SC300Es

I'm surprised there is no thread discussing the chip shortage. It's affecting the production of a lot of manufacturers.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g3...chip-shortage/

wasjr

Article in today's WSJ spoke to this. I would link but you need a subscription. Here's info on part of cause:The fire in March at the N3 building of Renesas’s Naka Factory caused extensive damage and halted production. Renesas said last week that operations at the plant had resumed on April 17 at about 10% of capacity and was expected to reach 100% by the end of May. Freezing conditions in the U.S. in February caused semiconductor makers in Texas that provide chips for U.S. auto makers to shut down production to take pressure off local power grids. South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. , one of the world’s biggest chip makers, operates two plants in the state that analysts at Citi say account for 28% of the company’s global output. Dutch chip maker NXP Semiconductors NV said at the time that it had to scale back production at its two facilities in Austin, Texas. The Texas freeze also hit the Austin operations of Germany’s Infineon Technologies AG . And new uncertainties keep arising. In Taiwan, where a large number of chips are produced for applications in the auto industry, the worst drought in half a century is now threatening fresh disruptions for chip makers, whose factories require copious amounts of water.

Also, Ford CEO says things will get worse before they get better.

Och

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There is a shortage of high end computer components, such as CPUs and graphic cards - the demand exceeds supply with everyone working at home, playing video games, and crypto mining. With cars its even worse, there is a shortage of chips, as well as sharp increase in the price of steel and rhodium. Not to mention all sorts of transportation issues.

Acrad

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58266794

Toyota is to slash worldwide vehicle production by 40% in September because of the global microchip shortage.

The world's biggest carmaker had planned to make almost 900,000 cars next month, but has now reduced that to 540,000 vehicles.

Och

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Prices are about to skyrocket like crazy, lol.

Vladi

million car a month? Man we as society need to chill with that hyper consumerism.

LexFinally

Context: The world has nine thousand millions of people in it.

mmarshall

Time to start designing and building vehicles with fewer chips. I've said for years that there are too many computerized functions on them.

SW17LS

Are you serious or kidding? Like Lex said, there are 8 billion people in the world.

SW17LS

You don't get what these chips do. Its not the computerized functions, these chips help control everything from power seats to turn signals to lighting...

This is not the end of the world, chip production will come back into line

4TehNguyen

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go drive a 70s-80s vehicle then. Oh wait those sucked for a reason. Modern electronics have made modern cars vastly better to drive and enjoy. More safe, fast, comfortable, efficient

EZZ

to sensors, seat bags, ABS, fuel mgmt, pretty much every single function in the entire car is now controlled through some sort of semiconductor or chip. Get rid of them and you have a 1960 car...lol

LeX2K

Which computerized functions would you get rid of? I do agree the number of modules in the average car is way out of control.

Hoovey689

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That's what someone wants. big sedans, soft suspensions, full size spare tire, small wheels big tread, doors that thud like a vault door, hydraulic steering, no covers on the engine bay, no electronic distractions...

EZZ

You can have all those things in modern cars and have the fuel mgmt, ABS and related safety systems, etc etc.. Manufacturers just choose not to offer it