After the fall of the berlin wall nov 9th on d. W. For over rich and home the fortune for the. Books. The berlin wall came down 3 decades ago it happened suddenly for many people and triggered a lengthy process of social political and economic change parts of Eastern Germany is still trying to reinvent themselves and hold on to those young people who are
eager to move away upheaval when everything changes thats our focus today on mate we start in the eastern german city of the one thing that hasnt changed there is the construction of cars a Tradition Dating back to 9904 its where the iconic truck was produced in the days of communist east germany. Took over the company in 1900 modernised the plant now its really engineering the business once more to make electric cars joining a revolution of a different type the green push towards immobility something good for the planet this time as opposed to the trouble he which is germans waited years to get their hands on and despite conjuring up
everything and fix it fast this was the 1st car i had as a student these days you can find the so-called tragedies in a museum here in ca cal common you factoring has a century long history. set is employed by a company that to mum s flexibility he sees to that i must have had 10 different jobs he s always been happy to go where he s needed and i started in the paint shop and then i was working in sales and customer service i worked in assembly for a short time too i ve been in a number of different locations including south africa that was a very interesting time on that side. but the biggest change is yet to come the plantain sicko is being converted into an electric car factory.
plantain sicko is being converted into an electric car factory. and from what they would hear here and speak out transformation means that every vokes wagon employee in saxony has to rescale and learn how to do other jobs every worker has to be retrained sometimes multiple times. but is that a good thing. other employees think it s good that we offer job security not just until today and tomorrow but also for the coming years one of. the jobs of being guaranteed despite the fact that electric vehicles are easy and to build that s because v.w. is increasing output it wants to produce some $333000.00 vehicles a year. the investment is good news for the city of which has seen a decline in both manufacturing and population since the fall of the wool.