Ford has explained it would halt manufacturing at its German vegetation in Cologne and Saarlouis for several weeks due to a lack of semiconductors.
The two vegetation make about two,000 vehicles a working day put together throughout a typical manufacturing run.
“We will make up for the shed manufacturing as very best as we can… We are doing work to make improvements to the problem as before long as feasible,” the automaker explained in a statement cited by SeekingAlpha.com.
A long checklist of automakers have viewed manufacturing disrupted, the report pointed out, like Jaguar Land Rover, Volvo and Mitsubishi Motors, Typical Motors and BMW.
AlixPartners has believed the chip shortage could price automakers US$61bn in shed product sales in 2021.