{"id":353966,"date":"2026-05-18T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/vw-significantly-cuts-overcapacity-in-germany\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:00:06","slug":"vw-significantly-cuts-overcapacity-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/vw-significantly-cuts-overcapacity-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"VW significantly cuts overcapacity in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/05\/vw-significantly-cuts-overcapacity-in-germany.jpg' alt='electrive'><br \/>Volkswagen agreed with Germany\u2019s IG Metall union at the end of 2024 to cut domestic production capacity by more than 700,000 vehicles and has now largely completed the reduction. Meanwhile, Xpeng confirmed talks with Volkswagen about the use of a plant in Europe. <a href=https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2026\/05\/18\/vw-significantly-cuts-overcapacity-in-germany\/ target='_blank'>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volkswagen agreed with Germany\u2019s IG Metall union at the end of 2024 to cut domestic production capacity by more than 700,000 vehicles and has now largely completed the reduction. Meanwhile, Xpeng confirmed talks with Volkswagen about the use of a plant in Europe&#8230;. <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/vw-significantly-cuts-overcapacity-in-germany\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":353967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}