which means north korea, a rogue, an isolated power with nuclear weapons can call russia it's pragmatic friends. at least for now the most companies that can need to come on phones become far too many employees thought too many production fox. the base is the all new key, a e v 3, a compact electric se that aims to snatch by us from vw id, 3, volvo, the ex 30 and a like in that segment. above can it actually compete?

we'll find out right now, block of direct compact as reviews or an extremely popular segment because they offer a decent amount of space plus, still being small enough to fit in a lot of parking spaces. the 3 is driven by 150 kilo of 200 falls. paolo electric motor, which sits at the front x a, which is rather unusual. if you compare that to valuable x 30 or v w $83.00, where the motor is had the re and therefore those uh, rear wheel driven. but to be fair, talking about power, all boot over on to $150.00 kilowatts. it doesn't matter where the motor's at the front door at the rear, the b, w. i g 3 has been on the market since 2019. and as a recently received an update, it's currently available from around 33300 years. of all the

x 30 is still pretty new. having come onto the market at the end of 2023. the cheapest version starts at just under $40000.00 bureaus. the 2 different battery size is $58.00 or 81 kilowatt hour, and 81 kilowatt hours is around the big for that compact segment. if you compare the 2 e x 30 or 83, those have a little small, a battery key. i can reach out to 436 kilometers according to w l t p. while the volvo is already finished off the 100 kilometers less. so $336.00, something around that. and the id 3 has around 50 kilometers, less than the keep. all of these figures off for the entry level versions of operation of the v 3 can be adjusted with the paddles behind the steering wheel,

3 different levels of possible and 123, and those feel quite different in terms of the solar radiation at the max level, you can move the car in one pedal drive, of course a to want to completely stop. but if you drive carefully and look ahead, then it should be no problem. the, unlike it's big brothers, the e, b $6.89. the 3 is not based on 800 volts technology, but regular 400 balls just as its competitors in that segment. and that is one of the reasons that key is able to offer the cost for that price. but it also means that in terms of charging it is not as fast as it's brothers. it is compared the to the valvo or the i,

the 3 if you ever on half an hour of charging from 10 to 80 percent, no matter if you have the big or small battery the what's good with the v 3 a's that the heat pump comes s standard and that's especially interesting for cold or markets just as germany. and that way you won't use too much energy to keep your call. well, during the winter, the top of the range, the 3 and i d 3 have a maximum range of 605 kilometers with a key. it costs 41400 cures and the v w over 6000 for the interior of the e. v 3 looks quite different from most of the cost nowadays because it uses a lot of recycled materials. you can see that this one right here just like this one. and all this made from recycled materials,

the q i have these touch shortcuts for the most important functions. then you have to 12.3 inch displays and a little 5.5 inch display in the middle of the fall climate control. but don't worry, the climates can also be controlled down here. at least you can adjust the temperature and the ventilation, which is very good. because that way, you can feel the buttons without actually having to look at them. if you were to use the touch screen right here, it is somewhat hidden behind the steering we had at least a few of the driver. of course, if you're a cold driver, then you can easily see it, but maybe it's not as easy to reach it as you will have to lean over. the steering wheel looks ok. it's not exactly my style, but it has some kind of

a box. the design that the car in general has so that fits together in the center you will find that's called so here that you can move to the from that way, we'll have a little more space right down here. you will find or nothing as there is no storage space back here, which is a little sad. but on the upside, you have a lot of storage space down here also to cap holders. they can open and close depending on whether you need them or not. wireless charging for your smartphone. what i have to say though is the charging spot is quite low in the car. i could imagine that he did this on purpose because at least in germany, you're not allowed to touch your phone while driving. and that way you won't be tempted to touch it. the more you have to us b. c sockets. the problem i see with that is if you have your smartphone

wirelessly charging in the center, then you can not add the 2nd smartphone to that. so you will have to put that down here, which means the cable will go above you are the smartphone around your cop or button or anything. and that doesn't really look very tidy. considering this is a for me, the 30 s u v. so uh, the compact, the space in the back is quite ample. you have a lot of like room, the seat is adjusted to me sitting in the front that i speak to the i. the 3 as a room guide in the stairs will keep an eye on your battery level. so whatever destination you set in the navigation system, it will tell you how many percent you will have left when you reach that. and if you can to reach that with the current battery level,

then is will add charging stops along the route and tell you how long you need to charge. that is no. busy new feature in itself, but it's cool to see that in the complex cd sec, tv 3 has a huge array of driver assistance systems. and the most annoying one. he said, the speed warning. of course that is true for most modern cars nowadays. hands with some of these, you will have to search for the option to the activate the sound in the menus, and that is not good. but as i have a solution to that, if you keep the mute button for the radio breast, then the speed limit wanting sounds will be disabled and only those. so you will still be warned if you drive over the line or don't pay attention.

