If today’s news regarding production delays at Ford was a game of Clue, the first victim would be Bronco, caused by hardtops. Now it’s Mach-E, with lack of chips being the weapon.
While production at the company’s Cuautitlan, Mexico plant will continue, some deliveries will be delayed by six weeks or more.
That’s because the affected cars have been built already, but they need semiconductor chips before they can be delivered.
The shortage has been ongoing for a long time now, and Ford has been hit hard. It said that at the end of the second quarter it had 60,000 to 70,000 vehicles sitting on lots, waiting for chips.
There have been other delays involving Mach-E production, which has led the company to offer free charging and other make-goods.
Looks like, as if with Bronco, Ford will continue to have to do so.
Is the F-150 going to be found killed by rope? Or will the Escape be located in Louisville with a revolver slug in its head?
Ford’s production schedule really is starting to look like Mr. Boddy’s mansion.
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“It said that at the end of the second quarter it had 60,000 to 70,000 vehicles sitting on lots, waiting for chips.”
Somehow I had missed that news; that’s a lot of cars. Where do you park so many cars?
From my understanding all over the place but relatively near their respective plants. Kentucky Speedway is where the put a lot of Super Dutys.
I’m starting to wonder what kind of condition these Super Duties are going to be in when the chips/modules can be installed. It just isn’t KY Speedway (give them their race back please…), but it’s all over Louisville and the Northern KY/Cincinnati suburbs. I’m going to be heading that way in a week or two and I’m curious what the Speedway looks like now.
We’re not just talking about a thousand or two trucks. I don’t think 100,000 around the area is out of line. Even when the chips start flowing again…next year…the backlog is going to be biblical.
Shortage of chips for cars and no shortage of Microsoft chips for vaccinated humans.
I wonder if I can mine crypto with my vaccine chips?
“I wonder if I can mine crypto with my vaccine chips?”
Ask Bill Gates how to program chip. Most likely it is ARM architecture.
I mean if you can hack it and have right tools. It is not an open source, it is a Microsoft. Expect lot of defects, patches and service packs.
“Shortage of chips for cars and no shortage of Microsoft chips for vaccinated humans.”
Stop repeating bullsh!t. A vaccine needle is way too small to implant a chip and secondly, it would cost more than Microsoft’s worth and Bill Gates wealth to develop the technology.
Lou, can you sometimes ignore my posts? It is not necessary to reply to every post. I actually ignore most of posts to save time for more productive activities.
Answering your question though -these may help:
https://wccftech.com/intel-2021-2029-process-roadmap-10nm-7nm-5nm-3nm-2nm-1nm-back-porting/
Literally hundreds will be affected, and they likely all own at least one automobile so really almost no one is impacted.
EBFlex?
LOL
Most chips come from Taiwan, which is China’s bitch. I wonder if there’s a connection…
The 1980s k-car limo was longer, at 210 inches. The 2.2L must have been grossly underpowered for this limo with passenger onboard
https://www.allpar.com/threads/the-k-car-based-chrysler-executive-and-limousine%C2%A0.229750/