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Volkswagen plans to decide this year on a site in the United States to assemble its proposed Scout brand electric trucks and SUVs, Diess said. The company is assessing "brownfield sites and some greenfield locations," he said, using terms for existing manufacturing facilities and open fields where completely new factories could be built.
BobbyD wrote:Volkswagen plans to decide this year on a site in the United States to assemble its proposed Scout brand electric trucks and SUVs, Diess said. The company is assessing "brownfield sites and some greenfield locations," he said, using terms for existing manufacturing facilities and open fields where completely new factories could be built.
So they've only got to engineer the platform, design the pick up, secure a site, build the factory, secure supply chains and get to production. Even money it beats the CT to market?
odysseus2000 wrote:BobbyD wrote:Volkswagen plans to decide this year on a site in the United States to assemble its proposed Scout brand electric trucks and SUVs, Diess said. The company is assessing "brownfield sites and some greenfield locations," he said, using terms for existing manufacturing facilities and open fields where completely new factories could be built.
So they've only got to engineer the platform, design the pick up, secure a site, build the factory, secure supply chains and get to production. Even money it beats the CT to market?
Only evens!
I thought someone of your confidence in VW would be offering at least 100 to 1.
Regards,
Itsallaguess wrote:Elon Musk cuts one in ten jobs at Tesla after ‘super bad feeling’ about the economy -
Elon Musk has ordered Tesla to cut 10pc of jobs worldwide after saying he has a "super bad feeling about the economy".
The electric car-maker’s chief executive also ordered an immediate hiring freeze in an email to staff sent on Thursday, which was seen by Reuters.
Around 100,000 staff are employed by Tesla around the world, according to its annual US Stock Exchange Commission filing.
Mr Musk’s directive to shed 10pc of staff comes after he told Tesla staff their current work from home arrangements are effectively over. He tweeted earlier this week that remote workers "should pretend to work elsewhere".
Remote work can continue at Tesla, subject to staff spending at least 40 hours a month in the office. Some have interpreted this as a tacit nod to hybrid working, where staff split their time between homeworking and the office.
Mr Musk has previously said the US was “probably” in recession, telling a conference in Miami in late May: “It’ll probably be some tough going for, I don’t know, a year, maybe 12-18 months.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/06/03/elon-musk-cuts-one-ten-jobs-tesla-super-bad-feeling-economy/
In a week where Musk has also been telling his working-from-home employees that they should only WFH after doing 40 in-office hours per week, these two situations might not be completely unrelated...
Cheers,
Itsallaguess
BobbyD wrote:
You've got 40 hours per month and 40 hours per week.
The per week figure is what was widely reported.
Itsallaguess wrote:
It's 40 hours per week, and that was the figure that was even reported by the Telegraph themselves in an earlier article about that particular email, so I'm not quite sure how they can get it so wrong in their latest 10% staff cut article -
More than 750 Tesla owners have complained to US safety regulators that cars operating on the automaker’s partially automated driving systems have suddenly stopped on roadways for no apparent reason.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration revealed the number in a detailed information request letter to Tesla that was posted on Friday on the agency’s website.
The 14-page letter dated 4 May asks the automaker for all consumer and field reports it has received about false braking, as well as reports of crashes, injuries, deaths and property damage claims. It also asks whether the company’s “full self driving” and automatic emergency braking systems were active at the time of any incident.
Itsallaguess wrote:....Elon Musk has ordered Tesla to cut 10pc of jobs worldwide.....
NotSure wrote:Itsallaguess wrote:
....Elon Musk has ordered Tesla to cut 10pc of jobs worldwide.....
Tesla goes ex-growth....? Down by 10% today, coincidentally or otherwise.
It's priced for massive and sustained growth (until it exceeds all other car manufacturers put together, and then some). Now with less workers? More robots perhaps?
At the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles (VWCV) brand’s main plant in Hannover, where production of the ID. Buzz Cargo[1] has already begun, serial production of the ID. Buzz[1] is now starting. Josef Baumert, Member of the VWCV Brand Management Board for Production and Logistics, and Stavros Christidis, Chairman of the VWCV Works Council, celebrated the start of ID. Buzz production along with many employees. Alongside Zwickau and Emden, Hannover is Volkswagen’s third electric vehicle site in Germany where the ID. family vehicles are being produced.
BobbyD wrote:Ok, I've lost count....At the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles (VWCV) brand’s main plant in Hannover, where production of the ID. Buzz Cargo[1] has already begun, serial production of the ID. Buzz[1] is now starting. Josef Baumert, Member of the VWCV Brand Management Board for Production and Logistics, and Stavros Christidis, Chairman of the VWCV Works Council, celebrated the start of ID. Buzz production along with many employees. Alongside Zwickau and Emden, Hannover is Volkswagen’s third electric vehicle site in Germany where the ID. family vehicles are being produced.
https://www.automotiveworld.com/news-re ... lli-plant/
odysseus2000 wrote:this is a commodity space, not one that is likely to drive good margins for VW even if they can reach their manufacturing goals.
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