Today, with the development of technology, unemployment rates have started to increase in many sectors. It turned out that this was caused by the electric cars and production processes that joined us recently. It is even said that the jobs of hundreds of thousands, not thousands or tens of thousands, are at stake.
Electric cars will leave hundreds of thousands of people unemployed!
According to a recent study by Ford and Volkswagen, electric cars require much less labor on the production line than their internal combustion engine predecessors. In fact, according to the statements of the companies, this rate is a little over 30 percent.
The biggest reason for this is that the engine work of electric vehicles is much simpler and there is no need for a person to provide physical labor in the preparation of batteries and battery packs. In other words, robots can take full responsibility.
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Of course, when the wind of change blows, not those who build a wall, but those who build windmills can survive. The electric car transformation is a process that the whole world agrees on and has to comply with by 2030.
However, even in cars sold only in the USA, 75,000 people become unemployed when the electric rate rises from 5 percent to 50 percent. Moreover, in line with the EU’s 2030 plan, it is stated that more than 630,000 people will be affected and almost all of them will be unemployed.
Moreover, if the smart production vision put forward by not only manufacturers but also other European automobile suppliers until 2040 is followed, more than 275,000 people will have to find another job in this process. In addition, although it seems that we will reach these large numbers in the next 10 to 15 years, this process has already begun.
Ford, for example, said it plans to cut 8,000 people from its internal combustion engine division. Ford CEO Jim Farley said:
There are definitely too many people in some departments, no doubt about it. But we have skills that no longer work and jobs that need changing.
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