Automotive Layoffs
Comprehensive tracking of workforce reductions across the Automotive industry.
Total Jobs Cut
Companies Affected
AI-Cited Layoffs
AI-Related Cuts
Companies
Volkswagen
Germany · Mar 2026
Weak sales and US tariff impacts
Volkswagen
Germany · Mar 2025
Slashing 35,000 jobs; factory closures in Germany; deepening auto crisis
Tesla
United States · Apr 2025
Global workforce reduction amid EV slowdown
ZF Friedrichshafen
Germany · Jul 2025
Auto supplier cutting 14,000 jobs by 2028; EV transition and declining orders
Tesla
United States · Apr 2024
Global workforce reduction amid EV demand slowdown; senior executives also departed
Robert Bosch
Germany · Sep 2025
Chinese competition and weak demand in automotive sector
Nissan
Japan · Nov 2025
Global workforce reduction amid slipping sales; production capacity cut 20%
ZF Friedrichshafen
Germany · Oct 2025
EV demand weakness and automotive transition
Continental AG
Germany · Apr 2025
German auto supplier restructuring; spinning off automotive division
Ford
United States · Aug 2025
Ended electric F-150 production; 4,000 in limbo + 1,600 EV battery workers in Kentucky
Bosch
Germany · Jun 2025
German car parts maker cuts jobs as sales drop; worsening auto market; up to 5,500 by 2029
Stellantis
United States · Apr 2025
Laid off 3,200 employees tooling up electric Jeep Compass; tariff impacts
Renault
France · May 2025
French automaker restructuring amid EV transition
Carvana
United States · May 2022
Used car market collapse; near-bankruptcy restructuring
Nissan
Japan · Dec 2025
Plant shutdown in Japan to result in 2,400 local job cuts
GM (Ultium plants)
United States · Dec 2025
Pausing battery-cell output for six months at Warren, Ohio and Spring Hill, Tennessee
BMW
Germany · Sep 2025
German automaker cost cuts; EV battery production adjustments
Rivian
United States · Feb 2025
Cost reduction in EV market downturn
General Motors
United States · Oct 2025
EV demand slowdown and production adjustment
Lucid Motors
United States · Mar 2025
Production ramp challenges and cash conservation
GM (Factory Zero)
United States · Dec 2025
Permanently eliminating jobs at Factory Zero in Detroit; single shift
Stellantis (Warren Truck)
United States · Jul 2025
Cut shift at Warren Truck Assembly Plant; engine shortage
Ford
Germany · Sep 2025
EV production adjustment and European restructuring
Rivian
United States · Feb 2024
Lost $1.5B in Q4 2023; cost reduction ahead of R2 launch
General Motors
United States · Aug 2024
Moving resources to highest-priority work including EVs
Polestar
Sweden · Jan 2024
EV market competition and cost reduction
Lucid Motors
United States · May 2024
Corporate restructuring ahead of EV SUV launch
Lucid Motors
United States · Feb 2026
EV market challenges and cash conservation
TrueCar
United States · Feb 2026
Car marketplace restructuring
Supernal
United States · Mar 2026
Hyundai air taxi startup lays off close to 300 employees
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