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Deliveries in China, including Hong Kong, fell 24.5 per cent to 328,042 vehicles over the first nine months, according to company figures.
The result was driven primarily by special items of about €7.8 billion booked in the quarter.
The figures mean 27 per cent of all production equipment across the country is currently inactive, a level not recorded since April 2020.
At the centre of his critique is the European Union’s climate regulatory framework, particularly fleet emission targets and mandatory sustainability reporting.
The corporate board has instructed personnel managers worldwide to freeze pay levels until 2030.
Group revenues contracted by 23 per cent year-on-year to 66.9 billion kronor (€6.02 billion), driven down by a 10.7 per cent decline in global retail volumes.
The judgment lands as the European Commission pursues its own cases against the company over platform design and advertising.
Volkswagen’s management is seeking increases in worker productivity, greater scheduling flexibility and a reduction in overtime payouts.
The figures include direct, indirect and induced economic effects calculated through economic modelling.
These companies, he said, face growing pressure to build affordable electric vehicles while keeping costs under control.
“The federal government is united in jointly advocating in Brussels for a reversal of the ban,” he said.
The cars are the E5 Sportback and the E7X, developed with SAIC Motor for young, tech-minded Chinese buyers and never listed for official sale in Europe.
Ineos said almost 4,000 jobs in the Humberside supply chain hang on the plants if the pause becomes permanent.
The figures match a plan first set out in June under the “tailor Made” programme.
JLR employs about 43,000 people worldwide, including about 34,000 in Britain. A smaller round last year removed about 500 UK management roles.
For years the Federation of German Industries (BDI) and the big car, chemical and machinery groups treated China as a market first and a rival second.
They called for the burden to be reduced on a sustainable basis, describing further increases as unacceptable for businesses and employees.
High energy costs, bureaucracy, skilled-labour shortages and external pressures, including US trade policies and Chinese market distortions.
The Munich-based manufacturer plans to reduce its global workforce by around 8,000 positions by the end of 2027, with most of the cuts expected to come from Germany…
Applications for the Battery Booster Facility close on September 30, with a ceiling of €500 million per project.
Paris and Berlin have promised a common position on the bloc's automotive package and its "Made in Europe" requirements by the end of summer.
The Valencia factory currently produces only the Kuga and has been operating well below its full capacity, making the partnership important for its long-term future.
In previous years these bonuses and special payments could reach several thousand euros when the company was performing strongly.
Heavy industry would keep free pollution permits until 2038 under the biggest overhaul of the European Union carbon market since it began in 2005.
Italy and Poland lead a group with just enough weight to block the reform in the Council of the European Union.
Eichbaum Brewery, founded in 1679 in the town of Bad Windsheim in Bavaria, announced that it will cease production later this year.
The move is part of a broader far ranging cost-cutting and efficiency drive as the group confronts a sharp downturn in its core European and Chinese markets.
In the April-to-June period, there were 4,996 insolvencies of partnerships and corporations.
The company, part of the struggling Volkswagen Group, employs around 40,000 people worldwide, with the majority based in Germany.
McKinsey’s 65-page study shows that Germany is investing almost nothing in additional production capacity.
