One of the world's most storied automakers now confronts the weight of its own history — decades of vertical integration, union-protected wages, and delayed adaptation have left Volkswagen carrying a workforce nearly twice the size of its leanest rivals. In early September, the company's supervisory board endorsed a plan to eliminate up to 100,000 jobs and shutter four German factories, a reckoning shaped by the rapid rise of Chinese electric vehicle makers and the slow erosion of VW's dominance in China, its largest market. The story echoes an older one: the American auto industry's failure t
VW's 630,000-strong workforce becomes existential liability as Chinese EV makers circle
Up to 100,000 job cuts planned across Volkswagen's global workforce, with tens of thousands of positions eliminated in Germany, affecting workers at VW and luxury brands Porsche and Audi.