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Dirk Grosse-Loheide - Biography

  • Member of the Board of Management for Procurement
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Dirk Grosse-Loheide was born in Hanover in 1964. Following an apprenticeship as a banker at Deutsche Bank AG, Grosse-Loheide began studying economics at the University of Hanover and graduated with a degree in economics. He then began his career at Volkswagen in Wolfsburg in 1990 in machinery procurement.

From 1994 onwards, he took over responsible functions initially in general purchasing at SEAT in Martorell and from 2000 at the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles brand in Hanover. There he assumed the position of Board Member for Procurement and Production in 2007. In 2011, Grosse-Loheide was appointed Board Member for Procurement North America at Volkswagen de México in Puebla. Starting in 2014, he was responsible for the procurement of services and systems for the Group. Grosse-Loheide joined MAN Truck & Bus in 2017 as Board Member for Procurement and at the same time became Head of Procurement for the company that is known today as the TRATON GROUP, which includes MAN as well as the Scania and Volkswagen Truck & Bus brands. He was made Head of Group Operations Procurement in April 2019. On October 1, 2019, he was appointed a member of the Brand Board of Management for Volkswagen Passenger Cars, overseeing Procurement functions. On April 1, 2020, he joined the Board of Management of Volkswagen Pkw, before also assuming responsibility for the Board Procurement functions and IT at Audi.

Effective January 1, 2023, Dirk Grosse-Loheide became Head of Group Procurement on the Extended Executive Board and took over as Head of the Procurement Department for the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand. In his roles as the Board member responsible for Procurement at the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand and as a member of the Extended Executive Committee, he also oversees the procurement organizations of the brands and regions. At Audi, he continues to head the Procurement department on an interim basis. Renate Vachenauer will take over the department from April 1, 2023.

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The indicated consumption and emissions values were determined according to the legally specified measuring methods. The WLTP test cycle completely replaced the NEDC on January 1, 2022, which means that no NEDC figures are available for vehicles with new type approvals from after this date.

The figures do not refer to a single, specific vehicle and are not part of the offering but are instead provided solely to allow comparisons of the different vehicle types. Additional equipment and accessories (add-on parts, different tire formats, etc.) may change relevant vehicle parameters, such as weight, rolling resistance and aerodynamics, and, in conjunction with weather and traffic conditions and individual driving style, may affect fuel consumption, electrical power consumption, CO2 emissions and the performance figures for the vehicle.

Due to the more realistic test conditions, the consumption and CO2 emission values measured are in many cases higher than the values measured according to the NEDC. This may result in corresponding changes in vehicle taxation since September 1, 2018. Additional information about the differences between WLTP and NEDC is available at www.audi.de/wltp

Further information on official fuel consumption figures and the official specific CO2 emissions of new passenger cars can be found in the “Guide on the fuel economy, CO2 emissions and power consumption of all new passenger car models”, which is available free of charge at all sales dealerships and from DAT Deutsche Automobil Treuhand GmbH, Hellmuth-Hirth-Str. 1, 73760 Ostfildern, Germany (www.dat.de).

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