volkswagen groups china unit said on thursday it has shut a plant it jointly runs with faw group in the city of tianjin as well as a component factory due to recent covid19 outbreaks there due to the recent covid19 outbreaks both the fawvw vehicle plant and vw automatic transmission tianjin component factory have been shut down since monday a spokesperson told reuters both plants have conducted covid 19 testing twice for all employees this week and are waiting for the results we hope to resume production very soon and catch up with lost production the top priority remains the health and wellbeing of our employees advt tianjin in northern china around 100 km 62 miles from the capital beijing reported 41 domestically transmitted infections with confirmed symptoms on wednesday up from 33 a day earlier data from the national health commission showed on thursdayalso readvolkswagen aims to double electric car sales in china this year after missing targetsvolkswagen group which alongside its own brand owns other marques such as audi lamborghini and porsche sold 33 million cars in china last year down 14 wollenstein said the company aims to boost that number by around 15 or roughly 500000 units this year though he said this also depended on the chip supply situationsee more detailsfinally volkswagen brings back the microbus with a batteryvolkswagen chief executive herbert diess tweeted on thursday the legend returns on 030922 the tweet contained a sketch of the profile of the idbuzz vansee more detailsvolkswagen doubles deliveries of electric vehicles in 2021 drives ahead as bev manufacturerthe oem recorded a significant increase in deliveries of electric vehicles particularly in the united states china and germany a total of 77100 bevs up 437 were delivered in china including more than 70000 from the id family making volkswagen one of the five biggest bev providers in china additionally close to 17000 bevs were sold in the united states almost twenty times more than in the previous year this brought volkswagen up to fourth place among bev manufacturers the company said see more details reuters published on jan 13 2022 at 0254 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etauto app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app volkswagen china volkswagen ag vw china plants auto production car production vehicle plant closed volkswagen cars homenewsvolkswagen china shuts two plants in tianjin due to covid19 outbreaks