Name: How VW Is Turning Engine Factories Into EV Battery Plants | WSJ
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- [Announcer] Ever wish you owned a Volkswagen?

- [Narrator] But more recently, some of those cars

with the realization that their diesel cars

can emit from 10 to 40 times more pollutants.

- We all know that we have let down customers.

of internal combustion engines are predicted to drop

the first of six that it plans to build in Europe

- What you see behind us has nothing to do

and that shows the size of this transformation.

- [Narrator] That means going from making combustion engines

to high-tech electric motors that only have about 20,

- Traditional automakers, if they wanna be in this market

in 2035, they need to develop just as much as the startup's

- [Narrator] The EV market is currently dominated by Tesla

and faces disruption from a bunch of new startups.

- They have nothing to lose, they start from scratch.

- [Narrator] So could this factory be a blueprint

for traditional automakers to survive the EV revolution?

While VW says that its battery factory in Salzgitter

won't be online for another two years or so,

Tesla already has several gigafactories in operation,

and completed its Shanghai facility in under a year.

It also says it's nearing completion of a huge plant

- We've decided to put Tesla gigafactory Europe

like Lucid and Rivian have set up brand new factories

So legacy automakers like GM, Ford and VW

have all announced they're investing billions

into EV production to defend their market share,

with VW committing to 43 billion dollars in five years.

- When you look at what the startups are doing,

You don't have to change a legacy footprint,

so traditional automakers don't have the luxury

- We are responsible for the people and for our customers

- We are building a small scale sales right now

and we are building up the first mass production plant.

- [Narrator] VW has converted part of its existing facotry

into labs and a pilot line to test and refine the science

It plans to build a brand new facility right next to it,

which could produce batteries for over 600,000 vehicles

a year and is expected to cost around 2.5 billion dollars,

Although it says it hasn't finalized the designs

the factory is expected to be similar to this one in Sweden.

and VW is a major investor in the company.

Thomas Schmall is CEO of VW's component division.

- The bottle neck will be how fast you can establish,

increase and ramp up your battery business.

- [Narrator] Within it's labs, VW is trying to figure out

what kind of battery's it's electric vehicles will need

It's testing battery recycling technology

solid state batteries which don't contain liquid lithium,

and promise far fasting charging and greater mileage.

- Fast charge is a big, big topic for us.

We are working on that with a big workforce.

- [Narrator] The transition will effect everyone

The company will need fewer mechanical engineers

and will need new people with totally different skills,

as EV's need so much software that VW is set to become

one of the largest tech companies in Europe.

- To find the right people is a challenge.

everybody wants electro-chemistry people.

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