by Ken Zino | Jun 18, 2010
A company called Ecotality has received another $15 million from the Department of Energy to provide free home chargers to the purchasers of Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf electric vehicles, a $1,000 to $2,000 saving courtesy of U.S. workers. This new Federal grant...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jun 18, 2010
Struggling to kick-start sales before its sibling Mercury division permanently closes its doors, Lincoln will offer a free maintenance incentive program that extends til the end of the summer. The program, which covers such routine repairs as brake linings and tire...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jun 18, 2010
How much of a market is there for battery cars and other “green” powertrain technologies? The answer seems to depend on who you ask and what your basic assumptions about fuel prices are, though there’s little doubt demand for alternative fuel vehicles is growing...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jun 18, 2010
Bob King, the newly-elected president of the United Auto Workers, is vowing to take on Toyota on multiple fronts and accused the Japanese auto giant of deliberately abandoning unionized workers in California. One of the top priorities for the UAW is organizing the...
by Ken Zino | Jun 18, 2010
Teamsters union General President Jim Hoffa joined newly elected United Auto Workers (UAW) President Bob King yesterday in a march down to Detroit’s banking district to “tell big banks and corporations that the assault on the middle class must end now.”...
by Bryan Laviolette | Jun 18, 2010
Within the next two years, several automakers will introduce new vehicles aimed at helping to solve the problem of reducing, if not eliminating our dependency on fossil fuels — but it seems that every maker is taking a different path to achieve that goal. Any...
by Bryan Laviolette | Jun 17, 2010
Chrysler is joining the smartphone craze with an app to help customers learn more about their vehicles and connect with other owners. The new owner information app, an industry first, will be introduced with the 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee, then rolled out for the rest...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jun 17, 2010
General Motors Company announced today that it plans to skip the traditional summer shutdowns in North America to help meet customer demand for new vehicles. GM said nine of 11 assembly plants would continue to operate during the traditional closure period, running...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jun 17, 2010
For the first time in its history, the influential J.D. Power Initial Quality Study shows that domestic auto brands have, overall, pushed past their import rivals. Detroit makers, on the whole, showed substantial improvement in the 2010 IQS, which measured...
by Ken Zino | Jun 17, 2010
Toyota is resuming construction of its Blue Springs, Mississippi plant that was put on hold in late in 2008 as the reckless practices of Wall Street caused the collapse of the global economy. Instead of building Prius hybrid models as previously announced, though, the...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jun 16, 2010
A tired looking Bob King was overwhelmingly elected to succeed Ron Gettlefinger as president of the troubled union. Gettlefinger retired after two terms, which saw the bankruptcies of General Motors and Chrysler and an unprecedented downsizing of union jobs. King...
