Porsche installs dummy chips in cars

Due to the global shortage of semiconductors, Porsche installs dummy chips in cars. "We manage our production programs every day with great effort and creativity and can use it to cushion something - for example we produce vehicles with so-called dummy chips," said Porsche boss Oliver Blume of the "Stuttgarter Zeitung" and the "Stuttgarter Nachrichten". "As soon as the real chips are available, we will retrofit these vehicles." According to the information, it is about a low five-digit number of vehicles. In this way, Porsche is "literally making a virtue out of necessity," continued Blume. "We always make sure that our customers don't have to wait too long." Porsche has "a certain priority" within the Volkswagen Group because of its highly profitable models. In the second half of the year, the company wants to catch up on the weekends. "But that also depends on the availability of semiconductors." Despite the semiconductor shortage and the Corona crisis, the sports car manufacturer is on record course. In the first half of the year, Porsche achieved an operating profit of 2.8 billion euros, which corresponds to an increase of 127 percent. The return on sales was around 17 percent. "This is a half-year result that we reported in 2014 as a full-year result," said Blume. He cites the product strategy as the reason for the success. One example is the fully electric Taycan. "In the first half of the year, we were able to deliver almost 20,000 Taycans - which means that the volume of the entire previous year has practically already been reached."