Now the city's 90,000 people are plunging headlong into another era of change: top employer Volkswagen's total shift into electric cars at the local plant. Among the key concerns is that electric cars don't need engines and transmissions with thousands of metal parts that need to be assembled. Supplied 350 new robots are being installed to build the ID.3 electric car. Factory veteran Rainer Pilz, 59, is among those retraining the next generation of Volkswagen workers. In some ways the push into electric cars is already leading to some job cuts, analysts say, as companies seek to improve profits, without which they can't invest in new technology.

Source: Stuff May 23, 2019 19:29 UTC