BERLIN (Reuters) – Mercedes-Benz clients are going through waiting occasions of far more than a 12 months for their orders because of interruptions to output brought on by chip shortages, Daimler Chief Executive Ola Kallenius explained to a German newspaper in an job interview on Friday.
“Desire is large at Mercedes-Benz and at the similar time there are sad to say severe restrictions,” he told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “For some versions the waiting around periods are longer than we would like, in some cases more than a yr.”
Kaellenius recurring a past forecast that the difficulties with chip offer plaguing automakers all over the world would continue on into 2023, as structural troubles as nicely as pandemic-induced lockdowns in critical supplier nations around the world persist.
The delay in tailor made orders runs parallel with the concerns encompassing sky-rocketing seller charges for cars and trucks by now on the great deal. The markups on the Mercedes G-Course, as a person intense case in point, extend very well into the $100,000 selection.
(Reporting by Victoria Waldersee, Modifying by Louise Heavens)
