The backorders account for almost 15% of the 6.66 million vehicles the Korean duo sold globally in 2021 and 13% of its initial 2022 sales forecast.
Due to a shortage of wiring harnesses as well as semiconductors, Kia’s domestic facilities only operated at 82 percent of capacity in the previous month. 40,000 automobiles are currently in the waiting process at Kia factories in the United States, Mexico, Slovakia, and India.
According to the article, delivery periods can be as lengthy as 18 months. The Hyundai IONIQ 5, Kia Sorento Hybrid, Sportage Hybrid, EV6, Genesis GV70 and GV60 are a few of the most affected vehicles. The majority of them are electric cars, whose popularity has increased dramatically recently as a result of sharply rising petrol prices.
According to researchers, the worldwide chip scarcity will likely continue through 2023 and through 2022.
Sales of new vehicles fell by 12.3 percent in Canada and 16.6 percent in the United States during the first quarter of 2022. Additionally, there was a little decline from the last quarter of 2021.
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Does Kia have a microchip shortage?
The continuous global shortage of semiconductor chips continues to have an impact on the output of South Korean automaker Kia Motors Corp., which recorded a fall in sales of 212,819 vehicles, or about 6 percent, year over year, according to The Korea Herald citing Yonhap.
Is the chip scarcity affecting Kia and Hyundai?
Seoul: Due to the effects of the global chip shortage on auto production, Hyundai Motor and its affiliate Kia reported on Monday that their car sales continued to decline last month.
According to Yonhap News Agency, Kia’s sales decreased 5.8 percent to 238,538 from 253,287 over the same period, while Hyundai Motor’s sales decreased 12 percent to 308,788 vehicles from 349,184 units a year earlier.
The two South Korean automakers will alter vehicle production in their global plants and introduce “new, competitive” models to lessen the effects of interrupted semiconductor supply chains, according to Hyundai.
Global automakers like BMW and Volkswagen previously predicted that the chip shortage would start to relieve this year, but that won’t happen until 2024.
Hyundai’s domestic sales last month decreased by 15% to 59,415 units from 70,219 a year earlier, while its international sales decreased by 11% to 249,373 from 278,965 over the same time.
Last month, Kia’s domestic sales decreased by 2% year over year to 50,095 units from 51,128 units, while its international sales down by 6.8% to 188,443 units from 202,159 units.
Hyundai’s sales from January to April down 10% to 1,211,733 vehicles from 1,349,012 units a year earlier, while Kia’s sales slipped 2% to 924,277 from 943,277.
The lockdown in Shanghai and the high cost of raw materials due to the conflict in Russia and Ukraine, according to Hyundai, are expected to continue to be big problems for automakers in the second quarter.
Hyundai plans to sell 4.32 million automobiles in 2022, 10% more than the 3.89 million it sold the previous year. See also:
Why are new automobile chips in low supply?
The metalloid components known as semiconductors are used to create microchip processors, which are then utilized to create a variety of electronic gadgets such as smartphones, televisions, internet routers, thermostats for the home, and many more. Electronics are now a standard feature in cars and trucks, therefore they too have them.
Every car, according to Abuelsamid, contains between two and thirty microprocessors that regulate everything from the infotainment panels to the fuel management and stability control. According to him, high-end luxury cars and automobiles with high-tech features like enhanced safety systems and driver assistance features may have 100 or more processors inside.
More than 14 million automobiles were sold by manufacturers in the U.S. in 2020, up from more than 17 million the year before, necessitating the yearly consumption of hundreds of billions of microchips.
The primary causes of the chip scarcity are still pandemic-related manufacturing closures and disruptions in consumer demand, even two years after COVID-19 first shocked the globe with its shutdowns. In order to protect workers’ safety and deal with a sharp decline in demand for new automobiles, automakers closed operations in 2020. As a result, they canceled semiconductor purchases.
