Building cars in Germany is expensive: the average salary of a VW employee in Wolfsburg is the equivalent of $80,000, compared with an average of $20,000 at VW's factory in Puebla, Mexico.

citing sluggish car demand, rising labour expenses, raw material shortages, and delays in the shift to electric vehicles. The Wolfsburg strike began with the works council sharply criticising ...

The Volkswagen complex in Wolfsburg [Photo ... is therefore particularly affected by the cutbacks. The electric car factory in Saxony is only supposed to build the Audi Q4 e-tron.