The assembly line at the factory in Regensburg, Bavaria, will be shut down next week.
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The latest victim of the global chip shortage is called BMW
. Production in Regensburg is suspended for a week.
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The break precedes the general closure during the first week of August. Production in Regensburg will resume on August 9.
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The entire auto sector is biting its teeth on the shortage of chips. On Friday, Volvo Cars CEO Hakan Samuelsson indicated that the chip shortage ‘really annoying’ is. ‘Because we want to build more cars’.
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The Belgian factories of Volvo Cars and Audi forced to suspend production in June. “It seems that the bottom of the crisis has been reached,” said Peter d’Hoore of Audi Brussels at the time. ‘We expect improvement in the second half of the year.’
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BMW CEO Oliver Zipse was less optimistic. In May, he stated that it two more years to go before supply and demand for the chips are back in balance.
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