Lindsay Chappell

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.

The auto industry just went through a year of challenges and hairpin turns. But through it all, innovators delivered some clever new ideas.

If auto factory investments were hobbled in 2020, 2021 could be called the year when automakers made up for lost time.

Automakers are still shaving back production plans due to semiconductor shortages, but the worst-case scenario for North America just got a tiny bit better.

AFS signals that industry efforts to respond to the global microchip shortage are helping.

Automakers are continuing to cut back production plans, despite signals that the crisis may be easing.

After a couple of weeks that saw production cuts totaling fewer than 10,000 vehicles each, North American factories lost 84,000 vehicles last week because of the ongoing worldwide shortage of microchips.

North American auto plants have added just 4,000 vehicles to their tally of microchip-related production cuts.

North American auto plants appear to have stabilized their vehicle production schedules somewhat, for the moment.

Recent weeks have seen massive new cuts in vehicle production. But new data shows a leveling off.

The forecast is that the global industry will lose more than 8.5 million vehicles from its production plans before the crisis is over.

The forecast is that the global industry will lose more than 8.5 million vehicles from its production plans before the crisis is over.