the entry level, the price for the key i, the $3.00 is just on the $36000.00 euros in germany, which places it basically between the valvo and the id 3. the id 3 is a little cheaper, therefore has little less power and also the less range. and the mobile is a little bit more expensive has way more power, but also way less range. so thing that is always good about cause a stair of a long warranty, 7 years, 150000 kilometers, depending on what you reach 1st. if you compare that, for example, to volvo, those all for 5 years, or 150000 kilometers, which is also okay. and b, w only has 2 years. no, you have to admit the v. w gives

a separate warranty on the battery that they won't fall below 70 percent of its capacity with in 160000 kilometers. and that is also quite good. the summing up my e, the 3 experience, i have to say the car is quite comfortable. it has a lot of clever features and even in the base version, it offers a lot of sand that equipment which is good. the engine of a price just on the $36000.00 euros, which is around the same price you pay for any other kind that segment. so if the boxy design doesn't repel you, it might just be the coffee you on the plus side, the key, the 3 can score points for this usage of sustainable materials, a good range it spaciousness. the vehicle to load function 10, the easy operation of most of the features on the interior. the only negative issues or the absence of storage space under the arm rest in the center. and in

sufficient space for smartphone. charging right next to the us be stop the these are my parents on their wedding day and the folk sudden goals. and arthur, my child, a dog riding his fox like beatles. and this is me and my 1st car also a beetle churn jeremy folk song has been a part of every day life for families like mine and the pillar for the economy. it's been the dominant car brand for decades. but now it's desperate. so it's market value has plummeted to lows. last scene after the 2008 financial crisis . and the diesel gaped scandal, a fox log needs to cut costs. and it's management has been pushing for plant closures and it's a german heartland. but dw functions differently from any other car company in the

world. it's also a workers who called a shop with me down yonder caballo as head of the folks funk and works council. there will be no factory closures in this country. until now you have been locked in a steel needs that they try to be used to become even more efficient. but the unions of steps and then preventive. there's, there's job cuts. after the longest collective bargaining interviewee history unions and management came to an agreement, folks that is cutting jobs, but leaving its plans in germany open. the question that remains is this a sustainable past for the future? experts are skeptical to this, maybe the final attempt to, to revise the old model without really going where it's very painful without

really thinking about our own models. good, correct? is our production still correct? or should we do or should we arrive a goal for profit, but more painful change? you said could determine jeremy's future as a carnation. before we keep going, let's get something confusing out of the way 1st. there are 2 types of folks. ok. there's the folks that i can group, which is a conglomerate that owns 10 different car and truck brands. but in this explain are we will be mainly focusing on the folks i can brand. so the maker of these cars so that is one of the forces that turned germany into europe's industrial parts. the car maker has 10 factories across the country. almost half of the w as global workforce is employed here. tech spot is a highly symbolic company for germany. it represents the car industry. the current

industry stands for 15 percent of the value added within the industrial sector, which is roughly 25 percent of the time. and do the piece right now folks, i'm facing a crisis on multiple from the brand is struggling with profitability. it's lagging far behind its target. we were p market is under performing. china is shrinking full of important brands and the electric vehicle that take it's taking a while longer than people expect. those companies to say, okay, we need to talk on phones because far too many police folks bought too many production ponds. people are sitting around in my home and something and that's what vw management did in september and next, the decades old job guarantee for its german workers. and for the 1st time. and it's 8070 your history planned on closing factories in germany, according to the works council. the announcement prompted the biggest strikes and

the car makers history. but it's like so, i mean, it's not that simple. the w functions differently from all of its rivals. it's not just management that has the final say here, in accordance with the law written just for b, w regional government as voting powers and the companies decisions most of the time and allies with workers interest. and is at odds with investors. the state of lower sacks and he has 2 seats on vw supervisory board. those along with a tennessee, it's given to the labor side. mean a workers interests have a majority today vw workers have some of the strongest organized labor power in the world works consul leader, the new color has been called the 2nd and most influential person and the company after the c. o. now she helped prevent the 1st ever vw plan closures in germany. so how did we get here?

from 1930 is germany. the country was far from being the auto nation. it is today. just half a 1000000 cars were driving on its roads. friends had 3 times as many when i was hit the seas power he set out to change that he hired engineer, getting on posit to come up with a car affordable for most people. the hitler's car plans needed a car plant and money to finance the construction of the 1st white spot in factory here and vice book. he turned to workers. wallet denazi's had taken over all workers union offices, uniting them under the german labor front, expropriated union funds collected by the front or used as the starting capital for folks starting 50000000 with ice marks. but as the 2nd world war started weapons, not cars rolled off. the ford spoke factory floors produced by

a work force including about $20000.00 forest labor or as i looked at folks on history review company, built on exporting its workers from stolen union funds to force labor. when the 2nd world war ended, british occupying forces to control of the plans, again, workers played a decisive role. they cleared the factories of rubble and restarted production. the car major rapidly turned into the symbol of west jeremy's post for economic miracle. the fox martin, literally translated to people's car, became known as affordable and reliable. by 1955 v w a. had produced its 1000000 feet on the car, was being exported to almost $100.00 countries around the world, the sensitivity as it on what it is on it. it could

