https://www.afinalwarning.com/515514.html (Natural News) The chief executive of the Ford Motor Company, one of America’s largest automakers, says he believes the company will lose half of its second-quarter production due to the ongoing semiconductor chip shortage. During the company’s first-quarter earnings call on Wednesday, April 28, Ford CEO Jim Farley proudly announced that the company was able to beat Wall Street’s expectations regarding its earnings. But he couched this statement by saying that it now expects to lose around 50 percent of its planned second-quarter production. Ford’s production for the first quarter already dipped by 17 percent due to a fire in the factory of Ford’s chip supplier, Renesas Electronics in Japan. (Related: Fire at Japanese chipmaker adds to collapsing microchip supply lines for automakers.)