GM Investing $8 Million to Expand Battery Lab
General Motors is investing $8 million to double the size of the battery research lab at its Warren, Michigan technical center. The expansion of the facility, which will grow to 30,000 square feet, will not only make it easier for the automaker to improve on-site...
GM Posts $4.3 Billion Post-Bankruptcy Loss, But Cautiously Predicts Profits Ahead
General Motors reports it lost $4.3 billion during the nearly six months after it emerged from bankruptcy on June 10, last year, but senior GM officials stressed that during the final quarter of 2009, the company’s finances improved substantially, making it very...
2010 New York Auto Show
Live from New York…no, it’s not Saturday Night Live…it’s the last big event of the car show season, the 2010 New York International Auto Show. And TheDetroitBureau.com is, as you’d expect, combing the halls of Jacob Javits Center looking for the latest products and...
Battery Cars, Cruze Coupes and More in a Candid Conversation with Mark Reuss
One thing you can say about the Internet: it gives you a way to get up close and personal with just about anyone – including Mark Reuss, the man in charge of General Motors’ core North American operations. In an hour-long type-fest, the one-time...
Editorial: Leaked Toyota Documents Raise Questions About Safety Regulators as Well
With Toyota slated to be the target of a high-profile hearing on Capitol Hill, tomorrow, Congressional insiders leaked a damaging internal document showing the automaker celebrating a “win” after convincing the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to limit...
Editorial: Toyota CEO Abandons Credibility
During his third news conference in barely two weeks, Toyota President and CEO Akio Toyoda announced today that he will not appear before a U.S. Congressional hearing, later this month, as he’d been requested to do. Instead, the top man at the world’s largest...
2010 North American International Auto Show
The press days are over, and there’s plenty to read about from the 2010 North American International Auto Show. Find out who had the hot cars, trucks, concepts and crossovers. See who’s planning to start hiring, now that sales are picking up again. And...
Tips for Teens Coping with Dangerous Winter Roads
Now that winter is firmly entrenched in our northern latitudes, drivers are trying to cope with the ice, snow, and other hazards that turn roads treacherous and contribute to the more than 1.5 million annual weather-related car crashes, according to the National...
New GM CFO Could Get More Than $6 million
One of the chores awaiting General Motors’ new Chief Financial Officer, Chris Liddell, will be to pull the books in order following the maker’s well-publicized bankruptcy, a critical step towards GM’s planned Initial Public Offering. But creative accounting is also...
VW Announces “Racing Under Green” Broadcast
Beginning the week of January 18, behind-the-scenes footage of the country’s only professional diesel racing series will air in national television with a “Racing Under Green” documentary. The 60-minute show is an inside look at all of the elements that make the...