he wears right now the entire automotive industry on their shoulders. Meet Volkswagen CEO Matthias Müller, who not yet have a response to the diesel cheating to be solved in the United States. Photo: Jonas Froberg
Geneva. The white-haired man standing in front of us in the brown suit is the automotive world’s toughest jobs: He’ll ride out the diesel gate.
The entire motor show revolves around that Volkswagen deliberately manipulated the software in the 11 million cars around the world.
the Volkswagen Group is usually otherwise have a large, almost turgid presentation of the car news in a big stadium the night before the motor show begins.
this year it is different.
Around 400 journalists from around the world have gathered in a small room to listen to two more low-key speech on Volkswagen today and in the connected future.
When SvD Enterprise and another Swedish newspaper interview Group CEO Matthias Müller among the cars afterwards he collected, says that 2016 will be a crucial year for the VW group.
– We will solve the problems of diesel engines. We must regain the trust of customers, and reorganizing the whole group in the structures and decision making. And we need to change the culture.
in Europe, Volkswagen has reached agreement with authorities and is now calling in cars to remove the fake software.
A big question has been whether Volkswagen can guarantee that the power of the motors is not reduced and fuel consumption is increased when to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions. Researchers in combustion engines around the world have indicated that they are communicating vessels that affect each other.
Can you promise that the power of the engines and the fuel consumption will be the same after the surgery?
– Yes, I can. Yes, I can !, he says in English and smiles when he realizes that it probably sounded like Obama’s “yes we can”.
So you promise that?
– Yes.
But in the US emissions requirements for nitrogen oxide tougher. It requires major surgery, where Volkswagen has been no solution despite several meetings, including the equivalent of the Environmental Protection Agency EPA. Among other things, the Süddeutsche Zeitung speculated that Volkswagen has to recall 115,000 cars.
As late as February 25, reported Reuters news agency that the Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco set a deadline of 24 March when he wants to have a definitive answer on how Volkswagen should fix the problem. Breyer was stated that no solution existed for 6 months.
First let Matthias Müller does not know of any time limit.
– We have a time when when we should be seen. It is another step in the negotiations, and we’ll see what result it gets.
But is March 24 a deadline?
– For me, it is a date when we meet again and have another negotiation.
There has been speculation that Scania and MAN – (in practice, the company Volkswagen Truck and Bus) should be placed on the stock market and thus get money, but not only the group but for the truck operations’ expansion in the US and China, where competitors such as Daimler and Volvo already.
How do you see it?
– There are no discussions about it.
What do you think?
– We have 12 brands, we are proud of them and we will keep it that way.
So you will not list the MAN and Scania?
– Why?
I ask you …
When absent the answer.
he says he thinks daily on the large amount that Volkswagen will soon have to put up with. Only the US Department of Justice has sued Volkswagen at 46 billion dollars – in addition to going to more than 500 car owners in the US prosecution.
He would not speculate on how much the final bill will be.
Just the uncertainty got VW group to push on both the annual results for 2015 and the Annual General Meeting. Later this spring expected a first report from the large independent audit is done and then also expected annual results are presented.
See more organizational changes?
– 7 out of 10 of the management team are new. I have formed a team and I do not see that we need to change more there now.
If you wake up in the middle of the night, which is the toughest issue for the Volkswagen Group?
– We must regain the trust of our customers. And we need to reorganize the group.
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