Audi must assign the production of an electric vehicle ( EV ) to the automaker 's main plant in Germany , according to the brand 's top European representative , Thomas Mosch . Workers in Germany are concerned they might lose out as electric vehicles gain market share . Chief Executive Rupert Stadler has previously said Audi’s smaller German plant in Neckarsulm where 16,000 workers assemble the higher-end A6, A7 and A8 models, will start making battery-only vehicles from about 2020. Audi will begin construction of a mass - produced EV in Brussels in 2018 . The brand is Volkswagen 's main profit contributor , and plans to launch three EV models by 2020 . " Some of our colleagues must fall off the conveyer belt as we move into the future " , urged deputy works council chief Thomas Waecker .
Audi must assign the production of an electric vehicle ( EV ) to the automaker 's main plant in Germany , according to the brand 's top European representative , Thomas Mosch . Workers in Germany are concerned they might lose out as electric vehicles gain market share . Audi will begin construction of a mass - produced EV in Brussels in 2018 . The brand is Volkswagen 's main profit contributor , and plans to launch three EV models by 2020 . " Some of our colleagues must fall off the conveyer belt as we move into the future " , urged deputy works council chief Thomas Waecker .