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Bloomberg
Mitsubishi Motors Corp will cut production by as many as 16,000 cars globally next month due to the chip shortage, according to a company spokesperson, latest automaker to succumb to the malaise that’s gripped the world’s automobile industry.
The Japanese automaker produced 90,745 units globally in January and 88,754 cars in February, according to its website, so that trim represents almost one-fifth of total output. Mitsubishi said in March that it would reduce its domestic output of vehicles by 4,000 to 5,000 units that month and was reviewing its production plans for April.
The list of carmakers idling factories around the world over the global semiconductor shortage is growing, a sign the
supply-chain challenge is only intensifying.