit will lead the project to develop components and vehicles. VW is looking for new markets as it recovers from its diesel emissions scandal. Tata Motors, which is India’s largest … Read more
VW expects to post an underlying operating margin of between 6 and 7 percent this year Volkswagen (VOWG_p. DE) forecast broadly stable earnings this year after record sales of luxury Audi and Porsche cars helped it post its highest annual underlying operating profit ever. The carmaker expects to post an underlying operating margin of between … Read more
Once one of Africa’s biggest car buyers, Algeria is embarking on an ambitious programme aimed at replacing hundreds of thousands of foreign imports with domestically produced models to keep drivers on the road. Facing up to a sharp drop in the price of oil — its main revenue source — the North African nation has … Read more
Volkswagen faces its first legal action in Germany from a big corporate client over the diesel emissions scandal. Deutsche See, which leases 500 vehicles from VW, said it had been unable to reach an out-of-court settlement, Reuters news agency reported. VW is involved in numerous lawsuits from individual owners, regulators, states and dealers, many of … Read more
Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p. DE) has agreed to pay at least $1.22 billion to fix or buy back nearly 80,000 polluting U.S. 3.0 liter diesel-engine vehicles to settle claims it fitted illegal emissions-cheating software to the cars, court documents showed. German auto supplier Robert Bosch GmbH [ROBG.UL] also agreed to pay $327.5 million to U.S. diesel … Read more