![]() And Piëch was not really giving up power. A brilliant engineer, he was also an authoritarian known for dismissing or exiling subordinates who failed to meet the ambitious goals he set for them. There Piëch received a standing ovation from shareholders grateful that he saved Volkswagen from near bankruptcy and made it the largest car company in Europe.īut, as I argue in the book, Piëch had already created a climate where the emissions scandal could breed. Piëch, grandson of legendary car designer Ferdinand Porsche, has just driven an experimental “one-liter auto”-so-called because it could travel 100 kilometers, or about 60 miles, on a single liter of diesel fuel-to the Volkswagen annual meeting in Hamburg. The chapter that ends on describes the last days of Ferdinand Piëch’s reign as chief executive of Volkswagen. It marks a turning point in the story, which can be summed up as follows: how a company that began as a Nazi propaganda project became the largest car company in the world-only to be exposed as emissions cheaters by a handful of university researchers working with a $70,000 grant. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nevertheless, the page is not a bad place to judge the book. He lives in Frankfurt.Įwing applied the “ Test” to Faster, Higher, Farther and reported the following: Bad luck! in Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal is the end of a chapter and about one-third white space. Jack Ewing is European economics correspondent for The New York Times and author of Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal. ![]()
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