BERLIN – Volkswagen Group doesn’t anticipate the worldwide scarcity of semiconductors to finish this 12 months though it ought to additional ease barely within the second half, the automaker’s head of buying stated.

“The unstable state of affairs will have an effect on us no less than past the primary half of this 12 months,” Murat Aksel, the top of procurement for VW model and buying for VW Group, stated in an interview with Automotive Information Europe sister publication Automobilwoche.

Carmakers world wide have been hit by a scarcity of semiconductors brought on by COVID-19 supply-chain disruptions in addition to hovering semiconductor demand at client digital firms.

Complete estimated misplaced quantity for the reason that scarcity started in 2021 was 10,811,561units on the finish of January, Sam Fiorani of AutoForecast Options stated on Friday. Complete estimated misplaced quantity to date in 2022 is 370,486 items, he stated.

Aksel advised Automobilwoche that there have been clearly structural points at play, with demand set to proceed to rise within the automotive business.

As such, as an alternative of taking a look at claiming damages from suppliers behind on chip deliveries, the main target was on working carefully with them to make sure higher availability, he stated.

It ought to change into simpler to make dependable predictions in 2023, when extra semiconductor manufacturing capability comes on-line, he stated.