Auto plants have shut down in both the United States and Canada as COVID-19 protests continued to rage on at border crossings in Michigan, Montana, and North Dakota.
De fabriek van automerk Opel in Eisenach, in het centrum van Duitsland, zal minstens tot eind dit jaar stilliggen door het mondiale tekort aan halfgeleider.
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production at several plants for weeks at a time. joining me now is the auto reporter for the new york times. neil, great to talk to you this afternoon. appreciate you joining us. glad to be here. is this car shortage solely due to the chips, or has the pandemic itself contributed to this shortage? yeah, there are two factors there. if you go back to last spring, a year ago, most auto plants in north america shut down because of the pandemic. a period of 60 days over three months. and that crimped the supply of vehicles. then they had to reboot those plants and get them back running again. so there were fewer automobiles made last year than normally would be. then when you throw the chip problem on top of that, it s a real issue and there are historically low inventory levels. some companies with just 15 or 20 days supply of vehicles to
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