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Škoda Auto has shut down 20,000 unfinished cars

According to Škoda, the situation is not good. “Enyaq cars have not been produced in recent weeks and the Octavia has been driving incomplete without door panels from Grupo Antolin. In total, the Mladá Boleslav and Kvasiny plants produce approximately 2,300 cars (dailypozn. red.), previously it was not a problem to produce over 4,000 cars, “said KOMO Deputy Chairman of the Department Josef Zmrhal, according to the weekly.

The chairman of the works council, Jaroslav Povšík, stated that according to the latest information, no mass production shutdown is planned. According to him, we managed to secure the supply of chips. Production was also partially resumed by Grupo Antolin, which will once again supply door panels for the Octavia.

Karsten Schnake, a member of the Škoda Auto Board of Directors for Purchasing, said this week that the Ukrainian cable harness supplier has also resumed production, and that the Enyaq model will also resume production.

According to the unions, Škoda will cancel a number of shifts in some operations next week, and other shifts will be in a limited mode. Škoda has been struggling with the necessary cancellation of shifts on a regular basis for a long time.

Due to the shortage of semiconductors and the coronavirus pandemic, the carmaker delivered 878,200 cars to customers worldwide last year, which is 12.6 percent less year on year. The lack of chips meant that Škoda did not produce 280,000 cars.

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