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Top India Carmaker Says Output to Drop 40% on Chip Crisis

  • Maruti Suzuki sees ‘adverse impact’ on vehicle production
  • Carmaker expects a supply shortfall of electronic components

A Maruti Suzuki Alto vehicle at one of the automaker's showrooms in New Delhi.

Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg
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Maruti Suzuki India Ltd., the country’s largest carmaker by deliveries, expects output to plunge next month as the semiconductor shortage hits production.

Total volume could be about 40% of normal output in September, the company said in an exchange filing Tuesday.