After the abrupt end of the e-car subsidy, the Saxon car supplier network AMZ has warned of job losses. With its current economic policy, the federal government is making itself untrustworthy and destroying the automotive industry, criticized network manager Dirk Vogel on Monday. "For years, it has been preached that the ecological conversion can only succeed by switching to e-vehicles." As a result, the automotive industry has rebuilt its production at high cost.
With the discontinuation of subsidies, the purchase of these vehicles will now become even more expensive, Vogel stated. This will lead to falling sales and job losses. "The employees at the Zwickau vehicle plant and the suppliers will certainly not be grateful for this support from the federal government." Due to weakening demand, there have already been cutbacks at VW in Zwickau this year - the plant is a pure e-car factory.
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