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The article title implies that it's because of the business decision to pivot to EV's, that feels like an oversimplification of his legacy. I thought this was a

The article title implies that it's because of the business decision to pivot to EV's, that feels like an oversimplification of his legacy. I thought this was an excellent piece: https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/herbert-diess-volkswagens-disruptor-chief-200132525.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFcQci2c_OtCyekadGGdBvOOxsO2W3VXnqbFQ4dDwFObPsOnZqgdxn7QUE1E9fMQUBWSjIjC-at-rZGL1XOh42kEOJG3L2yUaZlpBtT6JuyqcnnqElii_aA9MdovIS1-WE8eYN8f4MAdzoihgkuF56VpmFjGpTRvql41k28eM1EG https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/herbert-diess-volkswagens-...

KerrAvon 4y ago
> But members of the Porsche and Piech families, major shareholders, were concerned that Diess was not delivering results fast enough from his multi-billion euro investments in EVs and software development. This feels shortsighted. The one thing I will credit Tesla with is recognition that software is key to the future of the automobile. Traditional car manufacturers really do not get this (or did not, prior to Tesla). They were all was outsourcing their software. Diess did seem to understand this. Maybe just getting VW pointed in the right direction is enough. But if they start outsourcing the system software again, they're in deep shit long term.
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WorldMaker 4y ago
The interesting thing that jumps out to me in that piece is: > In the United States, Diess could be remembered as the executive who brought back the beloved VW microbus as a stylish EV, and revived the Scout truck brand. But Diess irritated U.S. Volkswagen dealers with talk about selling Scouts directly to consumers. Shareholders generally don't care about labor issues (some of them love it when unions are angry), and shareholders probably don't really know/care about software issues (other than related quarterly timeline slippages), this almost buried factoid about Scout to me almost sounds the like the most obvious reason for this shareholder-lead coup. There's probably still plenty of dealer representation among shareholders. That very public hint that Scouts could possible be sold direct to consumer was released so recently that it doesn't seem likely to be coincidence.

KerrAvon 4y ago

> But members of the Porsche and Piech families, major shareholders, were concerned that Diess was not delivering results fast enough from his multi-billion euro investments in EVs and software development. This feels shortsighted. The one thing I will credit Tesla with is recognition that software is key to the future of the automobile. Traditional car manufacturers really do not get this (or did not, prior to Tesla). They were all was outsourcing their software. Diess did seem to understand this. Maybe just getting VW pointed in the right direction is enough. But if they start outsourcing the system software again, they're in deep shit long term.

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WorldMaker 4y ago

The interesting thing that jumps out to me in that piece is: > In the United States, Diess could be remembered as the executive who brought back the beloved VW microbus as a stylish EV, and revived the Scout truck brand. But Diess irritated U.S. Volkswagen dealers with talk about selling Scouts directly to consumers. Shareholders generally don't care about labor issues (some of them love it when unions are angry), and shareholders probably don't really know/care about software issues (other than related quarterly timeline slippages), this almost buried factoid about Scout to me almost sounds the like the most obvious reason for this shareholder-lead coup. There's probably still plenty of dealer representation among shareholders. That very public hint that Scouts could possible be sold direct to consumer was released so recently that it doesn't seem likely to be coincidence.