Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Ford will start shipping Explorers without all the parts — and add them later
Automakers have been struggling to keep up with the demands. Unfortunately, it’s not because the demands are higher than their production capacities but because they cannot build as many cars as they could because of the year-and-half-long computer chip shortages. Nowadays, chips are an integral part of vehicle production. So many features are controlled by computer chips to drive and navigate a car and provide safety features and in-car climate controls. Missing just one chip stops the vehicle’s production. But not all the chips are equally essential to drive the car. There are chips that could be missed at the time of delivery but added at a later time, such as rear-seat climate control and auto-engine stop-start feature. Well, if you don’t have a car, you can’t go anywhere, why not bear minor inconvenience? Also, it is the right time to sell your old car as the resell prices have reached a record high level due to the supply shortage. Recently, Ford Motor Company announced that it will deliver some vehicles without non-essential chips and add the missing chip when it becomes available at no extra cost to the car buyer. They don’t seem to need to offer additional incentives as buyers are already waiting in line.
Enjoy reading the article and learning about how automakers are trying to ship as many cars as they can.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/14/business/ford-gm-eliminate-options-chip-shortage/index.html
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