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Audi wants to end the production of gasoline and diesel cars at its main plant in six years.
In just three years, half of all vehicles built in Ingolstadt should be fully electric, and "from 2028 only electric cars will roll off the assembly line in Ingolstadt," said a spokeswoman.
Works council chief Peter Mosch told the “Augsburger Allgemeine” (Friday) that electrification in the main plant would only start in 2023 with the mid-range SUV Q6 e-tron: “This is the first fully electric volume model to roll off the assembly line in Ingolstadt.” first pre-production models built, said the Audi spokeswoman. But then it should counter: “Then comes the electric successor to the A6, the E6. The electric successors to today's A3 and A4 combustion engines, which are manufactured in Ingolstadt, will follow by 2029, ”said Works Council Chairman Mosch.
At the Neckarsulm site, on the other hand, the next generation of the A4 / A5 and A6 / A7 families will be launched in the coming years. "With these volume models, the site will be fully utilized for the next few years," said the Audi spokeswoman. "From the middle of the decade, all-electric models will gradually be established in Neckarsulm." This will then also include the second generation of the E6. From 2033 Audi only wants to build combustion cars in China.
Mosch said that the agreed reduction of around 7,500 net jobs in Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm would continue.
"As part of this program, jobs are still being cut, mainly through partial retirement and early retirement."
He reckons that "we will be able to keep an average of around 40,000 employees in Ingolstadt in 2030, but it could meanwhile also be 38,000 or 39,000 employees." According to Audi, a good 42,500 employees currently work in Ingolstadt and 15,600 in Neckarsulm.
jso / dpa