据路透社周五看到的一份内部备忘录，大众汽车量产品牌首席执行官托马斯·舍费尔在备忘录中告诉员工，公司正暂停在沃尔夫斯堡总部对即将推出的纯电动高尔夫的开发工作，称该主力工厂在成本目标上已落后。
Volkswagen is suspending development work on the upcoming all-electric Golf in Wolfsburg, a top executive told workers in an internal memo seen by Reuters on Friday, telling them the carmaker's main plant was behind on cost targets. "I know what the Golf means for Volkswagen and for Wolfsburg.
“我知道高尔夫对大众汽车和沃尔夫斯堡意味着什么。这就是为什么这个决定对我们来说真的不容易，”舍费尔说。“我们现在根本负担不起这项工作，”他说。
That's why this decision was really not an easy one for us," said Thomas Schaefer, CEO of the German auto group's volume brands. "We simply can't afford this work right now," he said.
管理层的这一决定表明，勒紧裤腰带过日子的压力已波及这家陷入困境的集团总部，舍费尔警告称该工厂已落后进度，并指出存在3亿欧元的成本赤字。根据备忘录，埃姆登和茨维考工厂正在取得进展。
Management's decision was a sign of belt-tightening reaching the embattled group's headquarters, with Schaefer warning that the plant had fallen behind and flagging a €300 million cost deficit. Factories in Emden and Zwickau were making progress, according to the memo.
这两个工厂是德国面临关闭威胁的四个工厂之一，大众汽车正加大重组力度，以应对中国竞争对手的威胁以及关键市场需求下滑。沃尔夫斯堡工厂不在这四个工厂之列。
Those two sites are among four in Germany threatened with closure under a ramped-up restructuring to face the threat of Chinese competition and falling demand in key markets. Wolfsburg is not one of the four.