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"Electromobility works" - Chancellor visits VW Emden
Despite a recent decline in demand for electric cars, Chancellor Olaf Scholz sees the German automotive industry as well-prepared for global competition.
“You can see that e-mobility works,” said the SPD chancellor candidate during a visit to the VW plant in Emden.
This is a remarkable achievement by the German automotive industry and its employees.
“In this respect, we no longer need to fear international competition (…).” Scholz further stated that he was firmly convinced that German automobile companies have shown they can withstand this global competition.
In the final stretch of the federal election campaign, Scholz visited the car factory together with Lower Saxony's Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) and social democratic representatives from the state and federal government. He himself drove up to production hall 20 in a red ID.7 - alongside him, as a passenger, was Christian Vollmer, VW board member for production and logistics.
“That was nice,” said Scholz to journalists after getting out of the car.
In the hall, the Chancellor was shown the production of electric cars during a tour, spoke with employees, and at one point lent a hand to install an insulating mat in an ID.7.
Subsidy halt for E-Cars led to a collapse in demand
In recent years, VW converted the factory during ongoing operations into a plant exclusively for e-car production – as the first plant in Lower Saxony and the second location in Germany after Zwickau. For this, the group has invested more than one billion euros in Emden since 2020, according to its own information.
About 700 vehicles would be produced per day in two shifts at the Emden plant, plant manager Enno Fehse explained to the SPD chancellor candidate.
“You could do more,” Scholz asked back.
He did not get a clear answer - but it is known that VW, like all German manufacturers, is struggling with weak sales figures and high costs for the transition to e-mobility. In Germany, the sales of e-cars plummeted overall after the abrupt halt of government subsidies at the end of 2023. The federal government justified the halt with budget constraints.
Worldwide, the automaker recorded a decline in e-car sales for its core brand VW in the past year. Accordingly, 2024 383,000 electric models of the ID family were delivered. According to earlier information, there were still around 394,000 in 2023. The result: Due to weak demand, VW had to temporarily stop the assembly lines.
```Chancellor: E-Mobility is exactly the right path
Scholz said that the vehicles produced by VW in East Frisia are in demand.
"This is exactly the right path that we have embarked on. We should now continue it as quickly as possible." For Germany, it is about further expanding the charging infrastructure in the coming years, at supermarkets, gas stations, and at home. "So that in your mind the question - where do I get the electricity from - no longer needs to be considered."
Production board member Vollmer agreed with him. He said:
"Volkswagen stands by Germany as an industrial location and Volkswagen will also continue the path to electromobility. We are counting on it."
Weil relieved about the retention of VW plants
In East Frisia, VW is one of the most important industrial employers. Like at other locations, employees in Emden recently feared for the continued existence of their plant amid the VW labor dispute.
The company and the union had agreed shortly before Christmas, after long negotiations, on a restructuring program for the ailing core brand, which envisions the reduction of 35,000 jobs in Germany by 2030. The reduction is to occur without compulsory redundancies. In the German plants that have so far been only slightly utilized, the technical capacity at the German locations is to be reduced by over 700,000 vehicles.
Scholz and Weil expressed relief that VW decided to also retain the Emden plant.
Content automatically translated.“That is a plant that I believe has a great future,” said Weil. The ID.7 is currently winning many tests and is noticeably gaining market share. “I am quite sure we will see here in Emden that really many, many great cars will roll off the production line.”
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