{"id":113660,"date":"2022-07-07T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113660"},"modified":"2022-07-07T17:45:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T21:45:37","slug":"local-paper-south-carolina-automakers-cant-meet-demand-as-supply-chain-woes-hamper-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113660","title":{"rendered":"(Local Paper) South Carolina automakers can\u2019t meet demand as supply chain woes hamper production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina\u2019s automakers are building cars as fast as possible, but computer chip shortages and other supply chain issues have limited the number of vehicles making their way to U.S. dealerships and, ultimately, buyers\u2019 driveways.<\/p>\n<p>Volvo Cars, which builds the S60 sedan at its $1.2 billion manufacturing campus in Ridgeville, said it sold 8,434 cars to U.S. customers in June \u2014 a 31.2 percent decline in sales from last year. Sales are down 20.7 percent during the first half of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemand for our cars remains strong but inventory challenges continue,\u201d Anders Gustafsson, president and CEO of Volvo Cars USA, said in a written statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/business\/sc-automakers-cant-meet-demand-as-supply-chain-woes-hamper-production\/article_8f106508-fd52-11ec-9fee-4bc6ae9a274a.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">South Carolina\u2019s automakers are building cars as fast as possible, but computer chip shortages and other supply chain issues have limited the number of vehicles making their way to U.S. dealerships and, ultimately, buyers\u2019 driveways. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UZwxLzUeOW\">https:\/\/t.co\/UZwxLzUeOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/postandcourier\/status\/1544810925114269700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina\u2019s automakers are building cars as fast as possible, but computer chip shortages and other supply chain issues have limited the number of vehicles making their way to U.S. dealerships and, ultimately, buyers\u2019 driveways. Volvo Cars, which builds the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113660\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,54,589],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-corporationscorporate-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113663,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113660\/revisions\/113663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}