North American factories have been compelled to eradicate one other 79,000 autos from their manufacturing plans this week due to ongoing shortages of microchips, in accordance with AutoForecast Options.
Because the business nears the top of a second full yr of the shortages worldwide, automakers nonetheless face extra schedule modifications to cope with the issue.
In accordance with AFS’ newest forecast, microchip shortages could have knocked 4.4 million autos out of worldwide manufacturing plans by the top of 2022. That’s practically 400,000 extra autos than have already got been eradicated this yr — and with barely a month left within the 2022 calendar.
AFS signifies that China’s auto factories have been comparatively spared from the chip disaster this yr.