Audi Delivered Around 1.9 Million Vehicles in 2023 and Is Starting a Challenging Year From a Position of Strength

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="95566"] source: Audi AG Good sales performance in Europe, the USA, and China Around 178,000 fully electric vehicles delivered Audi CEO Gernot Döllner: “Robust starting position for a challenging year in 2024” Audi delivered around 1.9 million cars in 2023. Deliveries of more than 178,000 fully electric vehicles resulted in an increase of 51 percent compared to 2022. The high demand serves as a robust foundation for a challenging year o...
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REPLY: Storm Reply Launches RAG-based AI Chatbot for Audi, Revolutionising Internal Documentation

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="82360"] The new internal AI chatbot, developed by Storm Reply, gives employees at Audi uncomplicated, fast, and secure access to information. This allows the company to break down knowledge silos and realize better decisions, more efficient processes, and ultimately cost reductions. [source: REPLY] TURIN, Italy–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Storm Reply, the Reply Group company specialising in innovative cloud-based solutions and services, is suppo...
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Audi Group: Solid Development in the First Nine Months

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="92288"] source: Audi AG CFO Jürgen Rittersberger notes: “Stable financial performance in the first three quarters with an operating margin within the target corridor” Member of the Board of Management for Sales Hildegard Wortmann: “We can be very satisfied with around 1.4 million vehicles delivered despite the challenging market environment” Revenue rises to €50.4 billion in the first three quarters, operating profit reac...
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Audi Sport GmbH: 40th Anniversary Insights

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="91063"] source: Audi AG Exclusive event for customers and fans at Audi Forum Neckarsulm Exciting insights into four decades of Audi Sport GmbH Rolf Michl, Managing Director Audi Sport GmbH: “Proud past, even stronger future” Today marks the 40th anniversary of Audi Sport GmbH, which evolved from quattro GmbH. In early summer, Audi started the events to celebrate this anniversary in parallel with the Nürburgring 24 Hours and an exhibiti...
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Gernot Döllner Is New CEO of Audi AG

[gallery link="file" columns="1" size="full" ids="87532"] Transition scheduled for September 1, 2023Consistent implementation and advancement of Audi’s “Vorsprung 2030” strategy [source: Audi AG] Gernot Döllner will take over from Markus Duesmann as Chairman of the Board of Management of AUDI AG, effective September 1, 2023. Audi’s Supervisory Board passed a corresponding resolution on June 29, 2023. “I would like to thank Markus Duesmann for all the important work he has...

The Traditional NSU Brand and the Audi Neckarsulm Site: 150 Years of Innovation and Transformation

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="83760"] source: Audi AG Roots of the traditional NSU brand go back to 1873. In the anniversary year of 2023, Audi Tradition will bring out a number of NSU highlights from AUDI AG’s historical vehicle collection for events. Ten-part series with classic and exotic cars from NSU’s product history The traditional NSU brand is celebrating its birthday. In 1873, Christian Schmidt and Heinrich Stoll founded “Mechanische Werkstätte Schmidt &a...
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Audi Tradition’s New Book Provides “insights” into AUDI AG’s Collection of Historical Vehicles

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="80271"] source: Audi AG 256 pages of treasures from the company’s history; production models, unique prototypes and show cars Presentation of the illustrated book and signing session with the author and photographer at the Audi museum mobile in Ingolstadt and at the Audi Forum in Neckarsulm Audi’s archive of automobiles as an illustrated book: under the title “insights”, Audi Tradition’s new book, published by Delius Klasing V...
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Audi Group First Half-Year: Operating Profit at All-Time High

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="74545"] source: Audi AG CEO Duesmann: “Global fossil fuel crisis affirms strategic focus on e-mobility and carbon-neutral production.” CFO Rittersberger: “A strong first half-year shows that Audi has mastered the turbulence well and systematically seized opportunities.” Revenues of €29.9 billion, operating profit of €4.9 billion, operating margin of 16.5%, net cash flow of €2.6 billion. The Audi Group is pre...
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Fiscal Year 2021: Audi Group Achieves All-Time Highs in Operating Profit and Net Cash Flow

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="69810"] source: Audi AG CEO Markus Duesmann: “Audi has a clear plan for the electric and digital future.” CFO Jürgen Rittersberger: “In a very challenging environment, we showed our financial strengths.” Operating profit of 5.5 billion euros and net cash flow of 7.8 billion euros Brand group: Joint goals and synergy potentials in high nine-figure range In the challenging fiscal year of 2021, Audi once again put its strengths to the ...
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Audi Group Makes Healthy Profit Despite Semi-Conductor Crisis – Forecast for 2021 Adjusted

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="65428"] source: Audi AG After nine months: 1.3 million Audi brand vehicles delivered, revenue €40.4 billion, operating profit of €3.9 billion and operating return on sales of 9.5 percent Net cash flow strong at €7.9 billion Trend in third quarter: shortage of semi-conductors holds back deliveries and financial performance Adjusted forecast reflects Audi’s good price position, strong situation, and cost discipline CFO Jürgen Rittersber...
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The Status After Three Months: Audi’s Momentum Was Strong In The First Quarter of 2021

