Watt's next?

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

https://www.theguardian.com/business...box=1617130602

Volkswagen to rebrand as "Voltswagen".

I'm not quick enough to come up with the next pun.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56582567

they get earlier every year

[San Bernardhinault]

A cynical observer might think that it's convenient to float the idea today, see that the global reaction has been terrible, and have a built in excuse to row it back.

[ursus arctos]

Nah

Never had a chance with the NRW political class that retains an effective veto over VW's major corporate decisions

[caja-dglh]

A cynical observer might think that it's convenient to float the idea today, see that the global reaction has been terrible, and have a built in excuse to row it back.

A switch if they find people are resistors?

[blameless]

Ohm my word this was a ridiculous idea. Some Henry in advertising (not the brightest spark by the sounds of it) reckons that somehow VW needs to be kept current, it goes wrong and they have to do a complete volt-face.

[hobbes]

Ohm my god, that's a terrible joke.

[Capybara]

Will these cars carry the same number of passengers or will they have a different capacitor?

[NHH]

Nah

Never had a chance with the NRW political class that retains an effective veto over VW's major corporate decisions

How is that influence exerted UA?

[ursus arctos]

A significant block of shares, board seats and the institutional shadow of the longtime presence of a Golden share that gave the Land a genuine veto

[NHH]

The wiki entry talks about Lower Saxony having equity but doesn’t say anything about NRW. Odd.

[ursus arctos]

Brain fade on my part

Niedersachsen, not Nordrhein-Westfalen

It isn't as if I don't know what state Wolfsburg is in

[Eggchaser]

Interestingly (or not) VAG have had a major part in the move to BEVs with firstly Dieselgate and now the pretty huge amount of money thrown at the ID series, the Porsche Taycan, the Audi E-Tron series, Skoda Enyaq, Cupra Born and the old E-Golf and E Up triplets.

Pity Toyota have, until very recently, pissed away their advantage on FCEVs (they simply don't work for cars) as I suspect many people would be falling over themselves to buy a decent Toyota EV.