by Joseph Szczesny | Mar 4, 2020
General Motors is carefully monitoring the coronavirus outbreak around the world in a continuing effort to minimize its impact on the company’s employees and operations, GM executives said. “It’s real,” GM President Mark Reuss told reporters as he...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Mar 4, 2020
General Motors’ CEO Mary Barra has frequently declared that the automaker is “on a path to an all-electric future,” and officials for automaker today provided a rare deep dive into its electrification program, covering everything from the new battery technology it is...
by Joseph Szczesny | Mar 4, 2020
General Motors is making electric vehicle charging for employees even more accessible by making plans to install an additional 3,500 new EV charging plugs at the company’s facilities in the U.S. and Canada. The expansion will triple the number of charging locations...
by Joseph Szczesny | Mar 4, 2020
Monthly sales reports from several automakers indicated that new vehicle sales continued to roll along in February at a healthy clip. Hyundai, Kia, Subaru, Honda, Mazda and Mitsubishi all reported sizeable gains in February as sales of utility vehicles continued to...
by TDB Staff | Mar 3, 2020
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by TDB Staff | Mar 2, 2020
Affiliate Disclosure x The Detroit Bureau and its partners may be compensated if you purchase the recommended services. This allows us to provide in-depth research at no cost to you. Car insurance is one of the most important types of insurance. Unlike...
by Michael Strong | Feb 27, 2020
Those lukewarm to electric vehicles often cite the lack of public charging stations as one of the reasons for remaining quite happy with their gas- or diesel-powered vehicles. However, the State of Utah may eliminate range anxiety from the discussion. In Utah, the...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Feb 27, 2020
More than six decades after the first Chevrolet Impala rolled off the assembly line, the last of the big sedans will be built at the Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant today. The full-size four-door, along with other models like the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid, have...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Feb 27, 2020
The number of people killed in motor vehicle incidents last year dipped for the second year in a row – but that trend was countered by a rise in pedestrian fatalities, new data reveals. An estimated 6,590 people were killed were killed on or alongside U.S....
by Joseph Szczesny | Feb 27, 2020
TrueCar, online car-shopping platform and its data and analytics subsidiary, ALG, are predicting mild winter weather will boost sales of new vehicles 0.2% during February from a year ago when adjusted for the same number of selling days. After a slow start in January,...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Feb 26, 2020
With coronavirus cases now reported on every continent but Antarctica, the epidemic is expected to have a growing impact worldwide, the auto industry taking a particularly hard hit. Global motor vehicle sales will dip by 2.5% this year, according to a newly released...
by Joseph Szczesny | Feb 25, 2020
The Center for Automotive Research estimates that General Motors’ 83,860 direct U.S. employees support another 681,000 jobs throughout the U.S. economy. The CAR study noted that of those jobs supported by the auto company, 207,420 jobs are at companies that feed parts...
