“One thing that Diess does that is positive, he keeps repeating — even when no one in Wolfsburg wants to hear it — that Tesla is the benchmark. He is using Tesla to create pressure within the company for a necessary transformation,” Stefan Bratzel, director of the Centre of Automotive Management in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, told The New York Times.

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