Honda Cuts Output at Some North American Plants on Chip Shortage
Workers on the vehicle assembly line at a Honda manufacturing plant in Ontario.
Photographer: Peter Power/AFP/Getty ImagesHonda Motor Co. is cutting or suspending production at some of its North American plants due to a shortage of critical semiconductors that threatens to spread throughout the industry’s automotive supply chain.
The automaker temporarily made the adjustments to output at unspecified vehicle assembly factories as of this week, a company spokesman said Wednesday in a statement that didn’t provide an estimate of how long they’d be impacted.