“VW work council expects loss of 25,000 jobs because of e-cars”

VW’s work council believes the switch to electric mobility will lead to the loss of up to 25,000 jobs within ten years, reports Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. But new jobs will be created in areas such as software development and mobility services, Bernd Osterloh, the council’s head, said. Osterloh ruled out enforced redundancies.
In a commentary in the same newspaper, Martin Gropp claims electrification and digitalisation might pose the biggest challenges for Germany’s car industry since the invention of the automobile.

Read the article in German here.  

For background on the challenges for German carmakers in a new mobility world, read the new CLEW dossier The Energiewende and German carmakers.

Find more background on VW plans in the factsheet Dieselgate forces VW to embrace green mobility.