That just seems preposterous, if so I guess they should have followed Tesla's model on automotive wiring.

 

What I see going on, looking at the past few years ... It is the electronic chips that control the cars.
As these chips have not been available to purchase for the last few years .... New cars & trucks production has came to a stand still. .... New car lots have been empty except for the used cars they have managed to bring in.

We first need to correct these issues, then maybe address the wiring issues .... Nothing we can do with current issues.

 

They defiantly need to address the chip shortage first. Cascading events either way. Sourcing too much from one location.

 

Electric cars also have wiring harnesses. They're not made of magiconium.

 

That's what made the article sound like dribble.

 

Clickbait.

 

If I'm a carmaker, a wiring harness shortage might cause me to make fewer of a model I'm already phasing out, but in some cases it could cause me to extend the model's life to recoup more of my fixed costs.

A harness shortage is certainly not going to prevent me from continuing to build an IC car that's got 5 or 6 years left. What'd make me switch faster would be lower costs and thus more buyers for EV power trains and charging stations.

 

The major chip problem is because of the fact that most automotive electronics is based on older ic´s/ components and they have not coped with the electronics developement.

 

That's not really so - we are experiencing shortages of EVERYTHING - connectors, capacitors, resistors, diodes, newer FPGFAs, even cooling fans are out to 60 weeks.

 

The article is ridiculous. Any car will use a wiring harness, gas or electric. The steps for change in harness manufacturing could be applied to a gas or electric car.

 

What carries the current from the battery to the electric motor in an EV? Wouldn't be a....... wire....... would it???

 

I think some of you are missing the main point of the story, it's the war in Ukraine hindering the wiring harnesses for cars:

"Ukrainian government figures show 22 automotive companies have invested more than $600 million in 38 plants - many, though not all producing wire harnesses - employing over 60,000 Ukrainians."

Ukraine invasion hampers wire harness supplies for carmakers

Carmakers including Germany's Volkswagen , BMW and Porsche are struggling to obtain crucial wire harnesses as suppliers in western Ukraine have been shuttered by the Russian invasion, forcing them to curtail production.

www.reuters.com

 

No the main point of the story is that somehow wiring harness procurement issues are somehow going to cause problems for gasoline cars, but mysteriously not for electric cars. It’s a rather odd conclusion and makes the whole article worthless.

 

And they blame it all on the war in the Ukraine. Oh well, it is "yahoo" afterall. SMH

 

The same story from multiple sources, but it does appear to be limited to affecting car makers across the pond, and not so much in the US:

Russian invasion of Ukraine hits car makers

German car manufacturers lose a vital source

thewest.com.au

Wire Harness Shortage: War In Ukraine Affects Production Of Porsche, BMW

Plants in the cities of Stryi and Kolomyja produce high-quality components for the automotive industry, giving jobs to approximately 60,000 people.

www.motor1.com

Ukraine invasion hampers wire harness production for automakers - Autoblog

Volkswagen, BMW and Porsche are struggling to obtain crucial wire harnesses as suppliers in western Ukraine have been shuttered by the Russian invasion.

www.autoblog.com

https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2022-03-02/ukraine-invasion-hurts-flow-of-wire-harnesses-to-carmakers

 

All the article sounds like to me is...switch to EV's now now now! To say that wiring harnesses will be the death stroke to ICE cars sounds stupid. EV's use wiring harnesses just like ICE cars. The car makers just sound like they're making ridiculous excuses.

 

The war in Ukraine seriously hurt German automakers because they did rely heavily on Ukrainian plants which are now inoperable.
Just like American automakers were disproportionately affected by the Texas freeze.
South Korea has been laughing its way through all this.

 

Whenever global capacity is reduced, prices and lead times will be affected, since other countries directly affected may compete for the manufacturing capacity that you use.

 

Won't bother Stellantis here in the US much. Their new vehicles are always at least three years away. Plenty of time to move the source of components.

 

There is a difference between those articles. Most of them were clear that this was on part that affected mostly German automakers.
This particular one was worse because it pretended that it was somehow a gasoline-engine thing.