[JimTheMan]

A shortage is not inflation

[hirako2000]

Supply and demand change is what increases or decreases costs. If demand don't adapt, there will be inflation to force it to adapt :)

[JimTheMan]

'Inflation' is not the price increase of a single thing to demand/supply.

Inflation is the systemic increase in all costs of what a household would buy as money itself become less valuable.

Prices 'inflating' on a single product because there's a shortage of... base materials or whatever is not inflation as an economic term.

[hirako2000]

You are quite right. Except that you are implying other product will decrease in price while that one increases. Vehicles is a rather large market and an element of supply chain costs, chips are used across so many industries. I would rather expect the majority of product to see an increase in price. We can talk technical terms but my comment was a reflection of the markets at large.