Volkswagen’s EV Line Shift Cancellation, Summer Vacation Extended
The latest report has recently revealed that a portion of Volkswagen’s Emden plant in Northwest Germany will stay closed for six weeks. Those factory employees who are assigned to the electric car lines will have the chance to take an extended one month summer holiday, whilst one shift is set to be aborted for a two week stretch.
Manfred Wulff, the head of the works council from the Emden plant, supplied the German Press Agency and the Nordwest Zeitung (North West newspaper) with data.
Impacted vehicles incorporate the ID.4 electric sports utility vehicle and the arriving ID.7 electric car. In April of 2021 we put under examination the ID.7. Construction of petrol-engine models, including the Passat, will remain unaffected.
Wulff declared a cutback in their factory personnel. Of the 1500 employees who were only employed temporarily, 300 of them will have their contracts terminated come August 2023. There is undoubtedly corroboration from the decrease in personnel and additional vacation periods that sales are decelerating drastically.
Demand for EVs has dropped by 30 percent, in comparison to the initially projected outputs. Potential purchasers furthermore indicate wariness, Wulff clarified to Nordwest Zeitung. The original plan of creating the ID.7 car by July 2023 has been postponed until later on in 2021.
Olaf Lies, the economic affairs minister of Lower Saxony, voiced his understanding to a newspaper for Volkswagen’s decisions in Emden. He called for the lowering of value-added tax (VAT) and extra electric promotion incentives to counter the sales downturn.
Volkswagen Group’s sales experienced a noteworthy boost of 68% in Europe during the first quarter of 2023 compared to the same period last year, while US sales escalated drastically by 98%. Unfortunately, figures from China were disappointing, with a disheartening 25% decrease; China not only being VW Group’s leading market but also the foremost electric vehicle industry in the world.
In the past year, Volkswagen revealed their intentions to put roughly $1.1 billion into modernizing and retooling their Emden plant so that it could produce vehicles based on the MEB platform. Moreover, this very factory has a total of 8,000 employees.
The renowned brand engineers and manufactures electric cars in a number of locations around the world, including four places in Germany: Emden, Hanover, Dresden, and Zwickau. Furthermore, its primary pursuits in producing the much sought-after ID.4 are carried out in international EV plants in China’s Anting and Foshan cities, as well as a Chattanooga facility in the US.
Source: Nordwest Zeitung
