Volkswagen AG is cutting temporary workers at its main electric-vehicle factory in Germany after the phaseout of a subsidy in the country caused demand for its EVs to drop.
The manufacturer is letting go 269 people at the Zwickau plant when their 12-month contracts expire in the near future, VW said Thursday. The company expects it will have to adjust the shift schedule at the facility near the Czech border.
The fate of around 2,000 additional temporary staff remains uncertain, according to people familiar with the matter, who declined to be named because a final decision hasn’t been made yet. Corporate orders that accounted for some 70 per cent of VW-branded EVs made in Zwickau have been plummeting since aid for electric company cars expired this month, one of the people said.
just in time for soviet cluskfukastan ( canaduh) to build VW batteries
As Frank Zappa said, the difference between Rob Ford and Thug Fraud is that while stupidity has a certain charm, ignorance does not.
If a product is only produced with subsidies, it won’t be produced once those subsidies go away.
See also the 2 battery factories that are being built with taxpayer money.
The hundreds of billions of public dollars that will be wasted on this absurd folly now and in the next 10? 20? 30? years or so could have been better spent on building new public parks in cities and towns across our countries, employing probably tens of thousands of young people now and into the future to plant and maintain these parks, contributing to both the QOL of residents and those involved in the upkeep. Oh well, maybe in some other dimension in a far away galaxy, but not here on Earth where insanity reigns.
Pushing a rope up a hill. The timeless fantasy of the world’s worst marketers.
Yawn. History is dead.
It is September.
Who is this mental midget Jenn?
Heh. An electric car fanboi site. Clearly objective and impartial.
All right, yes! Imagine it! What happens next? Tell us!
Not real sure you are in any position to opine on the intellect of readers, Comrade Dolt.
Sorry, ma’am, that’s not a valid postal code.
So Trudeau is subsidizing EV plants in Quebec and Ontario, I wonder if the CBC is going to cover this story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j80lvP087qc
Just imagine ten years down the road when all these batteries are brought to a return/recycle depot.
5 years A.
https://www.vw.ca/en/electric-vehicles/everything-ev/ev-news/st-thomas-gigafactory.html
Lemme know when the first battery roles off the line in St. Thomas ONT.