The lack of chips further slows carmaker BMW. Now production at the Regensburg plant will have to be stopped.

Disruption due to missing components with computer chips bmw Car production at the Regensburg plant. “We will not be producing next week,” said a spokesman for the automobile company of “AutomobilWatch”. Then all shifts will fail. After that, the venue will go into the planned summer vacation anyway, which will last only a week in Regensburg this year. Production will resume from August 9.

Lack of chips: relocated with brake

The Leipzig plant had previously ceased production. Four of the five production days were lost that week. The location will also go into summer break in the coming weeks.

According to the report, BMW had earlier confirmed that due to the shortage of semiconductors, there are currently bottlenecks in many places. In addition to plants in Leipzig and Regensburg, contract manufacturers Magna Steyr in Dingolfing, Oxford and Austria and VDL Nedcar in the Netherlands are also affected. The group did not provide any details about the individual locations.