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CTOnews.com June 28 news, according to foreign media Autocar reported that Volkswagen's Emden plant in Lower Saxony, Germany, will cancel two-week shifts. In addition, during the period from July to August, workers on the electric car production line can enjoy four weeks of summer vacation, and the total production reduction time of the production line is expected to reach six weeks.

‎ CTOnews.com noted that the Emden plant is one of four factories where Volkswagen currently produces electric cars in Germany, with the other three in Zvico, Hanover and Dresden.

The models affected by the production cuts are the compact pure electric SUV ID.4 and the medium-sized pure electric sedan ID.7. Volkswagen has invested about 1 billion euros in electric vehicle production at the plant, but the production process of fuel vehicles, including Passat, will continue.

The picture of ▲ shows the overseas version of ID.4. Manfred Wulff, chairman of the labor committee of Volkswagen's Emden factory, responded to local media that of the 1500 temporary workers currently employed, about 300 will not renew their labor contracts in August 2023. According to the original plan, the plant will start production of the new ID.7 model in July this year, but employees were informed of the reduction in electric vehicle production on Monday, and the production schedule for the car has been postponed to "later this year."

▲ shows the Chinese version of FAW-Volkswagen ID.7. Wulff of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of Tuyuan said that the local demand for pure electric models was 30% lower than originally planned, and told local media that "we have encountered strong resistance from customers in the field of electric vehicles."

‎, however, a spokesman for the plant still stated that "we believe that with the official launch of ID 7 at the end of the year, the utilization rate of the plant will improve again."

According to Volkswagen's official 2022 sales report at the beginning of the year, ‎ achieved total sales of more than 2.3971 million vehicles in Chinese mainland and Hong Kong, and delivered more than 180600 vehicles in the new energy sector for the whole year, an increase of 51.6 percent over the same period last year. Among them ID. The total delivery volume of the family for the whole year reached 143100, an increase of 102.9% over the same period last year.

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