On November 5, according to foreign media reports, Herbert diess, CEO of Volkswagen Group, warned German workers that Tesla's gruenheide factory near Berlin might threaten their work p> < p > dais delivered a prepared speech at an employee meeting in Wolfsburg on Thursday. He said that German workers should be ready for deeper changes and remain competitive, because Tesla's first plant in Europe will increase car production in 2022 p> < p > dais said that Tesla is rapidly improving production efficiency, and the glenhead plant is expected to produce a car in 10 hours. Volkswagen's electric vehicle factory in Zwickau takes more than 30 hours to produce a car, which should be reduced to 20 hours next year p> < p > he said: "yes, I'm worried about the future of Wolfsburg (Volkswagen headquarters). I hope your children and grandchildren can still have a stable job with us in Wolfsburg. That's what I want to say today and why I'm here." < / P > < p > dais cancelled this week's trip to the United States, He was supposed to meet investors and visit technology companies on the west coast of the United States to ease growing tensions with domestic unions. Dais has been accelerating the transformation plan of Volkswagen to prepare for the era of electric vehicles that can drive automatically p> < p > Daniela Cavallo, the new president of Volkswagen's trade union, called on dais to focus on solving the persistent chip shortage rather than participating in social media activities. The shortage of chips has hit Volkswagen harder than Tesla or BMW. "You often provide us with beautiful photos of your trip, but unfortunately, you still don't provide semiconductors," Cavallo said. < / P > < p > the shortage of chips forced Volkswagen to reduce the output of the Wolfsburg plant to its lowest level since the late 1950s. Wolfsburg factory covers an area of about Monaco (a small European country with an area of 2.08 square kilometers), mainly producing the iconic beetle car. Cavallo said that in a labor agreement signed five years ago, Volkswagen plans to produce at least 820000 cars by 2020, but in fact, the output is less than 500000 Novel coronavirus pneumonia also said that despite the surge in demand after the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia outbreak, the Wolfsburg plant could only produce 400 thousand cars this year due to chip shortages and management problems. In order to ensure that the plant is fully utilized, she urged DIS to configure a second electric vehicle in Wolfsburg by 2026, when the Trinity project will be put into operation, which is a key model for Volkswagen's main brands to compete with Tesla. (small) < / P > < p >