Volkswagen could close several factories in Germany
- The Volkswagen group has announced that there is a shortage of around 500,000 cars to be produced in Germany in 2023 for its factories located in this country to be saturated. Inovev compared the number of vehicles produced by the Volkswagen group in Germany in 2023 to the current production capacity of each of the carmaker's factories, and indeed the difference is 540,000 vehicles.
- Volkswagen has announced the possible closure of several of its factories located in Germany if the automobile market does not recover. Apart from the Dresden and Osnabruck factories which are practically at a standstill, the German factory most threatened is undoubtedly Emden which has no longer produced the Passat since the end of last year, this one having been transferred to the Bratislava site, empty since the end of the small cars Volkswagen Up, Seat Mii and Skoda Citigo.
- The Volkswagen ID7 has replaced the Passat on the assembly lines at the Emden factory, but given the low sales numbers recorded by the ID7, the factory is slowing down. This factory is therefore one of the carmaker's most threatened German factories.
- With the announcement of the possible closure of the Belgian factory in Brussels-Forest, the end of subsidies for electric cars in Germany and the possible European additional taxes on electric cars from China which could provoke a reaction from China concerning sales of European cars in the country, difficulties seem to be piling up for the leading European carmaker, the Volkswagen group.