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The Audi unions demand electric model for the main German plant.
BERLIN leaders Volkswagen's Audi luxury brand work have asked management to affect the production of an all-electric model to the main plant of the car manufacturer in Germany, because they could lose as cars electrical gaining importance.
Audi next year start building its first electric mass-produced model, the sport utility vehicle e-tron quattro, in a factory in Brussels, as well as batteries that are also used in other electric vehicles EVs VW group.
VW Volkswagen main profit contributor plans to launch three electric models by 2020 and workers at the main plant in Ingolstadt Audi don t want to be left behind in the race for production.
Our basic plant must be prepared more for the future, highest representative of the work of Audi, Peter Mosch, told a gathering of 7,000 workers Wednesday at the Ingolstadt factory which employs around 43 000 people.
None of our colleagues must drop the treadmill as we move into the future, Deputy Chief Max Waecker said committee.
Rupert Stadler CEO has already said small German factory Audi in Neckarsulm, where 16,000 workers assemble the more upscale A6, A7 and A8 models, will start making the battery only vehicles around 2020.
Mosch, who sits on the VW supervisory board mother, asked management to provide specific information on how the change more electric cars and digital services will affect employment at Audi, which has 88,000 workers worldwide.
Audi has been reluctant to adopt the technology of electric drive but the success of Tesla and BMW i series arch rival electric cars Audi convinced there is a market for luxury electric car after all.
Daimler also said Wednesday that it was accelerating its electric car program.
Audi e-tron quattro, powered by three electric motors, should run over 500 km 311 miles per charge from a 95 kWh battery that can be fully recharged in about 50 minutes.
Reporting by Andreas Cremer; Editing by Victoria Bryan.
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