The semiconductor crunch that has battered the auto sector leaves carmakers with a stark choice: pay up, stock up or risk getting stuck on the sidelines as chipmakers focus on more lucrative business elsewhere reuters.com/article/us-aut…
Car manufacturers including Volkswagen, Ford and General Motors have cut output as the chip market was swept clean by makers of consumer electronics such as smartphones - the chip industry’s preferred customers because they buy more advanced, higher-margin chips
The semiconductor shortage - over $800 worth of silicon is packed into a modern electric vehicle - has exposed the disconnect between an auto industry spoilt by decades of just-in-time deliveries and an electronics industry supply chain it can no longer bend to its will
The €90 billion carmaker is mulling a listing of the Porsche division it has wholly owned since a major drama thirteen years ago reuters.com/article/us-vol…
It makes strategic sense as a significant way to bring in new Equity Cash, but might also be a source of fresh wrangling over price and control
The history is colourful
In 2007 Porsche’s then-parent group upped its VW stake in what looked like an effort to gain creeping control
Whatever the controlling Porsche-Piech family’s intentions, in 2008 it wound up sparking an epic short-squeeze of hedge funds who were betting against VW shares
Subsequent lawsuits and Porsche’s crushing debt pile eventually killed a plan for Porsche to merge with VW
1. For every 100,000 cars that Tesla makes, all other Automakers need to make 400,000 BEVs and consume >20 GWh of Battery Supply
- please show me that production and that Battery Supply
2. For every +100,000 units of new capacity that Tesla adds, all other Automakers need to add +400,000 units of new BEV Capacity and +20 GWh of new Battery Supply Capacity
- please show me that new BEV Production Capacity and that new Battery Supply Capacity
3. Why does this matter - PART 1
- because if all other Automakers do not do this, they will lose Global Market Share to Tesla