The Volkswagen Group offers the world's largest low-CO2 fleet.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The U.S. market has the highest priority for Volkswagen.
Regardless of whether we are in an upturn or a downturn, our goal is to ensure the Volkswagen Group reaches the top of the automotive industry.
The integrated automotive group of Volkswagen and Porsche is a certainty.
The fact that companies are getting into building power plants that collect their own CO2 on-site shows there's some leadership in that industry. Some industries have seen the writing on the wall: that carbon will have to be managed.
VW's future is increasingly being decided in China, Russia, India, the Americas and Southeast Asia. This is where we will generate most of our growth in future.
I believe those that produce the least emissions in autos will also be those who have the greatest success worldwide.
The European auto industry made a commitment to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by an average of 140 grams per kilometer. But then there was a significant change in what customers wanted in their vehicles.
A car produces about one pound of CO2 per mile. There is no problem with collecting the CO2 in the tailpipe, but one might easily end up with a trailer hitched to the car for carrying all this CO2 back to the filling station. The gas burned from a 15-gallon tank would fill up five 60-inch-tall gas bottles.
The United States will remain one of the most important markets for VW.
The largest automobile company in the world is Volkswagen. Who owns it? The answer is the government of Qatar.