Volkswagen AG is asking workers to walk through an escape room with collaborative games and puzzles to ease safety anxiety on tasks when switching to electric cars.
Europe’s largest carmaker, with an €89 billion ($95 billion) investment in new technologies through 2026, is the allocation at its Wolfsburg headquarters to help shift around 22,000 employees to electric vehicle manufacturing. The first is around 1200 employees assigned to paint on the ID. 3 electric model, which is expected to start production at this time part of this year.
“This is a building block of the procedure of introducing personnel to the world of electric mobility,” said Gunnar Kilian, VW’s head of human resources, a presentation of the site, co-designed and built through the staff. “For many, it’s a completely new thing that the combustion engine is no longer there and we want to exercise other people for a high-voltage environment. “
In groups of four, workers will have to solve puzzles by moving through spaces related to electric power and battery technology, moving from an 1860s living room to existing, long-lasting scenarios that require technical skills to crack codes and locate clues in lockers. Earlier this month, Ford Motor Co. said it was cutting 3,800 jobs, most commonly in Germany, as the automaker switches to electric in the region alone with electric vehicle models requiring fewer people to manufacture.
In addition to the ID. 3, VW plans to manufacture at least two more electric models on its expanding campus through 2026, the new Tiguan SUV following other SUVs. The latter aims to update key electric car project Trinity, whose CEO Oliver Blume has to postpone at least two years due to software delays.
VW is making an investment of 460 million euros until the beginning of 2025 to re-equip the Wolfsburg plant for the production of electric vehicles, most of it for production services and the rest for workforce qualification.
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