Volkswagen has halted production at two of its vehicle plants in Germany following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The German automaker has shown that the crisis has affected the delivery of some electric cars from Audi, Cupra and VW supported through the MEB platform. Production at its Zwickau plant will stop Tuesday through Friday, while its Dresden plant will be closed Wednesday to Friday. Friday.
The VW Group is lately building the ID. 3, ID. 4, ID. 5, Audi Q4 e-tron and Cupra Born electric cars at its Zwickau plant, while the Dresden site also manages production of the ID. 3. The Zwickau site is VW’s largest electric vehicle production site in Europe and produces around 1200 electric cars a day.
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“The Volkswagen Group’s global supplier network, which includes more than 40,000 suppliers, also includes some suppliers in western Ukraine,” a VW spokesperson said in a statement to Auto News Europe. “Due to the existing scenario in this region, it is possible that there will be interruptions. in the source chain”.
Deliveries of electrical cable harnesses produced in Ukraine are reported to be among the parties affected by the conflict.
Last Friday, Volkswagen Group chief executive Herbert Diess said the German automaker had set up a functioning organization to assess the imaginable consequences the war could have for the company. Semiconductor shortages have also affected it until 2021 and led to the structure of 330,000 fewer cars at its Wolfsburg plant.
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