Volkswagen’s Diess to step apart at Skoda, Seat to focal point on software
Volkswagen community CEO Herbert Diess delivers a speech in some unspecified time in the future of a mosey to to the SEAT (Volkswagen community) carmaker’s factory in Martorell, advance Barcelona, March 5, 2021. REUTERS/Albert Gea
Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE)
boss Herbert Diess is stepping down as head of the supervisory boards at subsidiaries Seat and Skoda to focal point on lift a stronger software-trend team of workers, a particular person aware of the mattersaid on Thursday.
Volkswagen declined to comment.
Handelsblatt had reported the news earlier.
At Seat, Diess could perchance well be succeeded by most recent technology head Thomas Schmall and at Skoda by Murat Aksel, head of procurement on the Volkswagen board, the availability added.
Volkswagen has been heavily centered on regaining lost ground within the short-rising self-discipline of software-heavy electrical vehicles, the place apart United States and Chinese language producers are seen as having a lead.
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