Germany's largest electric vehicle base is facing difficulties, and Volkswagen faces new challenges when it suspends production

Volkswagen faces new electric car production dilemma. According to foreign media electrek, due to a shortage of drive motors, Volkswagen had to announce the suspension of electric vehicle production at its Zwickau plant in Germany for three weeks.

This suspension of production It will affect many electric models of Volkswagen, including ID.4, ID.5 and Audi Q4 e-tron, etc., but ID.3 is not affected. The Zwickau plant is Volkswagen's largest electric vehicle production base in Europe. The plant invested nearly US$1.3 billion in 2018 to transform it to adapt to the production needs of pure electric models.

According to the editor’s understanding, Volkswagen has four factories in Germany specializing in the production of electric models, located in Emden, Dresden and Hannover. Earlier, it was reported that Volkswagen planned to lay off temporary workers at its main electric vehicle plant in Germany due to a decrease in electric vehicle orders in Europe. In this plan, the contracts of nearly 300 employees at the Zwickau plant are expected to end when they expire in October, while the future of around 2,000 temporary employees remains uncertain. This has brought some uneasiness to the factory's 10,700 employees.

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