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="60601"] source: Audi AG Sales revenue €14.1 billion, operating profit €1.4 billion, operating return on sales 10.0 percent, profits before tax €1.7 billion Strong performance partly thanks to special items: net cash flow €3.1 billion First quarter of 2021 was characterized especially by strong demand, positive price and mix effects, and positive valuation effects in ensuring raw materials supply Audi accelerates e-mobilit...
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Four World Premieres and PPE Technology – Audi at Auto Shanghai 2021

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="60119"] source: Audi AG Audi shares a stand at the fair with FAW and SAIC for the first time Consistent continuation of the electric offensive in China Audi CEO Markus Duesmann: “Setting a new course for Audi in China” For the first time the presentation of AUDI AG at Auto Shanghai 2021 is taking place with two partners at a shared trade-fair stand. Audi and its Chinese partner companies FAW and SAIC are showing no fewer than four world ...
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Audi Ends 2020 with the Most Successful Quarter in the Company’s History

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="57128"] source: Audi AG Over 500,000 cars delivered between October and December A total of 1.69 million delivered worldwide in a challenging year New best figures in China: 727,358 cars (+5,4%) Hildegard Wortmann, Board Member for Sales and Marketing: “We aim for further growth in 2021” AUDI AG ended 2020 with the most successful quarter-year in the company’s history for cars delivered: between October and December the company supplie...
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On Track: Audi Group Achieves Breakeven Thanks To Strong Third Quarter

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="54685"] source: Audi AG Strong third quarter: deliveries and revenue up year-on-year, operating profit clearly positive First nine months: 1.2 million Audi brand vehicles delivered, revenue of €33.3 billion, operating profit before special items of €221 million and operating return on sales before special items of 0.7 percent Net cash flow of €3.8 billion significantly above high prior-year figure despite corona crisis, partially ...
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Audi Electrifies FC Bayern Munich

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="52897"] source: Audi AG Champions League winners start driving Audi e-tron2 Car handover and Audi driving experience in Munich Audi Board Member for Sales and Marketing Wortmann: “Together with FC Bayern we live ‘Vorsprung’ and are sending a message in line with our path toward an electric future.” Enabled by the partnership with Audi: FC Bayern Munich is the first international football club to drive using electric power. The s...
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Audi Group in First Half of 2020: Effects of Corona Pandemic Still Very Significant

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="50040"] source: Audi AG Deliveries to customers: stabilization in the markets Continuing along the electrification course: Audi e-tron is world market leader for all-electric vehicles from German premium manufacturers Audi Group: €20,476 million revenue, €643 million operating loss before special items, operating return on sales before special items of minus 3.1 percent Net cash flow of €1,953 million mainly due to sales...
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Audi Uses Drones to Locate Vehicles at Neckarsulm Site

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="49941"] source: Audi AG Drone flies over parked vehicles autonomously Exact vehicle locating with drone, GPS, and RFID technology Project manager Steffen Conrad: “The fast locating of the vehicles creates even higher process quality and is a further stepping stone on the path to digital production.” Audi is using a specially developed drone system to locate vehicles that are ready for dispatch at the Neckarsulm site. ...
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Audi Realigns Its Technical Development Division

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="48646"] source: Audi AG CEO Markus Duesmann takes over additional Board of Management responsibility for Technical Development Chairman of the Supervisory Board Herbert Diess: “We thank Hans-Joachim Rothenpieler for 34 years of successful work at the Volkswagen Group.” Chairman of the General Works Council Peter Mosch: “The next steps are a matter for the boss: accelerating processes and modernizing structures in an employee-f...
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Britta Seeger Meets Hildegard Wortmann: A Conversation About Driving Fun, Emancipation, and Strategy

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="47936"] source: Mercedes-Benz.com From: DRIVE, Stuttgarter Zeitung Supplement, May/June 2020. Interview: Mirella Sidro. Photos: Philipp Mueller. As members of the management board of Daimler AG and Audi AG, Britta Seeger and Hildegard Wortmann represent the growing number of female managers who are putting their stamp on the auto industry. A conversation about driving fun, emancipation and strategy. DRIVE : Ms Seeger, Ms Wortmann, what was yo...
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Audi museum mobile at Audi Forum Ingolstadt Has Reopened

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="47575"] words: Bill, photos: Audi AG, mlmomentum The restart of production at Ingolstadt isn't the only facility opening there...Audi AG recently announced that the Audi museum mobile is now open for visits. This is a fascinating museum for the Audi enthusiast and should be on your list if you ever make it to Ingolstadt. Packed full of iconic race cars, concepts, and vehicles, the museum mobile is more than an art museum; it's a walk throug...
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