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| The impact of electric vehicles on the European car market |
The auto industry has changed dramatically in recent years. This task, which requires dozens of workers, can be accomplished with just a few robots, and has probably been clearly demonstrated at Volkswagen's newest electric car plant in Zviko, Germany.
In fact, the global trend is favoring electric cars and the internal combustion engine as everyone interested in the automotive sector seems to be disappearing. European countries are perhaps the most interested in switching to electric cars today.
Norway has decided to switch to fully electric cars in 2025. The UK rated this year as 2030 while the entire European Union, including 27 countries, set this year as 2035.
People working in the European car market face a big problem. With more than 3.7 million manufacturing jobs in the sector, the current transition to electric vehicles, on the one hand, and the transition to robotics, on the other, are both at great risk.
The automaker may have been forced to do this rather than do it. He had to invest millions of euros in developing these technologies, led of course by Volkswagen. However, no workers have been laid off so far as the new production line has retrained more than 8,500 workers.
Electric cars and Volkswagen
Volkswagen found only one solution to keep the job. Significantly increases the yield. It could be a big bet for the company because they don't know the rate of demand in the future. But Volkswagen's bet appears to be correct. From 2018 to 2020, the demand for electric vehicles has doubled dramatically.
In general, Volkswagen has held its position very well in this market. behind Tesla in this market. However, the process of manufacturing electric cars usually does not require a large number of workers. That's why Volkswagen depends on its employees to make more products.
Ironically, the workers who installed the exhaust system now connect the electrical connection to the battery.
European car market
Volkswagen is rich and can be considered the backbone of the entire German automobile industry. But a small company has nothing that big company has.
More than 10,000 small and medium-sized companies produce auto parts, 1,200 of which are in Germany. These companies manufacture components such as fuel tanks and gearboxes.
These companies employ 1.7 million workers in the European Union, and according to CLEPA, these companies' business models have been hit hard. Since electric cars do not require most of these components, the components do not wear out and do not need to be replaced regularly.
Cars are Germany's best-selling and most exported products, with the country exporting cars worth 300 billion euros annually. Millions of jobs are linked to this market. There is no doubt that moving away from classic cars to the use of electric cars will have a negative impact on this.
Electric vehicles can be beneficial to the environment and reduce human dependence on oil, but the decision to impose reliance on electric vehicles is usually unsuccessful. This issue should be better handled by the European Union.