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Wolfsburg (dpa) - The Volkswagen main plant in Wolfsburg throttles production on several days in January due to the semiconductor shortage.
Due to the limited availability of chips, two production lines would be dormant for four days each, and the company and works council had applied for short-time work for the employees concerned, VW announced on Wednesday.
It is about the production of the Tiguan and Touran models, among other things, this Thursday the production lines will come to a standstill for the first time.
The Volkswagen brand is continuing to examine countermeasures and alternatives to limit the effects of the chip bottleneck, it said.
VW had already warned of bottlenecks and possible production cuts at individual locations in North America, Europe and China in the first quarter in mid-December.
During the slump in car sales at the beginning of the Corona crisis in spring 2020, many chip manufacturers switched their production to entertainment electronics - the car business, which had recently been improving, then felt bottlenecks.
"We have a serious problem," said works council chief Bernd Osterloh of the German press agency shortly before the turn of the year.
"There are no short-term delivery alternatives."
The day before, the works council at the VW plant in Emden had announced that there was also a risk of short-time work due to delivery problems.
A decision was still pending.
The car manufacturer Daimler has also announced short-time work for its compact car plant in Rastatt due to a lack of chips.