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Re:Will Tesla and Google Kill the German Car? by carlsborg on Monday November 04, 2019 @04:45PM (#21446851)
“As of December 31, 2018, our Research and Development departments employed 51,948 people (+5.3%) Group-wide or 7.8% of the total headcount.”

They also spend €13.6 billion on r&d every year.

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Re:Will Tesla and Google Kill the German Car? by jryle70 on Monday November 04, 2019 @08:29PM (#21448746)
VW's revenue in 2018 is €235.85 billion so that means they spent 5.7% of revenue on R&D. For comparison, Nokia spent 11% of their net sales in 2007 on R&D, at the time when they appeared invincible, also the year iPhone was announced. Those huge numbers usually don't correlate with success.
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