Due to the desire for individuals to work and enjoy themselves at home, demand for computers and other electronic gadgets increased at the same time. Toward the end of 2020, vehicle manufacturing began to operate again, and sales began to increase significantly. Microchip producers were unable to meet the burgeoning demand.
To make matters worse, early in 2021, a fire at a chip factory in Japan and a significant blizzard in Texas disrupted the already fragile semiconductor supply chain. The supply of neon gas, which is heavily used in the semiconductor production process, has also recently been interrupted by the conflict in Ukraine, according to Abuelsamid. In the world, neon is supplied by Ukraine to the tune of 60%.
“Chip providers claim to have sizable neon inventories, so aside from the current shortages, there may not be much of a short-term impact, he says.
What does that mean for customers then? According to Abuelsamid, businesses that haven’t previously provided chips to the auto industry are now volunteering their assistance. Additionally, major chip producers like TSMC are expanding their operations.
But according to Abuelsamid, it will take longer than a few months for chip producers to adapt their production to the current demand for new cars. The esoteric nature of the semiconductor sector, which experiences its own supply bottlenecks as the small number of businesses who provide the machinery for their manufacturing facilities, or “fabs,” compete to satisfy rising demand on their end, only makes the situation worse. According to Abuelsamid, it will take some time for the advancements now being made by semiconductor businesses to significantly affect the supply of new cars.
He predicts that new automobile buyers will undoubtedly spend more, at least through 2022 and possibly longer.
The majority of automakers are having to reduce their manufacturing, which results in a low inventory of new items on dealer lots. Low inventory implies fewer or no new car discounts and special offers.
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Is there still a lack of microchips for new cars?
Nearly halfway through 2022, the anticipated global microprocessor shortage is still having a disastrous effect on the auto industry. Dealer lots appear to be empty, “market adjustments” are heavily used to inflate new car costs, and popular new models like the Ford F-150 Lightning, Bronco, and Maverick are hard to find. According to a recent study from Automotive News, these problems have prevented the construction of millions of cars.
According to an ongoing industry count from AutoForecast Solutions (AFS), the sector is currently short more than 2.2 million vehicles globally for the whole year. This new figure indicates an increase of more than 10% from the group’s prior year-to-date total and provides a very pessimistic forecast for the remainder of the year’s new car sales.
AFS estimates that North American assembly plants will account for the majority of the cutbacks. Of the 234,200 vehicles that have been added to the total, almost 88 percent (or 205,200 units) are cars and trucks that were supposed to be produced in North America but have instead ended up on the cutting room floor rather than a dealer’s lot. The expected year-to-date deficit of vehicles made in North America now stands at 780,800 units.
Despite the fact that North America’s figures aren’t looking good for the year, it isn’t the region that has been impacted the most globally. This sad honor goes to Europe, where a manufacturing loss of 794,100 vehicles is anticipated. The semiconductor shortage has also affected an additional 107,300 devices in China, 437,900 in the rest of Asia, 98,200 in South America, and an additional 12,000 in the Middle East and Africa.
While 2,230,400 units have already been destroyed globally this year, according to AFS, 3,040,861 will be added to the total. Although that may sound like a lot (and it is), there is a little glimmer of hope that the worst may now be behind the car sector.
According to AFS’s forecasts, this year will see a total increase of 810,461 vehicles lost to the microprocessor shortage, a rise of around 36% over the units lost thus far in 2022. It’s crucial to remember that the year is almost halfway over, so as shortages subside, product availability should start to improve. This reflects the attitude expressed by Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford, earlier this year, and suggests that part shortages may ease in the second half of 2022.
The biggest question is whether greater availability will contribute to a reduction in exorbitant car prices any time soon. Even if the availability appears to be improving, there is still a sizable shortage that may not be resolved until 2023 or later.
For how long will there be a chip shortage?
Briefly, the shortage will have persisted for 24 months until it ends, which is comparable to the length of the 20082009 chip shortfall, according to Deloitte. Separately, a few industry insiders predict that the chip scarcity afflicting the semiconductor and electronics sectors would likely lessen in the second half of this year, once the automotive-related backlog has been cleared.
