Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume told reporters that producing a majority of cars in Germany before exporting them all over the world “doesn’t work anymore.”
Volkswagen CEO Oliver Blume told reporters that producing a majority of cars in Germany before exporting them all over the world “doesn’t work anymore.”
Chinese manufacturers can make cars in China too, easier an cheaper, especially after such ‘technology transfer’ (they learn a lot manufacturing for someone else). And then the western companies cry about ‘unfair competition’.
The funny thing is, I guarantee you right here and now that none of those cost savings will make it into the price of the final product.
And Tesla already walked right into that one. They produced their cars in China, starting up an ecosystem for EV parts, and that gave dozens of new Chinese car manufacturers the means to start up to become cheaper and more innovative. Now Tesla’s sales are dropping and dropping there.
So of course Volkswagen is there to say “we can do that too”.
China will learn how to cheat NOS emissions!?
They went straight to BEV.