Lindsay Chappell

North American auto plants are holding firm on their production schedules this week, but the microchip shortage is still hovering over the year.

Any notion that the microchip shortage would be over by now is proving to be wishful forecasting. 

As the second full year of semiconductor shortages nears an end, automakers are still cutting cars and trucks off the schedule.

Unrelenting microchip shortages have taken another 96,700 vehicles out of automaker production schedules around the industry.

New ideas in how to control vehicles and how to build them better earn 11 suppliers a total of 12 Automotive News PACE Awards for 2022.

The industry is scrambling to build millions of EVs, and battery producers are considering new processes and supply chains.

After months of production setbacks because of scarce microchips, automakers appear to be getting some relief.

Bosch plans to spend more than US$3 billion to satisfy a growing demand for microchips in Europe — but the move could help ease the global chip shortage in general.

Auto plants in Europe and North America auto plants just cut another 104,000 vehicles out of their production plans because of chip shortages.

Hopes that the microchip shortage was easing off are proving premature. In the past 60 days, AFS has increased its forecast for lost 2022 production by 800,000 vehicles.

Plante Moran's annual automaker-supplier working relations study suggests automakers may be trying to play nicer with parts makers.

Despite COVID-19, chip shortages, a war and other supply chain crises, automakers delivered a wave of vehicles to showrooms since last fall. And most of them are significant offerings.

Auto factories in North America and Europe continue to rack up more lost production because of the lingering global microchip shortage, now well into its second year.

The industry is settling into the new year acknowledging that it's not out of the woods yet on chip shortage disruptions.

Factories in China made some production cuts due to chip shortages this week, but the rest of the world is running smoothly for the moment.