Toyota to halt production at two plants in Japan next month due to chip shortage, 20,000 vehicles affected

Toyota to halt production at two plants in Japan next month due to chip shortage, 20,000 vehicles affected

The ongoing global chip shortage continues to affect automotive production, this time at Toyota. While the world’s largest automaker by vehicle sales last year has weathered the effects of that shortage better than its immediate rivals, it isn’t immune, announcing that it will be halting production on assembly lines at two plants in Japan for up to eight days next month due to the shortage in semiconductors.

The halt in production, which represents the automaker’s first domestic output adjustment due to the issue, will impact the production of three models, namely the C-HR, the Yaris Cross and the Yaris hatchback, to the tune of 20,000 units, Kyodo News reports.

The company said a total of three lines will go offline for three to eight business days from June 7 at plants located in the northeastern prefectures of Iwate and Miyagi. However, the impact isn’t as severe as that being felt by other Japanese carmakers, at least for now.

Toyota to halt production at two plants in Japan next month due to chip shortage, 20,000 vehicles affected

Last week, Nissan said it would be making fewer cars this year due to the lack of chips. It forecast that its global production output will be down by approximately 500,000 units, but added that it is planning countermeasures to get production back up on track. Likewise, Mazda expects that its production will be reduced by 100,000 units in the current fiscal year.

Analysts predict that the semiconductor crisis, which emerged late last year, will last well into 2022, possibly into 2023. The historic shortfall in chips supply has forced many automakers to cut back on production, and experts believe this will result in millions of vehicle sales to be lost this year alone.

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Anthony Lim believes that nothing is better than a good smoke and a car with character, with good handling aspects being top of the prize heap. Having spent more than a decade and a half with an English tabloid daily never being able to grasp the meaning of brevity or being succinct, he wags his tail furiously at the idea of waffling - in greater detail - about cars and all their intrinsic peculiarities here.

 

Comments

  • Afeeq on May 19, 2021 at 6:35 pm

    REE from kedah for semiconductors incoming.

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  • Dong gor on May 19, 2021 at 8:53 pm

    Chip shortage comes at the right time…easier to explain to the board of directors whey sales slumped! What a relief for all the ceos around the world.

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  • When you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

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