ICE vehicle makers have reduced their production in the past years. They had a number of different (plausible) excuses for that. I think we now know what the 2023 excuse for Toyota ist....
... the 2023 excuse for Toyota is.... drum roll... an unknown error in their parts management system! I give them that they are creative! Well done Toyota! (Context: Toyota will shutdown their production today for the lack of parts) - thanks @jpr007!
@jpr007 More context:
.... and here is the reason^H^H^H the excuse why VW will stop production...
... this VW flooding is persistent: now they are laying off people and talk about restarting production in October:
Another piece of news from @VW - this time they close the production in Dresden (not just temporarily): automobilwoche.de/bc-online/vw-s…
I will add this here - thanks @SawyerMerritt and @TSLAFanMtl...
More legacy car makers not being able to keep up:
VW is now learning from Toyota! An IT challenge currently halts all VW production:
tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unt…
Got one more: "shortage of electrical motors"... A pity you can't do anything about that... 🤷♀️
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