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Author: tjscott0   😊 😞
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Subject: VW 2 Build EVs in China
Date: 11/25/25 1:05 PM
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https://electrek.co/2025/11/25/volkswagen-build-ev...
costs by up to 50% by building EVs in China.

After opening its first Test Workshop in Hefei, China, on Tuesday, Volkswagen said for the first time that it can now develop and launch new vehicles outside of its home market.

Volkswagen claimed the new facility can slash development time by 30% while reducing costs by up to 50% by leveraging local tech and suppliers.

The German auto giant has already partnered with XPeng and Rivian to use new tech, software, and platforms for its next-generation EVs.


VW 2024 sales:
https://www.volkswagen-newsroom.com/en/press-relea...
Delivery figures for the regions around the world:

Europe: 1,254,500 deliveries (down 1.7 per cent year-on-year)*
South America: 479,400 deliveries (up 21.1 per cent year-on-year)*
North America: 592,300 deliveries (up 18.4 per cent year-on-year)*
China: 2,198,900 deliveries (down 8.3 per cent year-on-year)*


Most of VW sales are export sales. They are increasingly competing with China EVs in those markets. VW must bring manufacturing costs down & pricing too to compete.
It is unknown, to me anyway, if German factories will be closed.

Perhaps China will remain the world EV manufacturing hub.
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Author: Timer321   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: VW 2 Build EVs in China
Date: 11/25/25 1:14 PM
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China would lose it manufacturing dominance if we raised corporate taxes substantially.

We need greater reinvestment
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Author: Steve203 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: VW 2 Build EVs in China
Date: 11/25/25 1:26 PM
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It is unknown, to me anyway, if German factories will be closed.

VAG reached an agreement with the German union, a year ago, to scale back production in several German plants, including Wolfsburg. The next gen Golf, for EU sale, is slated to be built at the Puebla plant in Mexico.

Notably, a reduction in capacity of 734,000 units across German plants is planned before 2030, and the workforce will be reduced by more than 35,000 people across VW’s German locations by 2030.

The electric cars ID.3 and Cupra Born will be built in VW’s Wolfsburg plant. Golf and Golf Estate production will shift from Wolfsburg to Mexico in 2027, but an electric Golf and an electric vehicle (EV) based on the modular car platform Scalable Systems Platform (SSP) will be made in Germany around 2030.


https://eurometal.net/vw-scraps-plans-to-close-pla...

Typical "JC" approach. Take away from the production workers, while they retain their vanity, and redundant mass market, brands, with their stacks of redundant administrative overhead.

Steve
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