Volkswagen To Shut Four German Plants By 2034 Explained

• Leaked supervisory board documents schedule factory closures: Emden and Zwickau in 2031, Hanover in 2032, and Neckarsulm in 2034.
• The ID.4 successor is slated to move to Skoda’s Mladá Boleslav plant in the Czech Republic.
• Roughly 140,000 jobs are reportedly at risk in Volkswagen’s broader restructuring.

Volkswagen’s Emden plant switched entirely to the ID.4 in 2022, then added the ID.7 sedan, betting its future on electric assembly lines. Now that bet is the reason the plant may go dark first.

Leaked supervisory board documents, first reported by WirtschaftsWoche, lay out a schedule to end production at Emden and Zwickau in 2031, Hanover in 2032, and Audi’s Neckarsulm plant in...