The big boss of the electric car at Volkswagen is going to design boats
It is he who is behind the development of the electric car at Volkswagen.But after 10 years of good and loyal service, Michael Jost decided to leave to develop ... electr ... boats ...
22/08/2022
It is he who is behind the development of the electric car at Volkswagen.But after 10 years of good and loyal service, Michael Jost decided to leave to develop...Electric boats.
In the wake of dieselgate, and at the time of the gigantic transition from the Volkswagen group to the electric car, in full development, Michael Jost announced: "To convince, you have to tell a good story".Convince who?The general public to adopt the electric car, and to validate, somewhere, the billions of euros in investments made by the German giant to erase his humiliation of the rigged TDI.
In 2018, Jost was among the "first" of the Volkswagen group to focus on the electric car.Interviewed by our Swiss colleagues from the magazine Automobile last year, he had also explained that at that time, a good part of the automotive professionals would have taken him for a madman to bet so much on the electric car.
The Director of the Volkswagen Group strategy is therefore the instigator of the Grand Renewal of Volkswagen and all the brands that make up the "VW" galaxy.But the covid and a withdrawal has visibly got the better of its involvement at Volkswagen.
Having had teleworking and having devoted himself a little more to "family life" reoriented the man who reoriented VW.He has just announced that he was leaving his post to develop electrical luxury boats.Sacred change.
For Volkswagen, this change is not trivial.This position is crucial for the development of the whole group, and we already know the replacement for Michael Jost.This is the current manager of the development of the Panamera range at Porsche, Gernot Döllner.
Jost's last accomplishment?The famous "Trinity" project at Volkswagen.Hopefully for the German group that the long -term vision of the one who made the change after the Dieslegate will not miss too much.