Volkswagen is cancelling a no-layoffs pledge and won't rule out closing plants in Germany
Germany's Volkswagen says auto industry headwinds mean it can't rule out plant closings in its home country - and is dropping a longstanding job protection pledge in force since 1994 that would have barred layoffs through 2029. “The European automotive in...
Anyone buying a Chinese lithium fire bomb on wheels needs their head examined.
These cars could be weaponised to burst into flames at the whim of the CCP, causing chaos and destruction.
A single one of these decimated a multi level car park in my city, it was all hushed up, because electric cars are good for the environment.
Or just randomly bursts into flames sitting in a garage without any intervention.
They are that poorly made.
You're closer than you think you might be.
After I was in an accident in my Toyota RAV4 hybrid a year ago, a voice started talking to me.
A call centre had been alerted to the crash automatically, a lady was asking me in an English accent if I wanted emergency services. She had my precise location.
I was not made aware of that “feature” when I bought the car. They can shut down, start, control steering remotely on ALL modern cars.
Is it a stretch to believe they can cause an overload in the battery that makes it go on fire? We all know how volatile lithium is.
If you have a car with manual transmission, that negates 90% the shit they can pull.
I am ok with them sleeping in the bed they helped make...
9/10 Volkswagens did Nazi this coming at all.
Everything in my life is corrupted - VW, Audi, Ducati....And that's just vehicles.
VW is not a normal company. 20% of VW shares belong to the state of Lower Saxony. No matter who is currently in power in Lower Saxony, politics dominates everything in the Group. The core employees have an employment guarantee until 2029. This does not apply to temporary contracts. This employment guarantee may now be about to be abolished.
The trade unions are traditionally extremely strong. This is due to the fact that Lower Saxony was and to some extent still is deeply social democratic. There are four production plants in Lower Saxony as well as the our Hanover production plant for commercial vehicles. The latter is focused on the all-electric ID-Buzz, which nobody wants to buy. Ultimately, this plant is likely to be closed, as contract production for other brands has now completely collapsed, mainly due to the massive increase in energy costs and high wages. Osnabrück is also likely to be wound up. The closure modalities for the production plant in Brussels are currently being negotiated.
As the massive political influence cannot be eliminated, it is to be expected that the still global group will collapse in the near future.
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Takes a producer and a consumer to fuck shit up here.
The producer doing everything possible promote their brand to 0.3% of the population.
The consumer rightly doesn’t give a fuck about them (or apparently their own countrymen) anymore.
Maybe they should try laying off everyone not directly responsible for designing and building cars and see what happens.
You know they won’t, you know they’ll slowly downsize the line while protecting the desk jobs and leeches as long as possible.