The shutdown will be introduced from 9 to 27 January 2023 and will affect the production of the Volkswagen Golf. The plant also produces Tiguan, Touran and is preparing to start assembling the electric ID.3, as well as a new “battery” model, which will hit the market in the second half of the decade.
Short shifts at Volkswagen’s main plant are being forced by component shortages due to the disruption of supply chains following the coronavirus pandemic and events in Ukraine. In early December, Schäfer said the Wolfsburg site produces fewer than 400,000 cars a year, which isn’t even 50 percent of its capacity. About 60,000 workers work in the plant.
