So when Volkswagen announced in 2018 that it would convert its Zwickau factory, the largest private employer in the area, to manufacture nothing but electric vehicles, it was a big deal.
“A lot of people were skeptical,” said Michael Fuchs, who has worked at the factory for more than a quarter century.
They wondered, “What’s going to happen?” he said.
Volkswagen shut down assembly lines churning out its popular Golf hatchbacks and converted the factory, which has its own exit on the autobahn, to make six electric models.
The remodeled plant can produce a car a minute, shipping them out by train.
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Volkswagen
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Zwickau, Germany’s, Detroit