The CEO of German luxury car brand Mercedes-Benz said on Wednesday (29th) that the global shortage of semiconductor chips will continue throughout the year until 2023.
“The situation in the semiconductor industry is very serious and the industry will continue to face challenges this year and into the next,” Mercedes Chief Executive Ola Kaellenius told the Archyde.com Automotive Europe conference in Munich.
However, Kaellenius also said that despite the turmoil in the chip market, the company still has a large number of orders and has not seen any signs of declining demand. role”.
“We’re not going to stop at the battery factory … we have to understand the entire value chain, because there’s so much going on,” Kaellenius said, adding that the transition of Mercedes’ engine plants to purely electric vehicles will It will take ten years, but he is confident that it will be managed in an orderly manner.