The chip scarcity may have had the most impact on the automotive industry.”
According to Gartner’s research VP Andrew Norwood, shortages in the supply chain during the post-Covid economic recovery in 2021 severely hurt the automotive sector.
The prevailing assumption is that the global chip scarcity may start to relieve by the second part of this year, while some automakers are less certain. According to Reuters, German carmaker Volkswagen predicts that the semiconductor scarcity will continue in the first half of 2022 and should somewhat improve in the second.
Other automakers, including General Motors, Ford, and Hyundai, believe that the chip scarcity would alleviate in the second half of this year in a separate Reuters story, although automotive semiconductor manufacturers NXP and Infineon have predicted that supply will remain limited.
“Infineon CEO Reinhard Ploss was reported by Reuters as stating in an investor call that supply constraints are far from over and will go far into 2022. Infineon is afraid that the spread of the Omicron type of the virus would force China to close plants and restrict supply. The report stated that NXP had stated that the industry will not be able to resolve the supply-demand imbalance this year.
Lingering but with less severity
Deloitte Global predicts that while the shortage will continue through 2022, it won’t be as bad as it was in the fall of 2020 or for the majority of 2021, and it won’t affect all chips. Customers had been waiting between 2052 weeks by mid-2021 for a variety of semiconductors, the company claimed. This caused factory delays or shutdowns, which resulted in revenue losses in the tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars.
It anticipates that lead times will be closer to 1020 weeks by the end of 2022, and that the industry will be finally in equilibrium by the beginning of 2023. “Given that there is a good chance that chip shortages will continue into 2022, everyone should be ready for lengthier lead times and potential delays. According to Deloitte, the extent of these will probably vary by industry and application.
However, there is one significant obstacle that producers, distributors, and equipment providers of semiconductors must overcome: the boom-and-bust cycle that the sector is renowned for. According to Deloitte, “Historically, every shortage has been followed by a period of oversupply, which has led to declining prices, revenues, and profits.
How long ago did the chip scarcity begin?
The US Department of Commerce placed limitations on Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) in September 2020 as part of the trade dispute between China and the US, making it more difficult for them to do business with organizations with American connections.
[17] Due to these limitations, businesses were obliged to employ facilities like Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC). [18] Nevertheless, these businesses were already operating at full capacity. [19]
Prior to its first public offering, GlobalFoundries, a U.S.-based chipmaker that formerly served as AMD’s semiconductor manufacturing arm, shut down its sole facility in China in 2020. However, the 65,000 square meter plant in Beijing never started producing the 300 mm wafers as planned. [20]
Who provides Hyundai with chips?
Hyundai also succeeded in containing expenses since they continued to purchase from chip manufacturers and major auto part suppliers like Bosch and Continental before the shortage got worse.
“As a result, Hyundai was able to first secure car chips and then purchase them at a discount, according to Kim Jin-woo, analyst at Korea Investment & Securities.
These vendors, including Telechips, who outsources fabrication to Samsung Electronics, are likely to give Hyundai priority because Hyundai is a major source of revenue for them, according to analysts.
One source who has firsthand knowledge of Hyundai’s purchasing practices claimed that since late last year, the business has diversified suppliers for at least one chip.
Hyundai announced on Thursday that it would shut down a South Korean factory for five days in March to modify the inventory of several vehicles.
“On an earnings call last month, Kia stated, “We wouldn’t claim we are prepared for the next three to six months, but we could tell you that we are not seeing any immediate production impact.”
Two of the three people claimed that Hyundai is still becoming increasingly concerned. According to one of them, the corporation is seeking to lock down supply contracts sooner and is reviewing inventory more often.
The union representative claimed Hyundai had informed the union last week that although it had “acquired a lot of chips,” things were starting to get challenging.
The insider with intimate knowledge of auto chip production claimed that clients are trying to exert as much pressure as they can, while suppliers are strategic about which order they meet.
Before things get better, they’re going to get worse.