Ford Motor stated Tuesday that it bought 483,688 vehicles and lightweight vans in the US within the second quarter, barely greater than it bought a 12 months earlier, when it was hit significantly exhausting by the worldwide scarcity of pc chips.
Virtually all automakers reported decreases in gross sales within the April-to-June interval as a result of the chip scarcity has prevented them from maintaining with demand.
The chip scarcity pressured Ford to shut many vegetation for lengthy stretches within the second quarter final 12 months, and its gross sales slumped. Its chip provide stays tight.
Even with its slight enhance, Ford trailed each Basic Motors and Toyota within the second quarter. G.M. bought 582,401 autos within the quarter, a decline of 15 %. Toyota bought 531,105 autos, a lower of 23 %.
Ford bought almost 300,000 F-Sequence pickup vans within the quarter, greater than double its whole from a 12 months earlier.
One other brilliant spot was its gross sales of electrical autos. Ford has bought 2,296 F-150 Lightnings, the electrical pickup, since beginning manufacturing in April. Gross sales of the Mustang Mach-E, an electrical sport utility automobile, totaled 10,941 within the quarter, up 72 % from a 12 months earlier.
