Volkswagen's shocking announcement & the future of auto workers | industry expert insights

[@Jon-Truscott]

Why the enormous subtitles? Annoying and distracting.

[@charleswillcock3235]

A lot of words being spoken but the issue is VW are years behind Tesla on manufacturing batteries and software. That's the issue.

[@andredeklerk1069]

The issue is western companies, Tesla included, are behind Chinese EV manufacturers.

[@bunsw2070]

And Tesla is years behind BYD.

[@jolive3743]

Stellantis are no better according to my cousins in Italy

[@johnlesoudeur3653]

This is unwatchable with the words flying on and off. Stick to subtitles being added if rquired.

[@wj82liz]

it is quite easy to understand, if you are not aggressively innovative and extremely hardworking , you will go out of the business very quickly… that’s punishment for VW not waking up earlier enough and taking proper actions…

[@Dani-it5sy]

It's VW that is going down. They are already going over to only EVs soon. I'm Norway they have stopped selling anything else but EVs. Just me knows of about 5 people that wanted to buy a new VW, had the money in their hands but VW refused to sell them. They went to Toyota instead. Should have done that in the first place but that's a different story. They are driving themselves into the ground.

[@kaimingraymondchoi9909]

Volkswagen had been spolied by the Chinese market. They made huge profits from it and they closed a blind eye over development. My wife had a Tiguan for more than 10 years and we have decided to buy her a new car. She doesn't like to adapt to new technology, so we get her a new Tiguan. After over ten years, improvements are minimal. No improvement in terms of fuel consumption. It is running at 10-12l per 100km in the city. While cars in China are talking 3,4,5, 6 litres. It has a voice command function, but even the sales person said it is not functioning properly. It has an auto parking function, but the salesman suggest us don't bother, it's too slow. Western countries tried to curb the development of Chinese EV's by putting heavy tariffs on Chinese cars. It is useless. Today all motor companies are international. Assuming the tariff could reduce Chinese cars sales to the western countries, it could not stop sales to other countries. When international sales of German cars drops, they lost the economy of scale and possible the road to survive.

[@sventhompson]

This stuff is all contrived... Toyota sees this.

[@piggypiggypig1746]

Those chairs look uncomfortable. Designed to fit a person with a small build, like a women. No man would have chosen those.

[@JamesPink-j2k]

Come rediculously late to the party and this is the result. Insisting your current products are relevant is OK if they are...