Weak Demand Leads VW to Temporarily Halt Production at EV Plants
German automaker Volkswagen has revealed that it is pausing EV production at two manufacturing plants in response to weak electric vehicle demand. The carmaker will suspend production at the Zwickau and Dresden facilities for a week in October and plans to cut the working week at an EV production plant in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, by one day. Volkswagen joins a growing number of automakers who have paused or scaled back battery electric vehicle (BEV) production due to low market demand. While Chinese automakers can now produce and sell their electric cars at incredibly low costs, Western automakers still spend more…