Production at Volkswagen will be suspended until the end of next week. But the company is already planning to restart. Among other things, the supply chains would have to be rebuilt. However, the company also calls for “investments in consumer behavior”.
Europe’s largest car maker Volkswagen wants to present its plans for ramping up production in Germany in a few days after the standstill in the Corona crisis. “The planning for the restart is being worked out,” said the procurement director in the Volkswagen Group, Stefan Sommer, of the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”. “We’ll introduce her after Easter.” But everything depends strongly on the requirements of politics, “and when it plans to let public life run up again”.
However, Volkswagen itself “will soon come up with a clear idea of when the plants will start up again and how the supply chains will start up again”. To do this, the supply chains would first have to be rebuilt, he said, “and at the same time the demand must be there again”.
For a new start in Germany and Europe, the Volkswagen manager believes that opening the dealerships and registration offices alone is not enough. “It takes investment in industry and investment in consumer behavior,” he said. That would be even more urgent than after the international financial crisis in 2009. At that time, the state had boosted sales with the scrappage bonus.
Volkswagen recently extended the closure of its core brand plants in Germany to April 19 due to the corona pandemic.
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