Japanese automakers' domestic output falls nearly 50% in Sept

Toyota will be fine.

No-one has any fuel to put in them anyway.

Ah, poor Toyota. They'll probably only make 700bn yen in profit instead of 1000bn. My heart truly bleeds.

9 million vehicles a year, multiplied by umpteen large vehicle manufacturers orldwide, that's a hell of a lot of vehicles, and a hell of a lot of energy and resources and actual and potential pollution of one sort and another.... can't see COP shifting that mindset....

The world cannot keep on buying cars.

Our world is getting smaller and smaller, a chip shortage supplied by Taiwan chocked the world auto industry, a virus from China brought to world economy on it's knees, water shortage in north Africa and Australia is shutting down the food chain supply, and too much water and rising sea levels are forcing millions to move to higher grounds.

It goes to show that our world is so interconnected that no nation can go it alone or sustain it's economy alone, never did and never will.

And the price of Gasoline is shooting sky high, today it is 162 yen/ ltr. for regular gas !!!? in prepration for Christmas and the new year i guess.

People don't get it!! When you see a big void like this, the powers that be use every other excuse to mask what is really being done. Think CLIMATE CONTROL!!!! In other words they say chip shortage but these companies are really busy doing is slowing down the production of gas generated vehicles and getting the necessary tooling in place for revamping their operations to shift to "ELECTRIC Vehicles".

In other words they say chip shortage but these companies are really busy doing is slowing down the production of gas generated vehicles and getting the necessary tooling in place for revamping their operations to shift to "ELECTRIC Vehicles".

Question: Where does all that electricity come from to power millions of electric cars?

Answer: The vast majority of it comes from fossil fuel plants. In fact, to power a huge shift from gasoline to batteries a lot of new power plants will need to be constructed. The only plants proven to be reliable are nuclear and fossil fuel ones. Since Warmist’s are dead set against nuclear power - well, you get the point…

People don't get it!! When you see a big void like this, the powers that be use every other excuse to mask what is really being done. Think CLIMATE CONTROL!!!! In other words they say chip shortage but these companies are really busy doing is slowing down the production of gas generated vehicles and getting the necessary tooling in place for revamping their operations to shift to "ELECTRIC Vehicles.

Sigh. Good grief, everything isn't some grand conspiracy. During the pandemic people began buying a lot of home electronics to support teleworking and distance learning for their kids, spiking demand for chips for the electronics industry. Car sales meanwhile had slumped so chip manufacturers shifted production to making chips for computers and such. They were not prepared for the sudden surge in car sales and cannot meet the combined demand of both markets. Covid restrictions and new working arrangements have wrought havoc on the ability of firms to plan for future demand and we see that in the many supply chain disruptions we are experiencing. Governments in most nations cannot tell private firms how much of what product to produce and when. In competitive market economies like the ones we mostly live in those decisions are left up to individual firms to make and the chip makers made some incorrect guesses when making production decisions. That is all it is.

Sigh. Good grief, everything isn't some grand conspiracy.

After years of peddling conspiracies somehow now there are no longer loads of conspiracies going on. You sure have begun to change your tune in the last 10 months or so.

Sigh. Good grief, everything isn't some grand conspiracy.

After years of peddling conspiracies somehow now there are no longer loads of conspiracies going on. You sure have begun to change your tune in the last 10 months or so.

Sigh. Good grief, everything isn't some grand conspiracy.

After years of peddling conspiracies somehow now there are no longer loads of conspiracies going on. Sigh …

Sigh. Good grief, everything isn't some grand conspiracy.

After years of peddling conspiracies somehow now there are no longer loads of conspiracies going on. Sigh …

Sigh. Good grief, everything isn't some grand conspiracy.

After years of peddling conspiracies somehow now there are no longer loads of conspiracies going on. Sigh …

There is electricity generated but not used. Overnight generation is underused. Homes with solar panels can also charge their EV's.

So pray tell how are my solar panels supposed to recharge my car when my car and I are away from home at work? They are not going to recharge the car overnight. Think a bit before you write some of these things.

