A New York Times piece describes the transition to EVs, and what it means for jobs, at a sprawling Volkswagen plant in Zwickau, Germany.
The massive, worldwide transition to electric-powered vehicles is about more than changes in mechanical parts, or about the societal effect of abandoning the century-old habit of finding and burning gasoline.
In the case of Zwickau, the paper dispatched veteran reporter Jack Ewing to describe how the conversion, announced six years ago, would affect the more than 10,000 people who worked for Volkswagen and “tens of thousands more for suppliers.” Buying habits, especially in Europe, can be unpredictable; the best selling EV on the continent is a Tesla Model Y. Last year, the story says, Volkswagen sold fewer than half as many of its equivalent SUV, the ID.4, according to Schmidt Automotive Research. Disappointing sales “have prompted Volkswagen to cut a shift on one of its two assembly lines in Zwickau, where the company makes the ID.4, the ID.5, two Audi models and two small electric cars.
As for Zwickau, it’s an elemental place in automotive history; it’s where August Horch, who died in 1951, built cars that rivaled German competitors like Mercedes-Benz in style and prestige. He started a new company in the former East Germany in 1909, also called Horch, but was compelled through legal actions to change the name. Horch’s solution was clever. The family name, which means “hear” in German, was replaced by its Latin equivalent: Audi.
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