• Dynamic, confident, sporty and at the same time practical: the new Caddy and Caddy Cargo
• Innovative and yet 100% Caddy: urban delivery van and family MPV forge ahead in new dimensions
• More driver assistance systems and a completely new level of digitalisation for the customers

Hannover, 27 January 2020 – The new generation is going to be very different and yet it fulfils all familiar demands: Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles’ fifth generation Caddy will be a completely new car. No screw has been left untouched. The new Caddy will nevertheless again become the benchmark vehicle in the A segment of commercial urban delivery vans and privately used family MPVs. For as a marvellously spacious vehicle with two wheelbases, it continues to fulfil all traditional desires for far-reaching transport options and high levels of freedom in the everyday routines of the manual trades, service providers and families.

• California 6.1 Beach clinches award with new mini kitchen

Hannover, 14 January 2020 – The Beach version of the California 6.1, with its new mini kitchen, is the winner of the European Innovation Award 2020. The prize was presented on Sunday evening at Europe's largest holiday and leisure trade show: CMT in Stuttgart. It was the third high-calibre award for the new California 6.1 within the space of a week, having over the last few days also been crowned ‘Motorhome of the Year 2020’ and won the ‘Connected Car Award 2020’.

• Positive development in Europe
• Downturn in Middle East crisis region
• Crafter line makes big gains globally

Hannover, 10 January 2020 – Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles delivered 491,600 light commercial vehicles to customers across the globe in the 2019 trading year. The brand thus finished a narrow 1.6 per cent below the level of the previous year (499,700). While the company recorded modest growth in the European markets, the crisis-laden economic situations in the Middle East, South America and Australia led to drops in sales there that could not be fully compensated for elsewhere.

• New Caddy and Caddy Cargo coming next year
• Dynamic, confident, sporty and yet practical
• The new generation is going to be very different, yet fulfils all familiar demands

Hannover, 20 December 2019 – Who says a Caddy can’t be sporty? Initial sketches of the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles design provide a preview of how the completely new Caddy could look from 2020: one thing is for sure, no screw has been left untouched. Nevertheless the new Caddy will again become the benchmark vehicle in the A segment of commercial delivery vans and privately used family MPVs.
 

• Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) and Volkswagen AG announce pioneering autonomous, electric transport initiative to transform urban mobility in Qatar
• Prototypes of ID. BUZZ1 AD shuttles from Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles and of Scania buses to operate on a self-driving system with zero emissions
• MOIA ride hailing app is used to run the service, AID delivers self-driving system (SDS) knowledge
• Autonomous Driving Roadmap pulled forward

Hannover/Doha, December 14, 2019 – For the first time ever a cutting-edge fleet of self-driving Level 4 electric shuttles will usher in a new era of urban mobility in a capital city in 2022: Earlier today in Doha, representatives of Volkswagen AG and the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) signed the ‘Project Qatar Mobility’. The goal is to develop a ground-breaking autonomous transport project and transform the future of urban mobility to a sustainable and commercial deployment of AD shuttles and bus services – even beyond 2022. Fostering a cross-brand collaboration as blueprint for future Autonomous Driving (AD) solutions, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Scania, MOIA and AID-Autonomous Intelligent Driving will play an important role in this project. During the largest sporting event in the world, Qatar will thus be the venue for the world’s first emission-free, electric and autonomous public transport system.

• Operating in three shifts, workers at the plant produce 420 Crafter and MAN TGE models a day
• Christiane Engel, Plant Director at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles in Września: "200,000 vehicles since autumn 2016 shows the quality of the production operation"
• January to October 2019: 56,400 Crafter vehicles shipped (up 25.2 per cent)

Hannover/Germany, Września/Poland, 3 December 2019 – 200,000 vehicles in 39 months: at the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles plant in the Polish city of Września this production record is a reason to celebrate. In only around three years since the start of production in September 2016, the workers at the plant, which had already been built in record time, have in total turned out 200,000 Crafter and MAN TGE vehicles.
 

• New Grand California camper being made in cutting edge Września Crafter plant
• 1000th Grand California being delivered to a customer in Germany

Hannover / Września, 29 November 2019 – The Crafter-based Grand California is Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles’ new large mobile home. Full production of the campervan began this spring. Now the Crafter plant in Września (Poland) has already seen the 1000th Grand California roll off the production line.
 

• Growth in the key markets Western Europe and Germany
• Crafter global sales rise by 25 per cent
• Five per cent growth in the month of October

Hannover, 21 November 2019 – Over the past then month Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles (VWCV) has delivered 409,600 light commercial vehicles to customers world-wide and remains on last year’s level (409,700 units). In the month of October alone global sales of the Caddy, Transporter, Crafter and Amarok product lines rose by five per cent to 39,800 units.

• More than 180 entries, eight finalists, two winners: start-ups from Germany, Spain, Israel and Bulgaria
• Jury made up of experts from the logistics and mobility sector
• Winners Neohelden and VISCOPIC each receive €125,000 of start-up capital

Hannover/Hamburg, 6 November 2019 – Start-ups Neohelden and VISCOPIC have won the Future Logistics Challenge 2019. The award was initiated by Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles and Hermes Europe. The winners each receive €125,000 of start-up capital to carry out a feasibility test of the ideas that they presented. They will be doing this proof of concept test together with Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles and Hermes Europe. The shared objective: solutions for the logistics world of tomorrow.