Overnight generation is underused.

The hours of greatest residential electricity demand where I live is 4:00pm to 9:00pm. Lowest residential demand is mid-day 8:00am to 4:00pm, based on our utility bills. During those day time hours most are away from home working and rates are lowest,

Lol. Yeah let's ignore Tesla. They keep breaking records and surpassing all expectations. CEO of Toyota even made ads bragging about never Electric for Toyota. Ridiculous!

Toyota executives even tried to ask the congress in USA to delay the transition to EV cars adoption because Toyota is behind and needs more time! You don't see Tesla asking for more time, why? ?

Tesla got it right and they represent the future.

1 I am not understanding the problem with getting Computer chips for all of the automotive companies, not just Toyota. Usually some chip manufacturer switches over production lines to pick up the slack. 2 Why is Toyota dragging it's feet on EV's? Honda and Mitsubishi are not. EV's are the future of the automotive industry and like Lee Iacocca said, "Lead, follow or get out of the way"

What's up with all of the duplicate posts?

 I am not understanding the problem with getting Computer chips for all of the automotive companies, not just Toyota. Usually some chip manufacturer switches over production lines to pick up the slack.

When mass shutdowns and quarantines began in March 2020, auto manufacturers anticipated a huge drop in new car demand. So they reduced sales forecasts and cancelled part orders for components like microchips. Demand for new cars did indeed drop, but only temporarily. By the time automakers realized that Americans still wanted to buy new vehicles, chip manufacturers had already taken on work from other companies to replace their cancelled orders. There are only a handful of chip manufacturers in the world. And all of those manufacturers are currently operating at full capacity. Adding new manufacturing facilities, also called foundries, takes years of planning and billions of dollars in investment. And even if these foundries had the capacity to build new chips, the process of doing so takes time. It requires on average 12 to 20 weeks to manufacture a single semiconductor.

 Why is Toyota dragging it's feet on EV's?

They see the future will be dominated by hydrogen fueled cars, not EVs. Given the choice between the two I would chose a hydrogen powered car so maybe Toyota is on to something? You are thinking like someone who lives in a big city. I live way out in an isolated desert town where summers are very hot and winters very cold. EVs do not make sense. That will be true all across the less developed world and many places in Canada, the US, Australia and most of Africa. Being able to refuel quickly will be essential when a simple trip for a doctors appointment in a modern gasoline powered car requires us to leave town with a full tank and the car will need to be filled up twice along the way to make it home. Add in those cold winters where the battery warmers use up almost half of your range and you might just start to understand why battery EVs are emphatically not the answer for much of the world. They might be an answer for city slickers but not for much of the world outside those fancy big cities.

Toyota, GM and Ford are the only carmakers hit by this chip shortage. The reason is their delay and reluctance to upgrade their circuit boards to modern standards.

Their PCB's were designed in the last century, in the late 1990's. They're paying the price now for being so cheap and complacent.

Toyota, GM and Ford are the only carmakers hit by this chip shortage. The reason is their delay and reluctance to upgrade their circuit boards to modern standards.

I guess that explains chip shortages and production shut downs at the VW/Audi factory in Bratislavia, the shutdown of a Hyundai line in Ulsan, shutdowns at Land Rovers Halewood plant and Jags at the Castle Bromwich plant, temporary halts at Mercedes plants in Bremen and Rastatt, production cuts of Minis at Regensburg, a 20% reduction in output by Mitsubishi specifically attributed to the chip shortage, or a shutdown at the Indiana Subaru plant. You know those Audis, Mercedes and Jags all have such outdated electronics in them, lol. Hey, Nissan didn't cut production. Maybe they should use more up to date stuff like Nissan uses. Right?

Notice that new EV's are doubling sales every year because the chips are not legacy chips. chip makers are not interested in restarting lines of obsolete chips.

The 3 I mentioned are the most affected, but of course others are too.

And the C class absolutely have legacy PCB and electronics.