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Taycan Turbo: The vehicle is the first purely electrically powered vehicle from Porsche
PorscheWorks council chief Werner Weresch calls for long-term security of jobs and locations in the Stuttgart area. “That is why we are looking to talk to the company over the next few weeks in order to secure the workforce and the Zuffenhausen and Weissach locations for the next ten years,” Weresch told the German Press Agency. The works council wants to extend the safeguarding of the location and employment in the main plant. It runs until the end of July 2020 and excludes redundancies.
According to the company, 13,500 people work in Stuttgart and almost 7,000 in the Weissach development center. There are around 31,000 employees in Germany. The works council sees no reason for job cuts at the Volkswagen subsidiary. “There is currently no cause for concern that Porsche is threatening similar things personnel cuts like other car makers. It looks good at the moment. “The conversion of the business towards electromobility but also involve risks that are not predictable. In addition, there are economic uncertainties due to the smoldering trade conflicts and the planned exit of Great Britain from the EU, which could have a negative impact.
Weresch said: “We are still hiring at the site to put the transition to electromobility on a good footing.” In the course of the production of the first Taycan electric model in the main plant, the workforce was increased. “If there should be any further model variants of the Taycan, they have to be built here at the headquarters,” said the head of the works council. The successor to Porsche’s first electric sports car must also be produced there and developed in the development center in Weissach. “This corresponds to the spirit of securing the future, which we completed in June 2016 to bring the Taycan to Weissach and Zuffenhausen.”
By 2025, more than half of the newly registered Porsche models with electric drive should be on the road. By 2022, the sports car manufacturer will have invested six billion euros in the development and production of electric cars.
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