Vehicle chip shortage 'worst crisis' GM
president has seen in supply chain, sends
prices soaring
WEWS-TV (Cleveland),
by
Sam Cohen
Original Article
Posted By: OhioNick,
4/28/2021 3:13:27 AM
A shortage of semiconductor chips continues to impact both automotive industry employees and those looking to buy a car. Industry analysts say the shortage could last through the end of the year and possibly into 2022.
"The microchip crisis is probably the worst crisis I’ve seen in the auto industry, at least in my career, in terms of supply chain," General Motors President Mark Reuss told Fox Business.
General Motors has idled several plants across the country in the last several weeks as the lack of semiconductors meant vehicles could not be made.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Sandpiper 4/28/2021 3:16:37 AM (No. 769225)
Ahh yes, ... shortages ....
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 4/28/2021 3:34:44 AM (No. 769227)
Just another way to hike the price.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
fishbone 4/28/2021 4:25:58 AM (No. 769240)
Just keep your old ones going. Prices for new are just too high for the actual value of the vehicle.
26 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
franq 4/28/2021 5:59:58 AM (No. 769257)
New vehicles are like smart phones. Lots of hidden technological capability.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 4/28/2021 7:05:07 AM (No. 769286)
Bring back the '67 VW Beetle.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
fordtran 4/28/2021 7:15:30 AM (No. 769292)
The article mentions "global shortage" and shortages "around the world" but there is no mention of where the chips are manufactured. China, perhaps?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Fosterdad 4/28/2021 7:26:33 AM (No. 769302)
I bought a Chevy Colorado a year ago. Yesterday, I took it to the dealer for an oil change. They had absolutely no Colorados in stock. None. And they had a total of three new Silverados on the lot. Normally they would have about 15-20 Colorados and at least 50 Silverados. Not now they don't. One of the salesmen asked me if I'd trade in my Colorado. I said that I'd still need a truck and they don't have any. Looks like a picked a good time to buy a truck.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Highlander 4/28/2021 7:38:14 AM (No. 769314)
If this keeps up, considering the political winds blowing nowadays, we’ll eventually come to this:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fmYReRxWrtU/TuKaKYodyXI/AAAAAAAAHug/NkNkKTcTiSU/s1600/Horse-pulling-car.jpg
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/28/2021 7:48:00 AM (No. 769323)
Car manufacturers will do what the smart phone people have done. They will make them so that when the battery goes dead you need a new one.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
cor-vet 4/28/2021 8:12:32 AM (No. 769350)
As a member of a classic car club, and the owner/driver of a couple of classics, I think I can handle it. I don't need a vehicle that parks itself, tells me I'm too close to the car in front and that there is something behind me.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
wakeupcall 4/28/2021 8:36:06 AM (No. 769377)
Globalists want maximum profit not American's working to support their self and families.
'U.S. companies have led the world in chip technology for decades, but,
only about 12% of the world’s semiconductor manufacturing is done in America'.
https://fortune.com/2020/06/30/america-tech-semiconductor-manufacturing-investment/
Semiconductors are the engine of the global economy—and America isn’t making enough of them.
by Keith Jackson
June 30, 2020
As the brains of modern technology, semiconductors are essential to America’s economic strength, its national security, and its response to the COVID-19 pandemic and future crises.
U.S. companies have led the world in chip technology for decades. But only about 12% of the world’s semiconductor manufacturing is done in America, owing largely to heavy subsidies from competing governments. Addressing this challenge and strengthening U.S. semiconductor manufacturing and research is the space race of our time.
America’s economic growth and national security rely on cutting-edge semiconductors to stay ahead of global competitors. Looking forward, the country that leads in advanced chip design and production also will have a big leg up in the global race to deploy new game-changing technologies, such as 5G, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing.
Read the complete article......
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/28/2021 8:36:28 AM (No. 769378)
Unionize everything, that will fix it, or just buy Japanese, they never seem to have problems or shortages. Donald Trump would have had this fixed in the blink of an eye.
15 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Bassman1911 4/28/2021 9:02:48 AM (No. 769409)
I agree #10. I also don’t need a car that is completely controlled by a computer that I have no control over or a car that the government can track every movement of.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 4/28/2021 9:06:43 AM (No. 769416)
I hear that Cuba has some 50's Chevys for sale that are in fair condition.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
reefdiver 4/28/2021 9:26:47 AM (No. 769438)
Why don't the tech billionaires put some of their money into US production facilities, give Americans jobs and help the country? Of course we know why, they are only about greed. I sure miss Trump.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 4/28/2021 9:28:10 AM (No. 769442)
If GM made cars which run on wind power - - they wouldn't need computer chips.
