Around 2,000 employees in Germany are to be affected by short-time work at the US carmaker Ford, the company's works council told dpa in Cologne on Wednesday. News of this measure had already become public on Tuesday evening,

New VW ID-based Capri crossover and its boxy Explorer brother are being throttled back as employees at the Cologne, Germany, plant are now only working alternate weeks

The carmaker has more than 4,000 employees at its Cologne plant. It also has another plant in Saarlouis, in southwestern Germany.

The Blue Oval blames the "rapidly deteriorating market conditions for electric vehicles." Although the Explorer Electric was unveiled in March 2023, Ford didn’t start production until June this year.