The group intends to hold on to the electric offensive.
Due to a lack of electronic components for vehicle production, the Volkswagen Group may not be able to build more than 100,000 vehicles this year. “We will fight for every car in 2021”, said VW sales director Klaus Zellmer the “Handelsblatt”. Golf production in Wolfsburg is particularly affected by the lack of chips.
Volkswagen therefore hopes for improvement in the second quarter. “But nobody can predict with absolute certainty that we will then have a complete normalization of the situation,” said Zellmer. The group intends to hold on to the electric offensive. As a result of the EU's “Green Deal”, the Volkswagen Group “will have to produce an additional 300,000 battery-powered vehicles a year in future,” said Zellmer.
