According to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), production was up 8.6 per cent to 58,043 units compared to the same time last year.
In 2021, the UK car industry saw the worst output for the month of July since 1956 as the sector struggled with ongoing staff shortages associated with the ‘pingdemic’ alongside strained supplies of semiconductors.
The chip shortage forced Ford, Jaguar Land Rover, Volkswagen, General Motors, Nissan, Daimler, BMW, Renault and Toyota to shut factories, scale back production or exclude high-end features such as integrated satellite navigation systems, which rely on sophisticated semiconductor technology.
US commerce secretary Gina Raimondo recently warned that the global semiconductor crisis is expected to last through 2023 and perhaps longer as manufacturing still struggles to keep up with demand.
Nevertheless, the SMMT said that the rising number of vehicles produced suggests that component shortages may...
