Volkswagen Group is planning to cease automobile manufacturing at its Dresden plant after greater than 20 years, Automobilwoche, a sister publication of Automotive Information Europe, reported.
The plant, the place 6,500 of the electrical ID3 fashions have been produced final 12 months, will proceed to function in some capability, and its roughly 300 staff will get different duties, Automobilewoche mentioned, with out revealing the way it received the data.
VW mentioned final week it’s chopping non permanent staff at its Zwickau web site, the principle electric-vehicle manufacturing unit in Germany, after a phaseout of a subsidy within the nation brought on demand for its EVs to drop.
The destiny of round 2,000 further non permanent workers stays unsure.