Il boss della Volkswagen vuole chiudere le fabbriche europee
https://www.arenaev.com/volkswagen_boss_wants_to_close_european_factories-news-3892.php
di oblio-
Il boss della Volkswagen vuole chiudere le fabbriche europee
https://www.arenaev.com/volkswagen_boss_wants_to_close_european_factories-news-3892.php
di oblio-
15 commenti
Protectionism is kind of bad, but companies are becoming completely dumb these days. I guess they want to move everything to China and in case something goes sideways, Mr. VW CEO, what will your company do when China nationalizes your factories??? I guess you’ll be long gone with your tens of millions of euros.
VW ICE cars seems to be following a path similar to what Nokia Mobile Phone Handsets did few decades ago..
mind you this: VW is still making profit and had one slightly bad year. Close the EU plants then we can finally get on with buying chinese cars…
I mean if Volkswagen also wants to lose it’s political influence, sure go ahead.
We’ve seen that happen to British car industry and later to Swedish. I think it is just an indicator of much bigger problems in the economy of developed countries. At some point they decided to let big companies borrow more money to cover inefficiency of their management. But sooner or later the price had to be paid for that. And it looks like the time is nigh.
And yeah, there will always be some CEO or president or central banker ready to make next step towards the drop because it is much easier than to start climbing up.
Europe was a major tech-hub, and then lost it
Europe then became a major mobile hub, and then lost it too
Now I guess it’s the turn of their cars
I was just reading today an article about Mercedes, Volkswagen and BMW spending billions to expand in China
> On September 4th, the Mercedes-Benz Group announced their intention to invest more than 14 billion yuan (2 billion USD) with local partners to expand its product lineup in China. Starting from 2025, Mercedes-Benz will begin production of the China-exclusive all-electric long-wheelbase CLA model, long-wheelbase GLE SUV, and a new luxury electric MPV based on the VAN.EA platform.
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Other German auto giants are also increasing their investments in China. Volkswagen invested 2.7 billion USD to expand their Volkswagen Anhui operations. They are also in the midst of building two new EV models in collaboration with Xpeng. BMW, similarly, is investing an additional 20 billion yuan (2.8 billion USD) in its Shenyang production base. Its the total investment in the plant rose up to 105 billion yuan (14.7 billion USD).
https://carnewschina.com/2024/09/05/mercedes-commits-to-china-with-a-2-billion-usd-investment-to-compete-with-local-rivals/
It would be funny if those abandoned German factories were bought by the Chinese
Give back all subsides you get from goverment/EU and then go ahed move your business to china. Its time to finally regulate all those grants big corporations get from years. You got benefits from goverment – you need to pay if off. Its so fck up that they privatise profits but socialize losses.
I would never in a trillion years support a company that abandons thousands of its workers in europe just so that they can make a quick buck in china. Not to mention that their already diminishing quality control will go furher down the shitter.
It’s the pricing. For example, ID7 in Portugal starts at €61k., and its pretty basic.
You can get a Model Y for €45k (RW) full options.
Alright looks like it’s time to go full public infrastructure
Import tariffs should resolve that, unless they want to just lose the entire European market.
Damn. Yes do that. Pass the whole technology to China. Fuck it. Who cares if they copy cat your solutions. Clever idea mr ceo
Buy those factories, hire the people recently fired, create a new public car manufacturer. Stop giving subsidies to VW.
Go down wankers, no sane german will miss you! 😙