The Truth About Cars

JULY 14, 2023

the New England International Auto Show has been canceled twice in a row due to low dealer inventories and waning financial investments from automakers. Elsewhere, it's already been a busy year in the auto industry as EVs take over the market. Here in the U.S., Image: Ice_Blue via Shutterstock] Become a& TTAC& insider.

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Baua Electric

MAY 14, 2024

Jeremiads lamenting China’s takeover of the global auto industry are everywhere these days. Car Wars Han Feizi, writing in Asia Times , offers a colorful assessment of the current EV scene in China, which he compares to the notorious Japanese “motorcycle wars.” Three recent accounts stand out from the pack.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In fact, GM’s EV commitment is so groundbreaking and worthy of the “industry-leading” props that its most popular electric car, the Chevrolet Bolt, will not be produced for the rest of the year so the company can focus all of its attention to recall repairs.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2017

The analysis prepared by Alan Baum, founder and principal of Baum and Associates, proposes that legacy automakers are experiencing low stock valuations and cutting jobs and expenses largely due to two factors: Overall demand for passenger cars and trucks is declining modestly. Even so, current auto sales and profits remain strong.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 15, 2021

But when Tesla gained ground and started taking meaningful market share from the world’s renowned car companies, automakers changed their tune. . Lutz then added a rather interesting detail related to Tesla’s competition from Das Auto. And that, ultimately, helped earn Elon Musk yet another Person of the Year Award. .

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Teslarati

JUNE 9, 2023

Tesla shares ( NASDAQ:TSLA ) surged over 5% on Friday amidst investors’ positive sentiments following the announcement that General Motors would be joining Ford in adopting the Texas-based EV maker’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) for its electric cars.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 17, 2011

The North American International Auto Show 2011 (the Detroit Motor Show as it is colloquially known) opened its doors to the public last Saturday (Jan 15) with many anticipating one of the most spectacular line-ups in the show’s 104-year history. With the auto industry enjoying a resurgence, [.]. The Green Piece Column.

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JANUARY 4, 2012

This growth will be driven largely by modestly improving economic conditions and pent-up demand pressure, with the latter resulting from consumers putting off car purchases over the past several years. Fitch estimates that the break-even industry sales level for the Detroit Three and major parts suppliers is now about 10.5

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 13, 2007

Detroit and it's Congressional defenders are again suggesting that what's good for America will kill Big Auto. The Detroit Free Press story headline tells the tale: House talk on plug-in cars erupts Mich. auto industry. auto industry. lawmaker warns of demise of U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2016

In all of our fuel price scenarios (from Very Low to High), the auto industry would be profitable if current standards stay in place. —co-author and independent auto industry analyst Dan Luria. Standards that encourage making more fuel-efficient cars also offer a hedge against gas-price spikes.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 13, 2012

auto industry worried that Chinese carmakers would use inexpensive cars to gain a foothold here, just as Japanese and Korean makers had done. That hasn't happened, for many reasons--one being that making cars good enough to sell here is remarkably hard. More recently, the Detroit Three worried that Chinese makers would.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Hybrid cars have well and truly hit the mainstream. auto industry, buyers have been slower to catch on to the concept. According to the Detroit Free Press, research by Edmunds shows. After years of slow sales around a decade ago, Toyota has now sold over 4 million hybrids. And Honda recently passed its first million.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 13, 2015

The great thing about the Detroit Auto Show is that it brings so many global auto industry executives together under one roof.

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Teslarati

JUNE 22, 2022

Ford believes the Valencia, Spain plant is the ideal location for making cars with a next-generation EV architecture and plans to produce the vehicles later this decade. The Detroit-based automaker aims to roll out seven new EVs in Europe by 2024 with an annual production capacity of 600,000 vehicles by 2026.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

GM has also said it won’t be able to offer unemployment benefits to the workers “due to the specific circumstances of this situation.” “The fundamental reality is that the UAW’s demands can be described in one word — untenable,” wrote GM President Mark Reuss in an op-ed for Detroit Free Press on Wednesday. That is a fact.”

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Baua Electric

JULY 22, 2023

He said he doesn’t want to shake the hands of the CEOs until they come to him with a good deal.” — Michael Martinez, Automobile Information reporter, at the UAW president’s determination to forgo the ordinary handshaking ceremonies with Detroit 3 CEOs as word talks start “The trick for the auto industry to do this is not to discover the material.

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Baua Electric

MAY 15, 2023

‘WE CONTINUE TO NEGOTIATE’ A spokesperson for Champagne stated Friday the “auto industry is crucial to the Canadian economy and to the hundreds of thousands of Canadian workers.” Thomas funding is just for cells, Parmar instructed Car Information Canada. The deliberate St. “The U.S.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Over the course of their conversation, Sorkin asked Barra about GM’s market cap as compared to Tesla, self-driving cars, US President Biden’s Tesla snub during the White House EV summit, the upcoming revisions to the country’s EV incentives, and the idea of Tesla workers potentially earning more in a non-union workplace.

