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VW Picks an Awkward Time to Raise Its Bet on Rivian to $5.8 Billion

The increasingly pricey partnership already wasn’t sitting well with Volkswagen’s works council in Germany.

Volkswagen workers rallying at the company's complex in Wolfsburg, Germany, last month.

Photographer: Liesa Johannssen/Bloomberg

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Volkswagen’s already contentious decision to plow billions of dollars into electric-vehicle maker Rivian just got $800 million more awkward.