Volkswagen Due to the new exhaust gas measurement cycles after the plant holidays, production at the parent plant in Wolfsburg can be rested on one to two days a week. This measure will be introduced immediately after the plant holidays in late July and is scheduled for the end of September, it said on Tuesday in a statement of the company on the intranet. “Switching to the new WLTP test cycle is a feat of strength and, as previously announced, will result in temporary production capacity outages from August onwards.”
Other works are affected as well. For example, some isolated closing days were scheduled at the Zwickau location for the third quarter, and some were also canceled, it said. The driving style of the component factories should be adapted to the requirements of the respective vehicle plants to be supplied.
Regardless of the exhaust gas measurement cycle, there will also be closing days at the Emden plant in the third and fourth quarters, VW said. Reason there is a difficult market situation in the middle class segment, of which Volkswagen is particularly affected as a market leader. Volkswagen had already announced at the beginning of June that the production tapes were likely to be temporarily stopped due to the new test procedure (WLTP).
Sports car manufacturer Porsche has even stopped the sale of all new cars until further notice, like the F.A.Z. Exclusively reported in early June , The background to this is the changeover to the new exhaust gas measuring cycles WLTP and RDE, which entail stricter requirements both in the approval procedure on the test bench and in real day-to-day operation. They apply gradually from September of this year. Gasoline engines can usually meet these limits only if they are equipped with a particulate filter.