{"id":33326,"date":"2022-06-02T08:39:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T08:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/volkswagens-race-with-tesla-will-be-tight-diess-says\/"},"modified":"2022-06-02T08:39:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T08:39:22","slug":"volkswagens-race-with-tesla-will-be-tight-diess-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/volkswagens-race-with-tesla-will-be-tight-diess-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen&#8217;s race with Tesla will be tight, Diess says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p data-testid=\"primary-image-caption\" id=\"primary-image-caption\" class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__medium-grey__3A_RT text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__base__22dCE body__caption__3L8vY article-body__primary-image-caption__WHVnb\">Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess looks on during his visit to Volkswagen&#8217;s electric car plant in Zwickau, Germany, June 23, 2021. REUTERS \/ Matthias Rietschel<\/p>\n<div class=\"registration-prompt__container__2jf5K column article-body__aside-registration-prompt__2ivER\">\n<div class=\"registration-prompt__text-content__o0YET\">\n<h6 data-testid=\"Heading\" class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__white__3r45t text__medium__1kbOh text__heading_6__1qUJ5 heading__base__2T28j heading__heading_6__RtD9P registration-prompt__heading__3fq-h\">Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com<\/h6>\n<p><button data-testid=\"Button\" class=\"button__button__2Ecqi button__secondary__18moI button__round__1nYLA text-button__container__3q3zX registration-prompt__button-text__3kTtQ\" type=\"button\"><\/p>\n<p><span data-testid=\"Text\" class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__inherit-color__3208F text__bold__2-8Kc text__default__UPMUu text-button__medium__113uZ\">Register<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-0\" class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\">BERLIN, June 1 (Reuters) &#8211; Tesla (TSLA.O) works at twice the industry pace in many processes but still needs to ramp up highly complex factories and find qualified workers to win the electric vehicle race, Volkswagen&#8217;s (VOWG_p.DE) chief executive said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-1\" class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\">The US carmaker, posing a challenge to German electric vehicle production with its new plant near Berlin, had the advantage of a blank slate start and a small number of models, Diess said, making it easier to scale.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-2\" class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\">But his own company Volkswagen was also speeding up, Diess said.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-3\" class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\">&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot coming from our side too &#8230; a lot of momentum. 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REUTERS \/ Matthias Rietschel Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register BERLIN, June 1 (Reuters) &#8211; Tesla (TSLA.O) works at twice the industry pace in many processes but still needs to ramp up &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/volkswagens-race-with-tesla-will-be-tight-diess-says\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Volkswagen&#8217;s race with Tesla will be tight, Diess says<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[8],"tags":[56,730,731,732,999,1008,25,255,256,1011,997,733,58,1009,74,64,87,75,57,53],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/resizer\/43rfg4gGpkqqC9WVj4djQogHOQE=\/1200x628\/smart\/filters:quality(80)\/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com\/reuters\/KI22I6FL35ORXFJ6XKBFKNB66E.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}