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Audi Hungaria was one of the first automakers in Europe to report production disruption caused by the chip squeeze.
Impact of global chip shortage on carmakers spreading across Eastern Europe, Turkey and Central Asia
Robert Anderson in Prague
The global semiconductor
chip shortage has so far hit manufacturing at automakers in countries including Romania, Turkey, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Uzbekistan, bne IntelliNews reports show.
The scarcity of chips has been caused by factors including a pandemic-led surge in demand for phones, TVs and gaming consoles from populations locked down under coronavirus restrictions. The situation lately prompted US President Joe Biden to sign an executive order as he pledged to seek $37bn in funding
in line with legislation to supercharge American chip production.
Here is a list of some of the companies known to have been impacted by the crisis:
Romania
Recently French group Renault announced another seven outage days at its Dacia car plant in Romania. A lack of semiconductors has caused interruptions at the plant since February.
"The company makes every effort to limit the impact [of the semiconductors crisis] on production. It is estimated that the peak of this deficit of electronic components could be in
the second quarter. The group's latest estimate, globally, taking into account
a production recovery in the second half, assesses the risk of approximately 100,000 vehicles for the current year," announced Dacia.
Czech Republic
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Czech Republic suspended its car production in Kolin for 14 days from March 22 due to insufficient stocks of semiconductors. It said some semiconductor shipments were held up because of snowstorms
in Texas.
The same problem was reported by Volkswagen-owned Czech car maker Skoda Auto. It said its production was