How the Chip Shortage Is Forcing Auto Makers to Adapt | WSJ
How the Chip Shortage Is Forcing Auto Makers to Adapt | WSJ
The number of semiconductors in a modern car, from the ignition to the braking system, can exceed a thousand. As the global chip shortage drags on, car makers from General Motors to Tesla find themselves forced to adjust production and rethink the entire supply chain. Illustration/Video: Sharon Shi
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US car cos are crippled by chip shortage, sales down across the board.
China auto sales are up…particularly ev sales up between 80% to 300% y/y. What are the Chinese doing right?
You know what? With this chip shortage, we should go back to using old technology for cars. Manufacturers should make car that is mostly analog and mechanical, doesn’t use electronics, and most and important of all a car that is affordable and practical enough for common people to own that exploits the chip shortage by those factors. Only exception is the car can either have an induction motor for an electric option, a traditional gas engine or a combination of both as a hybrid.
do we really need these chips to decide on timing for turbocharger
what about some mechanical mean to decide timing?
The future is not in front of you, it’s in your past.
Here is a crazy idea but it might work.
1: stop putting all that tech in cars, and start selling a real base model car again.
2: a check off catalog for every add on that you want in a car, no more just offering package or trim models. If you want a base camaro with a ls7, that should be allowed.
3: cut the cost. Cars are way over priced and become harder to work on and more expensive to maintain.
If you get rid of the fancy tech or add ons, then you need to reduce the the same money that goes into buying those parts.
4: Start building everything that makes those cars here in the US. I’m talking the steel, fabric. Engines, body’s, frames, ect. EVERYTHING!!!
Why bother buying a car made in Mexico, when you should be buying a car that is fully built on the US economy. That helps the economy grow and provides jobs here in the USA.
Now that’s alot of writing or texting in this matter. But the point is, this is what we use to do here in the USA.
It’s the way it should be.
Let the customer build their car the way they want it or can afford it.
Make the car affordable so the average person can buy it and not be sent to the soup kitchen.
The profit of a car made in America should provide fully to the US economy and it’s people.
End of world.
Go back to mechanical. How about you turn head to check your blind spot. I guess technology isn’t always the best way to go.
The female narrator sounds like an American trying to sound English I don’t get it
Let’s Go Brandon!
Only the chip supply chain & it’s destination was disrupted during covid.
Chip production actually increased, bang on schedule, during this time.
Chip makers simply prioritised who the chips go to.
The auto industry lost out, why, because they refuse to stockpile, to save on costs, & used the risky supply us, just in time, approach to manufacturing.
Serves them right, greed backfired.
Time to bring back the carburetor and roll up windows. I don’t need half the garbage on my car anyway.
Keep it simple stupid. I personally don’t like how complicated cars are new. Anything electronic goes bad it’s expensive to fix. I miss 80s and 90s simplicity of cars. Wish you could by a base model with no infotainment system or manual windows locks. I personally don’t need all that to drive my car. Some of it causes distracted driving.
My 1948 Ford F-1 runs just fine without chips.
Chip cars are useless make old type of cars. Stop unnecessary overengineering, it has made driving a headache.
No more distributor means no more running cars!
Cars nowadays have too much technology in them anyway to be practical. Why do you need to navigate several infotainment pages to change radio channel if it can easily be done by a dial? Why do we need power seats when a simple lever does the same job?
My heart is with the people in sales as well 😞 they have families to take care of and some of them have made car sales their careers
Ford Chevy GMC Etc are built so poorly nowadays vs really old school cars y’all suck they are so poorly made it’s ridiculous but they now ask hundreds and thousands of dollars this is all by choice not chance
These people don’t what all is going on, 60% of the chips are made in Taiwan. China is has been feuding with Taiwan for a while and is escalating. If a war breaks out there, we could be looking at a long chip shortage. I personally think China using Covid and may invade Taiwan next to further cripple America. Manufacturers should start making cars/trucks without chips, or make their own chips.
Theres one solution to the problem, go back to the good old carburetor.
Jeep saying they are running out of chips
Also jeep producing the grand wagoneer with a gazillion screens
Good! New cars are depreciating assets anyway. I’ll just keep driving my 2005 Honda Accord Hybrid to…nowhere! I’m working from home. No need to drive much!
Nearly 3000 in some high end models. We’re sorry but the lifestyle you’ve ordered is out of stock
Just make cars from 98, 05 models, some of those are better made than the newer ones.
US Commerce Dept proved that chip shortage was caused by Taiwanese TSMC. Taiwanese have been bad mouthing S Korean companies to win the US contracts with chip production. Same dirty play by communist China. TSMC was also using Chinese middle man to dry supplies to increase prices.
Maybe they playing the losses for the front page but reality is, they never made that much money… They just laughing at customers
Can they go back to the regular Cars. It’s like the car companies want us to go with their flow. those are useless things.
Hyundai is joining Tesla in bringing chip production in-house.
How many chips are sitting on container ships while the Longshoremen don’t get ships unloaded?
Biden is incompent.
Democrats caused this.
Back in the 1980’s the morons in Washington. Pushed industry offshore v
Because it was dirty.
America would only to clean jobs.
Democrats caused this problem
Do your research
No harm if there was a reduction in cars. There’s way too many of them.
Guess I’ll just keep my old Honda for a while
If you used robot arms and machines to efficiently and reliably produce your chips at home instead of abroad, you’d be dominating the industry right now. Reshoring supply chains is the future.
Yeah there’s about 30 reasons I’ll be driving 90s Honda’s until they can’t be driven anymore.
Dirty Honda Kid for Life
Just in Time, it a global issue effecting every industries who relied on JIT for so long e.g. fresh food in supermarket or critical medicine in hospital.
Let their new cars sit on the lots. Not paying 45K for a Ford Ranger or 58K for a Silverado. Get outta here with your chip theory.
OK time to Frankencar the thing into what looks like the car from back to the future 3 lol.
The U.S strangle hold/arm twisting on the countries that hold the patents/machinery for the chip foundrys is the main cause of chip shortages. If the U.S punitive actions against China were lifted, China have the knowledge and manpower to remedy the situation overnight.
$50 billion for research and development?
They already know how to make the things. How about 50 billion dollars for manufacturing?
Because manual alternatives are too hard apparently
Hey there! I’m doing a project at University on automotive chip-based supply chain disruption. Proper related material? Thank you!
Why not just create a company that makes the chips and stop dealing with 3rd party vendors do you this would stop Henry Ford he would start his own chip company
FJB
The temporary solution from Auto companies were dangerous in response to chip shortage 🙄
Want my 69 torino 428 cobrajet back.
Why can’t Detroit build chips? More jobs?
Boo hoo I can’t buy new car. I want new car. I don’t want car from last year.
The bright side is it’s a sellers market (from the standpoint of car owners). I went to get an oil change on my ‘19 Jeep Compass. They offers me way more than I owed. Then I picked up a very nice, used 2018 Grand Cherokee Limited.
overpriced cars nice create a bubble… In three years those overpriced cars will be worthless….. thank you to whoever is running the show …… a great way to take advantage of people …. i hope this is a wake-up call to the American public that we need to start making stuff here again
I need a new car, should i lease short term and buy once the prices have stabilised??
So all these vehicles will be considerably cheaper then right?