Ford will idle its Kentucky plant this week amid semiconductor shortage

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Ford will idle its plant in Kentucky for a week as the automotive industry grapples with a curtailment of semiconductors, ABC News reported The automaker's batch plant in Louisville produces the Ford Escape and Lincoln Corsair SUVs, and employs anyway 3,900 hourly workers, according to CNBC. Ford said will take a planned one-week plant shutdown that had been appointed for latterly in the year and move it to this week instead.

Ford joins Nissan, which says it will reduce assembly at one of its plants in Japan, which makes the Note, a car not sold in the US. A Nissan stenographer said the semiconductor curtailment has not high-sounding the company's US production

Volkswagen, Passport Chrysler, and Toyota also have revealed problems with semiconductor totality chains, with Passport Chrysler temporarily shuttering factories in Canada and Mexico. Volkswagen said in December it had dirgeful some assembly of its vehicles at plants in North America, Europe and China.

Vehicles are using increasingly semiconductors than they have in the past for features like infotainment, passenger assist, and Bluetooth connections, and in contempo months, the demand for vehicles has outstripped the supply. Factories that manufacture semiconductors had to shut dropping during the coronavirus pandemic, which likewise unpaid to a delay in production of personal computers, and affected assembly of Apple's iPhone 12.

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