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“As things stand at present, we have to be prepared for the fact that we will no longer be able to produce combustion vehicles here in Hanover for a few weeks from mid-September,” said a spokesman on Sunday in Hanover.
The production of the classic Transporter T6.1, which has so far accounted for the largest part of production, will then come to a complete standstill, the T7 Multivan will only be built as a plug-in hybrid. The electric bus ID is not affected. buzz
The reason is the flooding in Slovenia, which affected a supplier of engine parts. According to the group, gears for the drive train for combustion engines are now missing. In Portugal, VW had therefore already announced on Thursday that it would completely stop assembly there in Palmela near Lisbon for two months from September 11th. The small SUV T-Roc is built there. The group had already announced that there would be failures at other locations.
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