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Volkswagen CEO Herbert Deiss (Herbert Diess) said in a statement to the company's supervisory board that Volkswagen is considering cutting 30, 000 jobs in order to cut costs and improve market competitiveness, so as to better compete with competitors such as Tesla, Sina Science and Technology quoted the German business newspaper as saying. In response, Volkswagen Group spokesman Michael Manske said: "the discussion in this area is already under way, we already have a lot of good ideas, but we do not have a specific implementation plan." In view of the emergence of new market entrants, there is no doubt that we must address the competitiveness of the Wolfsburg plant. " A spokesman for the Volkswagen Workers' Committee said there was no comment on the speculation that "Deiss made the above remarks", but that "cutting 30,000 jobs is absurd and groundless".

It is understood that Volkswagen Group's main factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, due to the lack of core, will face the lowest production figure this year, which may be lower than the level of 2020. Volkswagen's Wolfsburg plant in Germany has an annual capacity of 800000 vehicles, which currently takes about 20 hours to produce a golf or road view. Herbert Dis, chief executive of Volkswagen, has said: it is hoped that the efficiency of this factory in producing pure electric cars can compete with companies such as Tesla, so Volkswagen will transform the plant to improve production efficiency. According to Volkswagen's early electric car plan, Volkswagen will add about 50 pure battery-powered cars by 2030.

According to relevant data, Volkswagen delivered 231600 pure electric vehicles in 2020, three times the number delivered in 2019. A total of 190500 plug-in hybrids were sold, up 175 per cent from a year earlier.

As we all know, Tesla is in a leading position in the field of electric vehicles in the world. According to relevant data, Tesla's total annual sales in 2020 was 499550 vehicles. Sales in China are 143800, of which domestic Model 3 accounts for 94 per cent. Volkswagen said it aims to more than double the delivery of electric vehicles to 1 million this year and become the global market leader in electric vehicles by 2025 at the latest, according to Bloomberg. Volkswagen aims to increase sales of all-electric vehicles in Europe to 60% of its total sales by 2030. Some analysts believe that Tesla is the world's leading electric car manufacturer. Although its sales are far ahead of its competitors, Volkswagen Group, with its large scale and numerous brands, will certainly surpass Tesla in the future. However, in addition to Tesla, Volkswagen will also face competition from SAIC and BYD. In terms of the current market, Tesla's products still have strong market competitiveness.

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