Audi: stops production of A4, A5 and A8 due to lack of semiconductors

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It is not; an easy time for the automotive industry. Or rather, the current world situation, between the war in Ukraine and the shortage of semiconductors, presents all companies with difficult challenges to overcome, but the world of four wheels, in this, perhaps does more; fatigue of other sectors. Audi , like many other manufacturers, precisely because of the difficulties & agrave; in the procurement of raw materials and components i, it is forced to stop the production of some of its key models.

WHO BLOCKS AND WHO NOT

Specifically, the Ingolstadt company declared that from 16 to 20 May it will suspend & agrave; the lines of its factory in Neckarsulm from which exit A4, A5 and A8 . The House does not exclude sudden changes and different decisions in the very short term based on the evolution of the situation, but for the moment it is; forced to a forced stop. The family of A6/A7 models, on the other hand, will continue; to be produced regularly, always in Neckarsulm. This also applies to the sporty R8 and e-tron GT models, which are built at the Boellinger Hoefe plant in Heilbronn. Audi has also extended the reduced working hours for employees at the Neckarsulm and Ingolstadt plants until 31 May, again due to difficulties; in the supply chain.

C '? ALSO A PROBLEM WITH ELECTRICS

The decision of the House of the Four Rings comes a few days after the statement by Herbert Diess, number one of the Volkswagen Group, who reported that the demand for electric cars significantly exceeds the capacity; productive to the point that the totality of electric vehicles in Europe and the United States for 2022 & egrave; exhausted. There & ograve; means that the new orders placed now (at least for most electric models) will be fulfilled in 2023.

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