Volkswagen Burning Through $2.2 Billion A Week As Coronavirus Halts Production

Volkswagen may need to eliminate positions if the coronavirus pandemic isn't managed as the carmaker is as yet spending around 2 billion euros ($2.2 billion) seven days, Chief Executive Herbert Diess disclosed to German TV channel ZDF.

Diess told the Markus Lanz syndicated program that the German organization, which utilizes 671,000 individuals around the world, was not making any deals outside China and was searching for approaches to continue creation somewhere else that wouldn't jeopardize its staff.

"We have to reconsider creation. The order which we had in China we don't yet have at our German areas," he said.

"Just on the off chance that we, similar to China, Korea or other Asian states, get the issue leveled out then we get an opportunity to get through the emergency without work misfortunes. It requires an extremely sharp mediation," Diess said.

Request in China is getting again yet creation is just at a large portion of the level before the emergency, he said.

Volkswagen, the world's greatest automaker by vehicle deals, has 124 production lines far and wide of which 72 are in Europe, with 28 in Germany alone. It suspended creation in Europe not long ago due to the pandemic.

Volkswagen was chipping away at approaches to continue fabricating with laborers keeping up safe good ways from each other, including by venturing up cleanliness and sterilizing, Diess said.

"We are not making deals or incomes outside of China," Diess, adding that Volkswagen despite everything needed to cover an elevated level of fixed expenses of "around 2 billion euros per week", he revealed to ZDF late on Thursday.

The carmaker, which possesses the Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, Seat and Skoda brands, sold 10.96 vehicles a year ago. It makes Ducati motorbikes just as MAN and Scania trucks.