Porsche Reportedly Pausing Production Of All Models Due To War In Ukraine | Carscoops carscoops
, Porsche confirmed that production at its Leipzig plant that builds the Panamera and Macan had indeed shut on March 2 and that it won’t resume until March 11. The spokesperson added that Porsche’s Zuffenhausen plant remains unaffected but that may not be the case for long. CarScoops has reached out to Porsche for further comment.
“Further steps will take place in an orderly process,” the spokesperson said. “In the coming days and weeks, we will operate on a short-term basis and continuously reassess the situation.”Russia with immediate effect. The German car manufacturer operates 26 Porsche Centers throughout Russia and in the 2021 financial year, a total of 6,262 vehicles were delivered in the country, representing a small sliver of the 301,915 vehicles that Porsche delivered worldwide last year. Russia’s most popular Porsche model for 2021 was the Cayenne, accounting for 54 per cent of all deliveries with 3,431 units sold.
The crisis in Ukraine is expected to impact the automotive industry for quite some time and could lead to a second wave of . That’s because Ukraine is the source of about 70 per cent of the world’s neon output, an important gas for running the lasers necessary to manufacture semiconductor chips.