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UAW strikes: GM shuts down Kansas plant and lays off 2,000 workers

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Ford also laid off around 600 employees at a plant in Wayne, Michigan. Strikes have so far hit GM’s full-size van and midsize truck plant in Wentzville, a Ford Bronco SUV and Ranger midsize truck plant in Wayne, Michigan, and a Stellantis plant in Toledo, Ohio, which produces the Jeep Wrangler and Gladiator. What are your thoughts?

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Ford EV production push receives another shove

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.” Currently, the Oakville facility produces the Ford Edge and Lincoln Nautilus, neither of which are electric vehicles. Its new flagship production location, BlueOval City, is now under construction in Tennessee and will start producing battery cells and next-generation electric vehicles in 2025.

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ALTe Developing Series Plug-in Hybrid Powertrains for Conversion and OEM Applications

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A Bloomfield, Michigan startup is developing light- and medium-duty series plug-in hybrid electric vehicle powertrain systems—initially as conversions, but ultimately extending to an OEM basis. Rendering of the Gen 2 series plug-in hybrid powertrain under development. Source: ALTe. Click to enlarge.

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First wireless charging road in the U.S. completed in Michigan

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Talk of wireless charging roads for electric vehicles (EVs) has been underway for the past several years, but the first U.S. We are the birthplace of the auto industry, and the home of the first mile of concrete road and the first three-way traffic signal. completed in Michigan appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Report: U.S. Prepping $540 Million for SK Group Semiconductor Factory in Michigan

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Finances have been earmarked for a facility operated by subsidiary SK Siltron CSS to expand a plant located in Bay City, Michigan, which had previously expressed plans to build more chips. As a bonus, the program should also free up chips for automakers — especially in regard to electric vehicles.

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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

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When our country was attacked at Pearl Harbor, no one believed we could build 30,000 planes and tanks in just one year. Well, America’s auto industry delivered over 100,000. That helped us become the world’s greatest industrial power. It helps that the auto industry will be building more efficient new vehicles.

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Will Obama’s billions jumpstart the electric car? The Green Piece

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So will his billions rejuvenate the American auto industry and put it back on top of the motoring world as it enters a new era? The economic stimulus funds have been doled out to programmes in 20 US states, but Michigan, the traditional home of motoring, is the key beneficiary. Who will benefit?

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