It's not just the chip shortage — automakers facing other supply chain disruptions
"With a vehicle that has hundreds of suppliers and thousands of components coming from those suppliers, it only takes one part from one supplier to stop the line," Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said in a
As automakers cashed in on pandemic-induced vehicle demand that left all sorts of markups on new and used vehicles, a lot of that profit didn't make its way to suppliers, experts say. "A lot of suppliers are very, very stretched," Ambrose Conroy, CEO at consultancy Seraph, said. If auto giants, especially those focused on high-end, luxury products, don't have enough cash to bail their parts-makers out and keep them solvent,"we're expecting a lot of financial distress," he said.
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