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Plugs and Cars

MAY 4, 2008

OBAMA: Well, you know, I, I think that if we decided right now that we were going to make the kind of investment I've proposed--$150 billion over 10 years--then I think at the end of the decade we could have a auto industry that has significantly reduced our consumption of oil by as much as 35, 40 percent.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Despite not having the best financial portfolio of the Detroit automakers, the Blue Oval was consistently offering the union the sweetest deals and can now take credit for being the company that finally paid up in hopes of ending the strike. economy and Ford already likes to promote itself as “the most American of all car companies.”

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Revenge of the Electric Car

AUGUST 13, 2009

We went to Detroit recently to see Bob Lutz. Lutz lives in a spread that can best be described as “bucolic,” in a quietly lovely suburb outside of Detroit. Bob didn’t emote too much over the state of the car industry and Detroit as a whole, but, surprisingly, his wife did. It was a nice way to spend a morning.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2017

But despite its light weight and natural abundance, automakers have been stymied in their attempts to incorporate magnesium alloys into structural car parts. These enhancements make magnesium easier to work with and more likely to be used in structural car parts. It also improves ductility. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

The Detroit News reported that GM has decided to produce the Cadillac Converj, an extended range electric vehicle derived from the Voltec platform. Cadillac included the Converj concept car at the 2009 North American International Auto Show. Earlier post.) A production date has not been set, according to the report.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2012

In-wheel electric drive startup Protean Electric ( earlier post ) has formed relationships with several leading companies in the global auto industry to accelerate its in-wheel electric drive systems to market in high-volume production. The suppliers and partners are: FEV, based in Aachen, Germany and Auburn Hills, Mich.,

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APRIL 22, 2009

Other editions: Mobile | News Feeds | E-Newsletters | Electronic Edition Find it: Jobs | Cars | Real Estate | Apartments | Shopping | Classifieds Sponsored by: Your browsers security settings are preventing some features from appearing. car when tech-savvy types can configure one in their garage by rewiring their existing hybrids.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

That all has to be harvested and collected and transported. … [It’s] all of the energy that [the factory] consumed to make the car, it’s all of the people traveling to and from the plant, all of the materials traveling to and from the plant.” Paul, Minn. “My concern is with the lack of urgency.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Two German investors, Ingo Voigt and Fritz Nol, announced their intent to buy Fisker Automotive, the failing plug-in hybrid car company, on 11 September. The program backs automotive companies that offer both green energy initiatives, such as increased fuel efficiency, and new auto industry jobs in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Prior to Tesla, Thomas was Director of Special Projects at Magna Steyr, VP and Division General Manager at auto supplier Collins & Aikman, and a powertrain component design engineer and powertrain system project and project engineer for 10 years. Gen1 System installed in a Crown Vic. Click to enlarge. Gen 2 system in a rolling chassis.

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Baua Electric

MAY 15, 2023

billion) from LG Power and undercover contributions from federal and provincial governments, as the biggest ever within the Canadian auto sector. A spokesperson for Champagne stated on Friday that the “auto industry is crucial to the Canadian economy and to the hundreds of thousands of Canadian workers.” billion ($1.1

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The UAW’s promises with the Detroit 3 expire Sept. “It’s really about the level of dedication companies have to the auto industry,” he stated. The logistics trade residue in a moderately fragile situation, as evidenced by way of the Aug. 7 chapter of trucking corporate Yellow Corp.,

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Baua Electric

MAY 15, 2023

billion from LGES and secret contributions from federal and provincial governments, as the biggest ever within the Canadian auto sector. On the moment of the plant’s announcement, in March 2022, Canada’s Innovation Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne described the trade in, which incorporated about $1.48 federal government.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 7, 2021

The Biden administration’s goals seemed good on paper, with the president announcing a national target of electric cars making up half of all new vehicle sales by 2030. Biden has always made it clear: he supports electric cars, especially those that are made by American labor. Defects in cars were typical too.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 29, 0002

UAW leadership headed to Washington this week to drum up support from politicians as it engages in contract negotiations with Detroit-based automakers. While this has often been the status quo for the union, UAW President Shawn Fain has suggested the government would help ensure a fair deal with the automotive industry.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 19, 2009

Car Makers Serve Up Funniest Fail Ever! As I get ready this morning to head over to the Lutheran Church in Gardena to participate in this national day of service by helping to prepare meals for my less fortunate neighbors, I want to thank the auto industry for giving me a great laugh at their expense. Now that’s funny!

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Plugs and Cars

APRIL 16, 2007

What can the auto industry do? Particularly the parts where he blasts detroit lack of leadership and also particularly the Bush administration. From a new interview in Fortune and his new upcoming book, " Where Have all the Leaders Gone ?": Plug-in hybrids. I think they're virtually here now."

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NOVEMBER 7, 2008

or any other automaker would have far-reaching consequences, given the millions of people employed by supplier companies, dealers and other small businesses that are dependent on the industry. You can’t sell cars to people under those circumstances,” said Rick Wagoner, G.M.’s Industry sales in the United States have fallen 14.6

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Plugs and Cars

MARCH 23, 2007

But there it is in a Detroit News Autos Insider piece today. Just weeks after announcing production, perhaps, in 2010, the industry's hometown paper lets us know this is no done deal. The Volt grabbed headlines, lit up online chat boards and dominated the buzz at the auto show in Detroit. And little came of a $1.5

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