{"id":428596,"date":"2025-09-16T10:04:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T10:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/428596\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T10:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T10:04:15","slug":"ford-to-cut-up-1000-jobs-at-germanys-cologne-e-car-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/428596\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford to cut up 1,000 jobs at Germany&#8217;s Cologne e-car plant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">BERLIN (Reuters) -Ford will cut up to 1,000 jobs in electric car production in the German city of Cologne due to weak demand, the U.S. carmaker said in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">&#8220;In Europe, demand for electric cars remains well below industry forecasts,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">&#8220;Ford will therefore switch production at the Cologne plant to single-shift operation from January 2026,&#8221; resulting in the job losses, it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The company said it would offer voluntary redundancy packages to those affected at its Cologne electric vehicle centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Ford has been undergoing a painful restructuring in Germany impacting thousands of jobs, including at its Cologne site as well as a plant in Saarlouis that is set to close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Rachel MoreEditing by Madeline Chambers)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN (Reuters) -Ford will cut up to 1,000 jobs in electric car production in the German city of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[8534,146161,140044,2000,299,548,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-428596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-cologne","9":"tag-cologne-plant","10":"tag-electric-car","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-ford","14":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115213412985894446","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}