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Carmakers are working to secure supplies of materials from lithium, nickel, and manganese for batteries to magnesium for car components.

The vehicles, 2021-2022 Model S and Model X, 2017-2022 Model 3, and 2020-2022 Model Y fail to comply with a federal motor vehicle safety standard on "Occupant Crash Protection" because the chime does not activate.

The Japanese industrial conglomerate will build a cutting-edge 300-millimeter fabrication plant in central Japan for power management chips, which efficiently control electric power in cars, electronic devices and industry equipment.

The new methodology could mean some carmakers, who in 2021 sold almost as many plug-in hybrids in Europe as they did battery-electric vehicles (BEVs), would need to sell more BEVs to meet EU emissions targets and avoid sizeable fines.

Production at factories in Michigan, Chicago, and Cuautitlan, Mexico will be suspended.

Ford Motor Co is planning additional investment of up to $20 billion in building its electric vehicles, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday.

Data released by European Automobile Manufacturers' Association showed that self-charging hybrid cars outsold diesel cars in Europe for the first time in 2021, albeit by just 48 vehicles.

Volvo, which has been heavily impacted by sector-wide supply-chain constraints and semiconductor shortages, warned last year that the chip shortage would continue into 2022.