be delivered on java. there's an interval point on a 1000000 based on a new start and the student, or even the onto test will get invested. business was moving and we w was hiring perks were meant to learn more workers like higher wages and 6. okay. not a given in west germany at the time, volkswagen became synonymous with safety and prosperity. but one question remained. who owned folks? until now and the west german government had acted as an interim trustee. but in 1961 v. w. when public becoming the country's biggest company in the same year, the b w law was passed, it was meant to protect the car maker against outside influence like this. and it did so by mandating that no shareholder can have more than 20 percent of loading rights. no matter how much of the company they own many vw were,

chris bought shares at a discounted rate and the german state of lower sacks, and he became one of folks science biggest shareholders, giving a 20 percent of voting rights. so both of state and workers became ingrained in the new retail to use structure. this is hence the hey me, is the minister of economy at the time. that's, that's why you use the types of it. that's the adverb. i don't understand this folks find x x you need to use course with a new just about the sounding families. the partial piece eventually became the largest shareholder. so based on the complicated history, folks on created its very own brand of capitalism, a hybrid between states, run and family owned, with special protection for its workers. since the v w law was passed, the need for management work or consensus, has been a fixture. and so have above average wages at 15.4 percent folks are

expense more in labor than all of its competitors. they're earning much more than audio workers around in this country, even the funding mode and then some of working for time, the procedures of b and w during good times. it's a deal that worked in 2011 folks so i can prove break the record profits. and this the company did well, it's not just the shareholders who benefited workers did to wages rose. but now folks are struggling on multiple friends. and it's unique form of capitalism has been put to the test. take electric vehicles, for example. this is, it's planned in psycho in the east of germany, in 2019 the production of combustion engine cars here it was turned on its head.

now only electric vehicles roll off the assembly line. the workers at the plans were retained and retrained the site victim is it's a bit like science fiction. we basically have an industrial robot on us here without a safety fence which enables collaboration with people doing other things here. so people that need to be afraid of technology and on some photos to produce the software for it saves folks funding, spend billions on an in house software maker carrier at headquarters in germany. but we know these plans have worked out because there's too little work for the 10000 employees. instead of 3 shifts a day. workers here are currently only putting in 2 guys. unfortunately, the market didn't react because we hoped for the cause on as in demand as we would have wished, given installed. but the load and then isn't the only problem. vw as electric cars

are pricey, the id 3 is the cheapest model, but it's still cost more than many of us, europe and competitors. just as cheap chinese cars are rolling onto the european markets to show us produce and from the probably cost 2000 us just to produce, to call labor a factory out of stuff or on the drum in this hot 2nd the it's the trip, the price and sometimes the cost $5.00 or 6 on top of that because the electric cars have to come in. some us for software glitches, you get to the car. the keyless entry doesn't work, the car doesn't unlock, you have to use the key to unlock it, which still works. and the f doesn't work. you're going to model thoughts. the major pharmacies are consoles are controlled by the central district. so that is just black that you can't control because the main and major functions of the cops

. so this is the major issue and look at the w's factory. and so the car shows the car maker needs to reform, to turn up software struggles around fox fighting recently, spend $5000000000.00 outsourcing of software project into vivian and american company. but when it comes to the money, the w spends on its workers, drastic changes aren't, and it's dna. after 70 hours of negotiations, 1st cycle management and workers found a way forward without shutting factories. each for them is not truly so i am of course very pleased that today. so close to christmas. we have reached the result that we can communicate to our colleagues at all sites that they can now move on from this period of anxiety and worries about the future. the in store one day as walking these sites that things are moving forward and that we were able to create a positive outlook for the plan. uh um, finished on auto sign a pest pic t,

the shopping cart and fox on is still cutting jobs. 35000 in the next 5 years. but those cuts are meant to happen without terminations to early retirements, for example, v w is also put its job protection scheme back in place. this, this is very mild outcome, at least in the initial order run. and clearly that for a positive, for a full time employee, employees like task done on maya who has worked at vw factory in casa for 40 years, seems to quite to it's also our factory in a sense of the history shows dr. openings on here. and we refuse to be act like the father of the new agreement includes other changes. for example, folks, funds tvs will no longer be produced in the account. but experts are skeptical.

when you look at the agreements, it indeed looks more like a short term fix. an update, you can have a lot of question marks and behind the question whether this is sufficient to re um, re full side and back on track or disagreement does is it is it will reviews the cost position for folks on but not with a sledge hammer. not gonna promptly, but more gradually, folks, funds deal to protect its workers. there's truth with history, but some say it is not staying true to the economic future of the country. what we observe in the car industry is a process by increasing the comp production. so the physical assembly of cause is, takes place in other countries molded in germany, whereas down the need focuses more on research, develop and everything relates to services within the industry. and i think this trend will continue and why don't the indications is that folks stock will not be

able to maintain on its production bronson. john. while the stand off between management and workers is over, for no pressure for folks on reforms will likely last more automotive tales. this time on the, the, the

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