by Joseph Szczesny | Jan 28, 2020
The White House has announced President Trump will visit a plant belonging to Dana Inc., an automotive supplier in Warren, Michigan, to tout the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which replaced NAFTA. The NAFTA replacement agreement was eagerly endorsed by automakers...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jan 28, 2020
Conventional wisdom suggests there are three major obstacles to widespread adoption of battery-electric vehicles: cost, range and the lack of a public charging infrastructure. But there’s another challenge: the time it takes to actually recharge an EV’s batteries...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jan 28, 2020
With more than 4,000 people in China now infected by the coronavirus and more than 100 dead, Chinese authorities are taking major steps in a bid to halt the spread of the disease, among other things limiting travel and shutting down some schools and factories where...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jan 27, 2020
General Motors will invest $2.2 billion in its 35-year-old Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant, transforming an aged factory that had been set to close into one of the most modern in its global network. The transformation will be completed next year, GM President Mark...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jan 25, 2020
As expected, lawyers for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles have filed a motion asking a federal judge to dismiss a racketeering lawsuit brought against the automaker by rival General Motors. GM filed its lawsuit in November claiming that FCA executives had bribed officials of...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jan 24, 2020
General Motors President Mark Reuss will make some electrifying news Monday, offering some of the first details about the automaker’s plan to transform the 35-year-old Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant into the manufacturing heart of its battery-car program. Spokesman...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jan 24, 2020
The White House is reversing itself on federal fuel economy standards, a draft resolution now calling for mileage to rise 1.5% annually through 2029 after originally scheduled to freeze at 2020 levels. The revisions come in the face of strong opposition from...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jan 24, 2020
A new poll commissioned by environmental activists found that Toyota, which has long boasted about its environmentally friendly vehicles and practices, is finding its reputation taking a beating after siding with the Trump administration on fuel economy standards....
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jan 23, 2020
Lincoln may have Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey, but Cadillac has lined up an equally prestigious Oscar winner, filmmaker Spike Lee set to sing the praises of the fifth-generation Escalade when the all-new SUV makes its debut next month. The 2021...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jan 23, 2020
Billionaire businessman and Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg wants to see the U.S. to completely switch to battery-electric vehicles by 2035. Outlining a key element of his promised White House strategy, dubbed “Clean Cars for All,” Bloomberg said...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jan 23, 2020
Former United Auto Workers Vice President Norwood Jewell reported to a federal correctional institution in Oxford, Wisconsin, to begin a 15-month for violations of the federal Labor Management Act. Jewell, 62, was sentenced to a prison term last August after he...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jan 22, 2020
Daimler AG continues to deny cheating on emission tests despite the fact that the costs associated with its defense grows as the company’s operating income weakens. Daimler said Wednesday that it will set aside between 1.1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) and 1.5 billion...
