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After almost two years of chip shortages automakers are getting enough semiconductors to produce at full capacity.

The global semiconductors shortage that has troubled the auto industry for almost two years is showing signs of easing, at least for now.

Mecedes Benz, Daimler Truck Holding, and BMW are among automakers now getting enough of the high-tech components to produce at full capacity after experiencing crippling outages for months.

The breakthrough comes earlier than the companies predicted and marks a bright spot for an industry facing a deteriorating economy and inflation while managinf an historic transition to electric-vehicle production.

Manufacturers are cheering the chip-supply improvement but are not declaring victory yet.

“We are still monitoring it week to week, but up to now basically worldwide, we had no issues running production,” said Joerg Burzer, Mercedes’s head of production and supply-chain management. Supply issues occur “here and there,” he said, “but nothing compared to what it was like last year.”

Even as demand for cars boomed, automakers have had to curtail output as plants globally could not source enough chips critical for increasingly computerized vehicles.