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Internationally acclaimed artist created an iconic work when picturing Volkswagen’s power plant in WolfsburgToday at Autostadt: Professor Folke Köbberling, art historian Professor emeritus Dr. Barbara Schellewald, Volkswagen Board Member Thomas Schmall and art historian Dieter Landenberger talk about the influential role of this photographyVolkswagen trainees build a large-size photo frame at the original site of the photo shootingTransformation of power plants cuts CO₂ emissions at German Volkswagen production sites by 50 percent from 2022 onwards In the 1960s, photographer Heinrich Heidersberger had captured the atmosphere in the Wolfsburg region with its people, places and production sites in a number of outstanding and timeless images. Providing different impressions of the young industrial city of Wolfsburg, his series of black and white photography includes “Kraftwerk der Volkswagen AG” which Heidersberger took in 1971. It has become not only an artistic icon but also plays a key

recently presented high-performance model ID.4 GTX have in common? They all have cutting-edge technology on board in the shape of the high-voltage battery system from Volkswagen Group Components in Braunschweig. This makes for strong performance, long range, excellent safety and rapid charging. The demand for attractive and affordable electric vehicles based on the modular electric drive matrix (MEB) is so high that the site recently expanded production to up to 500,000 batteries a year. Thomas Schmall, member of the Group Board of Management for Technology and CEO of Volkswagen Group Components: “The battery is the technical heart of the electric vehicle as it determines driving pleasure, costs, range and charging experience. For this reason it plays a key role for ensuring sustained customer satisfaction in our Group brands.” Battery systems are therefore an integral part of making the ACCELERATE brand strategy a reality. The Volkswagen brand has announced that it will significantly increase

right direction. With our improved result, the brand is making a key contribution to the success of the entire Group. However, we are only at the beginning. Further progress in our core business will strengthen our foundation to make Volkswagen a world market leader in e-mobility by 2025. Electric offensive: new Board of Management division "E-Mobility" in 2018, Volkswagen will further intensify preparations for its electric offensive. The new Board of Management division "E-Mobility", headed by Thomas Ulbrich, pools the electric activities of the brand and firmly links this key topic of the future to the Board of Management. From 2020, the Volkswagen brand plans to introduce an entirely new generation of full electric cars based on the modular electrification toolkit (MEB). Preparations for this offensive are proceeding to schedule. With an investment of about €1 billion, the brand will transform the Zwickau plant into the European competence centre for e-mobility and will produce all the