> you mean they used ocean freight on tiny light components (maybe hundred kg per 10K cars) to cut costs? :)
No… they used ocean freight because that’s how you ship assembled shit from China. This whole chip shortage thing is bullshit, it has nothing to do with the chips themselves, and everything to do with the cheap labor assembling hundreds of parts - many of them chips and electronics, but also not - into a single “part” to dodge import restrictions around how much of a car is made “foreign.” It’s insane how hard this is to communicate to people and how hard they’ve bought into the absolute bullshit.
No… they used ocean freight because that’s how you ship assembled shit from China. This whole chip shortage thing is bullshit, it has nothing to do with the chips themselves, and everything to do with the cheap labor assembling hundreds of parts - many of them chips and electronics, but also not - into a single “part” to dodge import restrictions around how much of a car is made “foreign.” It’s insane how hard this is to communicate to people and how hard they’ve bought into the absolute bullshit.
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