by Joseph Szczesny | Feb 19, 2018
General Motors told employees it plans to close down the company’s big truck assembly plant in Flint, Michigan, for the month of July. The company said in a memo circulated to employees of the truck assembly plant that the plant will be closed for a...
by Joseph Szczesny | Feb 16, 2018
Union activists have detailed a recent series of racial slurs and taunts in plants belonging to car makers and suppliers. The report follows recent complaints by the EEOC detailing a climate of sexual harassment at Ford Motor Co. plant in Chicago that prompted...
by Joseph Szczesny | Feb 16, 2018
Autonomous vehicles will re-shape the world as decisively or even more decisively than the Internet or smart phones, one of the automotive industry’s top authorities on artificial intelligence told a panel sponsored by the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Center for...
by Joseph Szczesny | Feb 15, 2018
The Chinese government appears to have extended the hefty incentives that helped ignite the rapid sales of electric vehicles in China, according to Bruce Belzowski, managing director of the automotive futures program at the University of Michigan Transportation...
by Joseph Szczesny | Feb 15, 2018
This story has been updated with new information. Toyota Motor Co. dropped a broad hint that it is preparing to unveil a concept car at the upcoming 2018 Geneva Motor Show that will signal the impending return of one of its most famous nameplates, the Supra. However,...
by Joseph Szczesny | Feb 14, 2018
General Motors car-sharing service, Maven, which offers customers access to personalized, on-demand mobility services, has opened for business in Toronto, Canada’s largest city. So far, GM has rolled out Maven in more than a dozen cities in North America,...
by Joseph Szczesny | Feb 14, 2018
The amount of money Americans borrowed to finance the purchase of new vehicles increased again during the fourth quarter of 2017, according to new figures published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The Federal Reserve Bank of NY said the value of auto loans...
by Joseph Szczesny | Feb 13, 2018
Continental AG, the giant automotive supplier, and Nvidia, one of Silicon Valley’s fast-growing tech companies, are planning to combine their talents on system for self-driving cars. The goal, the latest in a string of partnerships between technology and...
by Joseph Szczesny | Feb 13, 2018
A St. Louis-based development company is moving ahead with plans for the demolition of General Motors’ old assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, which was once of the most profitable factories in GM vast manufacturing portfolio. The plant was still turning out...
by Joseph Szczesny | Feb 12, 2018
General Motors and its joint ventures in China delivered 367,712 vehicles in January, posting a year-over-year increase of 14.5%, but Ford Motor Co. suffered a reversal as sales dropped by 1% to 75,990 vehicles. Nissan sales rose 13.1%. while Toyota Motor Co. sales...
by Joseph Szczesny | Feb 9, 2018
Fiat Chrysler Automobile N.V.’s Ram and Mopar brands combined at the Chicago Auto Show to display an outdoor-sport-themed 2019 Ram 1500 that was modified with a selection of the more than 200 Mopar parts and accessories. The show truck highlighted the menu of Mopar...
by Joseph Szczesny | Feb 9, 2018
Subaru has ambitious plans to sell more vehicles and the effort is based on a deft marketing campaign built around the word love and an emphasis on charitable giving. During the past decade, as Subaru has become the seventh best-selling brand in the U.S., the Japanese...
