Studies

Transformation process in the Saxon automotive supplier industry due to the switch to the production of electric vehicles

[AMZ/CATI, June 2019]

A joint study by the Saxony Automobile Suppliers Network (AMZ) and the Chemnitz Automotive Institute (CATI) on behalf of the Saxon Energy Agency – SAENA GmbH
commissioned and financed by the Saxon State Ministry for Economics, Labor and Transport

The supplier industry is looking forward to this trend reversal towards electromobility with mixed expectations. Reason for the Saxon State Ministry for Economics, Labor and Transport (SMWA) to take a closer look at this accelerating transformation process and its effects on the supplier industry. The results are now available in a new study. The Saxony Automobile Suppliers Network (AMZ) and the Chemnitz Automotive Institute (CATI) were involved in the preparation of the study on behalf of the Saxon Energy Agency – SAENA GmbH.

Thanks to the plans of Volkswagen, BMW and Porsche for their Saxon locations, Saxony is becoming one of the TOP regions for the production of electric cars not only in Germany, but also in Europe.

Such an expected development is without question a very positive message for the region, which Volkswagen Saxony is clearly expressing with the slogan ‘Tradition meets future’ . In Zwickau, an existing vehicle plant is currently being converted at a rapid pace into a plant in which combustion engines will no longer be produced in the near future. The plant is also to be developed into a cross-brand ‘European center for e-mobility’.

Summary of the study (German)

Overall study (German)