in midfebruary while automakers like general motors bmw toyota volvo have announced that their plants in china have reopened from early april including the in the wuhan province as well from where the virus outbreak beganvolkswagen has restarted manufacturing at 32 of its 33 plants in chinaauto plants in europe returning to normalcywhile the chinese plants are on the path of returning to their normal operations in europe too several automakers have started limited production in their plants in europe due to the production suspension at auto plants around onemillion jobs have been affected directly or indirectly overall production losses are estimated at more than twomillion vehicles in the continenttoyota resumed production at its french facility on april 22 after a monthlong shutdown the japanese automaker also reopened its poland facility on thursday but at reduced capacity at the beginning worlds biggest automaker volkswagen has restarted operations in zwickau in germany which is the first assembly plant in the country to restart operationsaudi too has restarted its engine plant in gyor hungary on april 21 however the luxury carmaker of the volkswagen group is yet to resume its car production in the country the car plants in the uk turkey and czech republic are likely to commence operations on may 4tata motorsowned jaguar land rover on thursday has announced that it will gradually resume production at its solihull facility in the uk as well as in slovakia and austria too from may 18among others hyundai has restarted output from its car plant in the czech republic while renault has reopened its portugal plant the french carmakers romanian facility is likely to resume operation soon volvo cars has announced that it plants in sweden and belgium have restarted work on april 20daimlers contract manufacturer magna steyr too has restarted production of the mercedes gclass luxury suv at its site in austria last week italian sportscar manufacturer ferrari one of the first carmakers to close its plants too is preparing to roll out cars from its maranello facilityford gm and fca shut their operations in the us due to the coronavirus pandemic aim to restart at least some of their plants in the country by early may ford fca gm and uaw in discussion to restart operations in usthe three major usbased automakers ford fiat chrysler automobiles fca and general motors are in discussion with united automobile workers uaw to safely restart operations in their us plantsall the three automakers that shut their operations in the us due to the coronavirus pandemic aim to restart at least some of their plants in the country by early may however there will be protocols like screening cleaning and social distancing at their plants once operations commenceamong others volkswagen has announced that it will restart operations at the chattanooga plant on may 3 by mainak das etauto published on apr 24 2020 at 0741 am ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1