“The reductions amount to about 11 percent of the automaker’s European workforce, with Germany and the UK hardest hit,” the report continues.
Ford will continue to retain 3,400 employees, but the cuts have come because the auto giant is relying on American technology and adapting it to the European market.
“There is significantly less work to be done on drivetrains moving out of combustion engines. We are moving into a world with fewer global platforms where less engineering work is necessary. This is why we have to make the adjustments,” Martin Sander, a Ford executive in Europe, said.
One of the factors that play into the switch to EVs and whether that switch will actually create jobs is that EV manufacturing is somewhat less labor-intensive.
These car companies are committing economic suicide. But they’ll find out soon enough.
I predict that the biggest automaker with the most sales in the future, will be the one that continues to make fossil-fuel (internal combustion engine) cars.
A new industry will evolve to solve the EV problems for which there is no cure today, and that is, how to put our the fires from EV batteries. It seems that EVs are just being left to burn completely since their fires are difficult to contain or put out.
I’d be fine with all of this if it was market driven and not driven by idiotic governments due to a fictional problem.