Last week Volkswagen said that its factory in Zwickau, Germany, resumed production of the ID.3 electric hatchback. VW will restart its Chattanooga factory to resume car production on May 4, just like Tesla is reopening its Nevada, Fremont and NY gigafactories on May 4.
Volkswagen said that its factory in Zwickau, Germany, resumed production of the ID.3 electric hatchback on Thursday, but at a much-reduced speed and with new measures in place to protect workers’s health.
VW said that the factory will produce 50 ID.3 vehicles per day, down from about 150 per day before the pandemic forced VW to idle the plant in mid-March.
The Motley Fool reports that as a condition of reopening the factory, VW’s management and labor representatives agreed on an elaborate set of measures to protect workers concerned about the coronavirus.
“Those include specific rules on keeping distance, a requirement to wear masks whenever it’s not possible to stay at least 1.5 meters away from others, staggered shifts to reduce the number of people in the factory at any given time, and a request to workers to take their temperature every day before coming to work,” writes John Rosevear in The Motley Fool.
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