Volkswagen and Daimler report bottlenecks: Caught in the German electric car production hell

07/02/2018

Volkswagen and Daimler report bottlenecks trapped in German electric car production hell

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Gläserne Manufaktur in Dresden: This is where the E-Golf comes into being – in small numbers

When it comes to e-Golf, Bernd Glathe is currently out of the picture. When customers look for the electric car of Volkswagen Show stock market chart ask, must fit the boss of the Hamburg car dealer Wichert.

The car can not be ordered for him because out of stock, says Glathe and finds this “unhappy”. The interest in electric cars has been growing for months, especially among commercial customers, but now the vehicles are hardly available.

Like Glathe, many car dealers in Germany are currently involved. In the face of diesel crisis and subsidies, the demand for electric cars increased noticeably, Blamabel, however: In this long-awaited moment, the manufacturers can not keep up with the production.

US pioneer Tesla Show stock market chart apparently does not sting alone in the electric car “production hell”. So his boss Elon Musk has the difficulties with the construction of the mass market electric car Model 3 designated, Affected are – in other ways – also established German and international carmakers whose managers Tesla’s efforts smile sometimes, For the delivery bottlenecks, they are largely responsible for themselves, even if they do not always want to be true.

So has the Daimler Show stock market chartSubsidiary Smart recently admitted that buyers have to wait up to a year for their vehicle. “The increase in demand is much stronger and faster than we could expect and plan with our suppliers,” said Smart boss Annette Winkler,

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Too few vehicles of the type Ioniq electric apparently have the dealer of the importer Hyundai Show stock market chart – also waiting for a year reports the magazine “Edison”, Only a little better sees it with Renault Show stock market chart with seven to eight months delivery time for the Zoe. Customers of BMW Show stock market chart (i3) and Tesla (Model S, Model X) would only have to wait three to four months.

What is going on suddenly?

For years, politicians, environmentalists and automakers have been desperate to ask how more electric cars can be brought to German-fueled roads. One million should be there by 2020 – a goal that the Federal Government later effectively cashed. The skeptical customers are to blame for the misery, it was said at manufacturers behind closed doors.

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