La Volkswagen chiuderà DOMANI il suo stabilimento di Dresda per la prima volta in 88 anni
https://swedenherald.com/article/after-88-years-vw-is-forced-to-close-its-factory
di No-Side-5121
La Volkswagen chiuderà DOMANI il suo stabilimento di Dresda per la prima volta in 88 anni
https://swedenherald.com/article/after-88-years-vw-is-forced-to-close-its-factory
di No-Side-5121
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Volkswagen will close its Dresden plant TOMORROW for the first time in 88 years. At its peak, the Dresden plant produced up to 200,000 cars per year. The closure was prompted by the economic and energy crises, which resulted in the layoff of 35,000 employees.
Volkwagen is expanding production in USA🤣 heavily expanding its existing **Chattanooga, Tennessee** facility for North American EV production (ID.4, battery assembly) and potentially adding Audi/Porsche, while also constructing a new dedicated factory in **Blythewood, South Carolina**, for its revived Scout brand (electric trucks/SUVs), signaling a major U.S. manufacturing push for both mainstream and premium EVs, with Scout production slated for around 2026.
Guys we need to all come together and find a way to retool Germany. They cannot beat China with cars.
Asml machines shouldn’t leave the eu Germany should start adapting. The next hundred years are going to become pretty grim if major eu wide decisions aren’t made yesterday
Surprise surprise. The German Auto companies constantly threaten the government that they’ll leave and close factories and cut jobs unless they get massive subsidies from the government, they get the money then piss off immediately anyways.
The German government will never learn.
History, livelihoods, and identity all tied to one place! hard to see it end like this.
When?
So, after finding themselves threatened by the very chinese market they themselves fueled through their own greed, they now plan to do the same thing, but this time in the USA, all while waving the german/european flag to secure lucrative subsidies and demand laws that protect them…
The shamelessness of certain european companies knows no bounds.
It’s Volkswagen. The same company that first lobbied for ECO standards, just to cheat on the results and get profits where all other companies had to rebuild the engines. Let them die.
Makes sense.
In 1937 VW had access to cheap Jewish Labour
Today VW has access to cheap Uyghur labour
The title is misleading: VW only had this factory for a bit over 20 years.
The original title is also misleading “After 88 years, VW is forced to close its factory”; it’s closing *one* of its factories.
Not that this makes it less worrisome/painful.
The headline is weired. Its about a plant closure in germany in general, not just in Dresden.
As VW obviously also didnt have a plant in Dresden in communist east germany before 1990.
The plant in Dresden was not opened until 2001. Not sure what that headline is suggesting – probalby badly researched.
Some jokes just write themselves, don’t they
Germany is an enemy of Europe episode 719
Volkswagen, you say? I call it karma. Too bad for the workers, though.
“oh no, Chinese cars are coming on the EU marketz we must support the historical brands”
Meanwhile Volkswagen:
Das Auto!
Should’ve waited a year. Bad number to be associated with VW.
Good riddance. A bunch of Redditors trying to gaslight people into buying a German made vehicle. German made vehicles have become bloated and unattractive purchases. For a normal person like me who just needs a car to get from point A to B there is no reason to spend my money on German cars when I can get better options with Japanese and Korean vehicles.
This is what happens when the euro is too high.
Don’t buy Chinese vehicles. Solar panel flooding 2.0.
Any subsidy should come with firm, binding commitments “we will keep X factory/ies open and repay the government in full in Y years”.
Any other type of subsidy is just dumb. Why don’t unions as well just demand free money or say “Give money or we will have to emigrate with our high skilled labor force”
Was a question of time. The entire concept of that factory might have worked for high end cars like Porsche, but not for some VWs… The University taking over and building a research facility is a good plan, which in the long run will be far better than building a few cars by hand with like 300 employees.
We will all be driving Chinese cars in the future
The cars are far too expensive for a VW.
88 hmmmm
The German economy has been deindustrialized. I’m not surprised by this news at all.