The carmaker Volkswagen is ramping up production in its Zwickau e-car factory back to three-shift operation. “The supply of parts is now so stable again that we now have additional capacity in Zwickau with the third shift to process the high order backlog,” Managing Director Stefan Loth informed on Monday. As a result, production is now expected to increase to up to 1,300 vehicles per day.
The company hopes so, the demand for electric cars to breastfeed better. On average, the delivery times for the ID models are currently eight to ten months. Depending on the model and equipment, however, buyers also have to wait significantly longer for their new electric car.
The car manufacturers have been plaguing for a long time lack of semiconductors. The War in the Ukraine also had more supply chains
for individual parts, so that production at the Zwickau VW plant was interrupted for around three weeks in March. After that, the assembly line ran there only in the early and late shifts, which meant that around 900 vehicles could be produced per day. According to the information, the loss was compensated for by short-time work.
On Monday evening, the factory gates should now open again for the night shift, whose work begins at 10 p.m. Volkswagen is counting on the fact that there will be no new interruptions to the three-shift operation until the end of July when the company is on vacation.
The plant in Zwickau, with a permanent workforce of around 9,000 men and women, is a pioneer in the production of electric cars at VW. In addition to the ID.3, ID.4 and ID.5 models, e-cars for the group’s subsidiaries are also made there Audi and Seat manufactured. In May, the production of electric cars also began in Emden, the first VW location in Lower Saxony.