BERLIN — Daimler is extending diminished working schedules at Mercedes-Benz factories in Germany and Hungary as the worldwide scarcity of semiconductors continues to affect automakers.

Volkswagen additionally stated this week it should prolong manufacturing cutbacks at three German vegetation into September as a result of an absence of chips.

Daimler will halt manufacturing subsequent week at its German factories in Bremen and Rastatt and in Kecskemet, Hungary, the German Information Company (dpa) reported on Friday.

Output can be diminished on the automaker’s residence plant in Sindelfingen, Germany.

Greater than 12,000 individuals are employed on the Bremen plant, about 6,500 in Rastatt, about 4,700 in Kecskemet and 25,000 in Sindelfingen.

The C-Class and the GLC SUV are inbuilt Bremen, the B-Class in Kecskemet and the A-Class in Rastatt. Sindelfingen produces the S-Class sedan, E-Class and EQS full-electric sedan.

Manufacturing on the 4 areas had been topic to repeated stops in current months as a result of issues with the availability of digital chips.

Manufacturing at Sindelfingen is predicted to be least affected as Daimler concentrates on defending output of the extremely worthwhile fashions constructed there.

VW is extending manufacturing cutbacks in Germany as a result of an absence of semiconductors, a spokesman advised the dpa earlier this week.

The automaker’s residence plant in Wolfsburg, which builds the Golf hatchback amongst different fashions, will function on just one shift per manufacturing line till Sept. 5.

Crops in Zwickau and Dresden will even function at diminished capability, the spokesman stated.

The chip disaster additionally pressured Volvo to idle its Gothenburg plant for the week of Aug. 30 to Sept. 3.

Stellantis not too long ago needed to halt output at French automobile vegetation in Rennes and Sochaux, whereas final week Ford was pressured reduce output once more at its Cologne plant as a result of chip shortages.