BERLIN — Volkswagen will halt manufacturing this week at two EV crops in Germany after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine hit deliveries of elements.
Manufacturing of VW, Audi and Cupra compact battery-electric vehicles constructed on the VW Group’s MEB platform will probably be affected.
The automaker will halt manufacturing at its Zwickau plant from Tuesday to Friday and at its manufacturing facility in Dresden from Wednesday to Friday, a VW spokesman informed Automotive Information Europe by electronic mail.
“The Volkswagen Group’s international provider community, which includes greater than 40,000 suppliers, additionally contains some suppliers in western Ukraine,” the assertion stated. “As a result of present state of affairs on this area, there could also be disruptions within the provide chain.”
Amongst different elements, deliveries {of electrical} cable harnesses produced in Ukraine have come to a halt.
The Zwickau manufacturing facility builds the VW ID3, VW ID4, VW ID5, Audi This autumn etron and Cupra Born electrical vehicles. The Dresden manufacturing facility additionally builds the ID3.
Zwickau is at present Volkswagen’s most vital European EV manufacturing location.
Nearly 1,200 electrical vehicles of the assorted manufacturers are usually manufactured in Zwickau a day, in keeping with a report in German enterprise newspaper Handelsblatt.
VW Group CEO Herbert Diess stated on Friday that the automaker has created a task force to evaluate the doable penalties of the Ukraine disaster on the corporate.
The corporate is already coping with the affect of semiconductor shortages on its manufacturing, particularly at its residence plant in Wolfsburg, which builds the VW Golf its best-selling mannequin.
Final 12 months, 330,000 fewer vehicles have been in-built Wolfsburg, the lowest figure since 1958.