Ford will soon sell vehicles without certain non-safety features.
Ford will soon start selling and shipping incomplete, but driveable vehicles that come without the chips that power certain non-safety features, according to a report from
. The automaker will instead ship the semiconductors to dealers within one year, which they will then install in customers’ vehicles after purchase.There still isn’t any information on the affected vehicle models or features. to ship partially-built, undrivable vehicles to dealers last year, but now, the unchipped vehicles will be both driveable, Ford’s decision comes as an attempt to move the partially-built vehicles crowding its factory lots. Last month, hundreds of newin the snow-covered lots near Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant, all of which await chip-related installations.
Like many other companies, Ford has been grappling with the constraints introduced by the chip shortage. Last year, a lack of semiconductors
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