From now on - - let's all sail up the avenues.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
NamVet70 4/28/2021 9:47:44 AM (No. 769471)
He owns that problem. Anyone who thought offshoring their supply chain was a good idea deserves to take credit for creating the problem.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
HotRod 4/28/2021 9:49:45 AM (No. 769476)
''BigTech'' is doing to vehicles what it's doing to the media! I resisted electric windows and door locks for years. Those things are nothing now. People do want their shiny objects, bells, and whistles though. I just wish there were some better choices for the rest of us!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Hazymac 4/28/2021 9:53:06 AM (No. 769485)
Shortage of silicon?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
NamVet70 4/28/2021 9:54:40 AM (No. 769488)
We have a lot of idle facilities in the USA because the chip production was moved offshore. It will take time to bring that back. Biden's policies won't help. One really important concern is the ability to produce military equipment and supplies. I suspect we can't even produce uniforms for the troops. If our government had any sense we would be adjusting taxation and tariffs to assure essential industries stayed in the USA.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Muguy 4/28/2021 9:56:57 AM (No. 769493)
Still waiting for Government Motors to pay back the oer $30 BILLION Nobama gave them to cut out certain brainds.
If you will remember, Lee Iaccoca PAID BACK the $100 million he got to save Chrysler....
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/28/2021 9:57:00 AM (No. 769494)
Hey GM, there are airplanes that carry freight...get your buddies in China to put the chips on THE airplanes and ship them next day...I won't charge you for this idea, even morons should know this!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
paral04 4/28/2021 10:30:29 AM (No. 769529)
That is what happens when you rely on off-shore manufacturing. These Harvard Business school geniuses aren't old enough or studied what happened during world wars when vital items were imported. If there is a war or crisis and shipping is limited you are in serious trouble. Import pocket books, and clothes, but not strategic items.
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#20 - I work in defense electronics. When it comes to chips, crystals, PWB's, and other critical components needed for today's communications and combat systems you can count on one hand the number of approved and RELIABLE U.S. manufacturers. It's fortunate that they cater to defense, which means they're expensive and therefore too expensive for the commercial market. Otherwise, the lead times would be even longer. We occasionally have to turn to suppliers in France but those lead times are guaranteed to be long.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DVC 4/28/2021 11:29:09 AM (No. 769597)
And how many of these shortages originate in China? ChiComs, strangling us.
It is stupid, stupid, SUICIDAL to let any of our critical production supply chains run back to China.
China is the ENEMY. Always have been since 1948.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
RussZilla 4/28/2021 12:11:37 PM (No. 769638)
Make them in the USA or make cars that don't need the chips.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 4/28/2021 12:18:47 PM (No. 769645)
Why is it just GM and Ford that have these problems?.
I was talking to an old friend last week, who lives in Kansas City. He just bought a new Subaru Outback. I asked him if he’d had any problem finding one, since I’d heard about production slowdowns related to chip shortages. He said he’d called three dealerships within 10 miles or so of his home, and they all had several in stock. He found just what he wanted.
About 20 years ago, I decided I would never buy another vehicle made by a U.S. manufacturer using union labor. My car repair bills have declined precipitously since then.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
iraengneer 4/28/2021 1:22:14 PM (No. 769720)
Until my recent retirement, I dealt professionally and extensively with several of the automotive OEM's, beginning with GM in the early 1980's. There is almost no account of incredibly stupid crap required by the bean-counters that have long mis-ruled that operation. Ford is little better, if at all. Blame the unions if you wish, but the origins of these problems go to the upper levels rather quickly. Lee Iacocca and H. Ross Perot were right, probably too kind in fact.
And again, The lousy policies of the MBA's and accountants come home to roost.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
TrueBlueWfan 4/28/2021 3:41:41 PM (No. 769842)
China gives us a deadly virus that locks our economy down, now they are holding back chips to bring down the auto industry. Why do I feel like they are just getting started?
Anyway, one of my kids has a Hyundai that is 2 yrs old with around 40 or 50 thousand miles. Needed new tires. Mechanic said they needed brakes and it would cost 1,000
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
TrueBlueWfan 4/28/2021 3:46:38 PM (No. 769846)
Sorry hit submit too soon!
$1000. We told the kid to go elsewhere because we always thought rotors on brakes could be grinded the first time brakes were needed. The new mechanic said they don't make them like that anymore. When you need brakes now, you need rotors too. The first mechanic was still lying, there is about 25% left on those brakes.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
toddh 4/29/2021 11:14:38 AM (No. 770598)
#19 - Only if the ecoterrorists have found out how silicon in refined and started limiting this extremely high carbon dioxide emission source. In the Earth's crust, silicon in second only to oxygen in popularity.
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