DETROIT (Reuters) – Common Motors Co is greater than midway via delivery newly meeting pickups that it had then parked resulting from a scarcity of semiconductor chips that prevented the No. 1 U.S. automaker from delivery the vehicles, a prime govt stated on Friday.
“We have made nice progress,” Steve Cralisle, GM’s North American chief govt stated on the Reuters Occasions Automotive Summit. “We’re a bit higher than midway via that in the mean time and our aim could be to filter our ’21 mannequin years by the top of the 12 months. We’ll have a little bit of a tail of ’22 mannequin years into the brand new 12 months however not for too lengthy.”
The worldwide chip scarcity has compelled automakers like GM to idle manufacturing or in some circumstances largely construct automobiles after which park them till the mandatory chips will be put in, permitting these automobiles to be then shipped to sellers.
(Reporting by Ben Klayman)
