{"id":83742,"date":"2025-09-16T13:30:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=83742"},"modified":"2025-09-16T13:30:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:30:50","slug":"ford-blames-evs-plans-to-cut-more-jobs-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=83742","title":{"rendered":"Ford blames EVs as it plans to cut a bunch more jobs in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ford<\/a> blamed slowing demand for electric vehicles after announcing plans to slash another 1,000 jobs at its Cologne EV plant in Germany.<\/p>\n

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Ford cuts jobs in Germany over weak demand for EVs<\/h2>\n

In a press release on Thursday, Ford announced plans to cut another 1,000 jobs at its plant in Cologne, Germany.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Europe, demand for electric cars remains well below industry forecasts,\u201d the company said. Ford is blaming weak demand for EVs, saying it will move from a two-shift operation to a single-shift operation, starting in January.<\/p>\n

The proposed plans from last year include cutting about 4,000 jobs in Europe by the end of 2027, or about 14% of its European workforce. The job cuts will be primarily in Germany and the UK as part of a broader restructuring. Tuesday\u2019s announcement will raise it by another 1,000.<\/p>\n

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Earlier this year, Ford faced a historic worker strike<\/a> in Cologne that disrupted production. The news announced on Tuesday will likely affect vehicle production again.<\/p>\n

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Ford Explorer EV production in Cologne (Source: Ford)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ford currently builds electric vehicles, including the Explorer and Capri, in Cologne, but it\u2019s facing new competition from BYD and other low-cost EV makers from China.<\/p>\n

Although Ford is blaming weaker-than-expected demand for EVs, according to the latest data from the European Automobile Manufacturers\u2019 Association (ACEA), 1,011,903 battery electric vehicles (BEVs) were registered in the EU in the first seven months of 2025, led by increases in Spain (94.5%), Germany (59,2%), and Italy (60.3%). <\/p>\n

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Ford\u2019s electric vehicles in Europe from left to right: Puma Gen-E, Explorer, Capri, and Mustang Mach-E (Source: Ford)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you look at the most recent registration data from the German Federal Motor Transport Authority<\/a> (KBA), Ford registered 10,924 BEVs in Germany through August, or less than 15% of the nearly 74,000 vehicles it sold.<\/p>\n

The shortcomings come despite Ford investing nearly \u20ac2 billion ($2.4 billion) to upgrade the facility to produce electric vehicles. Ford also offers the Puma Gen-E<\/a>, the electric version of its best-selling vehicle in Europe. It was the first EV to qualify for the full \u00a33,750 ($5,000) discount from the UK\u2019s recently launched\u00a0Electric Car Grant<\/a>\u00a0program.<\/p>\n

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Ford blamed slowing demand for electric vehicles after announcing plans to slash another 1,000 jobs at its Cologne EV plant in Germany. Ford cuts jobs in Germany over weak demand for EVs In a press release on Thursday, Ford announced plans to cut another 1,000 jobs at its plant in Cologne, Germany. \u201cIn Europe, demand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}