European car companies:
This sudden storm swept through most parts of the world without warning in just a few months, which had a great impact on people's daily travel and the production order of enterprises. According to the data released by the European Automobile Manufacturers Association, the number of new car registrations in the European market is only 2.2 million, down 7. 1% year-on-year, which is the worst data since 20 13 years.
Lotus-Efja
On March 14, Ferrari, an Italian luxury sports car manufacturer, announced that it would stop production for two weeks for the safety of workers.
On March 17, audi ag, the world's largest automobile manufacturer, announced that it would close all its factories in Europe for 2-3 weeks. During the closure period, work will be carried out through teleconference and video conference to isolate employees who have been to epidemic areas, require employees to work at home and restrict travel.
On the same day, French car companies Renault and PSA also announced the suspension of production. Renault will close its 65,438+02 factory in France, and the number of people affected will reach 65,438+08,000. The day before, Renault had closed two factories in Spain.
Notice of Ferrari's delayed delivery circulated on the Internet.
British car companies seem to be more active than other European counterparts.
According to British media Autocar, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson discussed with British car companies including Ford, Honda and Rolls-Royce whether the production line can be temporarily converted into medical equipment such as masks and ventilators needed by NHS. This news has been confirmed by Ford and Honda, who said that they are in contact with this work. The last time a large car company switched to producing other equipment was during World War II.
Rolls-Royce Phantom
In addition, Ma Ruili's Brannbo (Magneti? Marelli) and other well-known parts suppliers also need to stop production.
American car companies:
Coincidentally, the United States, which has always regarded itself as a beacon of world civilization, has also vaguely recognized inNo. 1 1 thinks that there may be COVID-19 patients among those who died of the new influenza infection before, and constantly exaggerates Trump's previous announcement that the whole country was in a state of emergency, and shops were closed.
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, USA
On March 18, American automobile giants General Motors Group, Toyota Motor Corporation and other Japanese and American automobile companies announced that they would suspend production in North America. I hope this will help prevent the spread of novel coronavirus. The output of new cars in the United States will be temporarily reduced by about 80% compared with previous years.
General Motors, Ford Motor Company and Fiat Chrysler Automobile Company (FCA) will stop the operation of all vehicle and parts factories in the United States, Mexico and Canada from June 5 to September 30. Toyota's downtime is 23-24 days, and Honda's is 23-30 days. Nissan runs from March 20th to April 6th, with the longest downtime. By the end of March, American automobile production will be reduced by about 80%. ?
Chevrolet-Mai Rui Bao
It is worth mentioning that although these giant enterprises have given instructions to stop production and stop work, and asked their employees to work from home, neither GM nor Ford, nor China nor the workers on the production line have used the required standards.
Recent situation in China:
When the whole world is shrouded in the shadow of the epidemic, there is no doubt that the situation in China is obviously improving.
Take Hubei, the worst epidemic area, as an example. All new cases, suspected cases and existing suspected cases have been cleared up.
At present, enterprises in Hubei have resumed work one after another. At the press conference held by the State Council Office, Minister of Industry and Information Technology Xin expressed his support for Hubei spare parts industry to give priority to returning to work, so as to alleviate the spare parts gap faced by global automobiles due to the epidemic.
Multinational car companies did it. Only General Motors used 16 charter planes to transport parts produced in China to its production bases in North America, Brazil and Argentina, and the haitong international Automobile Terminal completed 94 berthing operations.
Summary:
Compared with the poor coping styles of other countries in the early stage, China's way to fight the epidemic is undoubtedly a textbook demonstration, so it seems that the status of the China world factory is still unshakable, but this way of charter transportation also increases the cost, which makes domestic car companies face the problem of parts shortage, and European and American countries need to solve the fundamental problem after all.
The way multinational giants treat employees from different countries differently is also quite unpleasant. Perhaps only domestic car companies such as Lexus will continue to win the championship, which will change.
This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.