Teslarati

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

My father grew up here, then moved to Michigan and got a job with Ford. automaker would build factories in the future, and amidst concerns of some companies “nearshoring” production and moving manufacturing into other parts of North America. It’s been a watershed moment for the company.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2014

ALMMII is a public-private partnership led by Ohio-based manufacturing technology nonprofit EWI, the University of Michigan and Ohio State University. The last tenant of the 107,000-square-foot property was Mexican Industries, which made plastic moldings for the auto industry until filing for bankruptcy in 2001.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The company predicts a similar situation at a transmission and casting plant in Kokomo, Indiana. Ford also laid off around 600 employees at a plant in Wayne, Michigan. Additional layoffs are happening at a Stellantis machining plant in Perrysburg, Ohio, outside of Toledo, due to “storage constraints.” What are your thoughts?

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Green Car Reports

MAY 4, 2016

For a decade now, Tesla Motors has been the "black swan" of the auto industry. It's a California company startup, founded from scratch, using a new powertrain, that against all odds has sold more than 100,000 electric cars and created a brand known worldwide.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2021

In a perspective piece in the journal Joule , researchers at the University of Michigan lay out the main questions facing lithium-metal, solid-state batteries. To develop the questions, they worked in close collaboration with leaders in the auto industry. What will the added hardware mean for battery pack performance?

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Teslarati

APRIL 11, 2023

Still, as the company looks to dramatically increase its offerings in North America, Oakville will likely play a vital role. “Ford of Canada has been a leader in the country’s auto industry since it was founded 119 years ago, driven by hard-working, dedicated employees,” said Bev Goodman, president, and CEO of Ford Canada.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 4, 2023

After the state of Michigan pledged in 2021 to complete a wireless charging road by this year , Israeli startup Electreon has finished installing the EV charging road, according to a press release shared by the company last week. million investment from the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT). Today, thanks to Gov.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2009

A new report released by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute ( UMTRI ) analyzes critical choices faced by automakers and finds that broad, deep, fast change is necessary for success in the context of the worst financial crisis in the history of the domestic automobile industry. Source: McManus and Kleinbaum.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Morgan currently stand as Rivian’s underwriters for the company’s debut. billion) and Ford Motor Company ($79.65 If Rivian’s shares end up selling at the top of their marketed range, the company could make history as the seventh-biggest US IPO on record, according to Bloomberg. Rivian Automotive Inc.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

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. The company will deliver these powertrain kits to a dealer network to be established. Source: ALTe. Click to enlarge.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

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. In 2022, SK Siltron held a ribbon cutting for the new plant, part of a larger commitment by the company to increase its U.S.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2009

Kokam America also made news earlier this week when its newly unveiled joint venture with Dow Chemical and Townsend Ventures LLC—KD Advanced Battery Group LLC (KD)—announced plans to invest $665 million in a new 800,000 square foot battery manufacturing facility in Michigan, and also was awarded $144.6 Earlier post.). Don Nissanka.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

We now have a sprinkling of promising companies working to get funded to convert gas-guzzlers. 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. We just had to do it.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 11, 2009

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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Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

Stellantis is offering certain higher salaried US employees separation packages to help its “transformation to become a sustainable tech mobility company and the market leader in low-emissions vehicles,” a company spokesperson said. Of course, more EV battery factories creates more demand for raw materials.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Fighting to preserve the EVs that the automakers were crushing almost 20 years ago, saving up to 1,000 from the crusher, and helping keep the cause alive when the government, most environmental organizations, and the car companies had given up. What type of leadership makes you thrive? What type of leadership makes you thrive?

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Fighting to preserve the EVs that the automakers were crushing almost 20 years ago, saving up to 1,000 from the crusher, and helping keep the cause alive when the government, most environmental organizations, and the car companies had given up. What type of leadership makes you thrive? What type of leadership makes you thrive?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2009

Industry officials expect that this $2.4 billion in cost-share from the award winners, will result directly in the creation tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the US battery and auto industries. Companies and universities in Michigan are receiving more than $1 billion of the grants. Ford Motor Company.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Three years ago, the magazine Popular Mechanics even wrote an article prodding the auto industry for not building the 100 m.p.g. John Waters, the CEO of Bright Automotive, is a veteran of Detroits auto industry, just like most of the Bright team. Later, he went on to work at auto supplier Delphi Corp.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 19, 2009

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. Way to kill the audience, Greg. Now that’s funny! Really Bob?

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Ford calls the Lightning a “ Model T moment for the 21st Century ” and the company's $50 billion investment in EVs is a bet-the-company proposition. University of Michigan professor emeritus John Leslie King , who has long studied the auto industry. One reason for the new rules, observes professor. New York Times.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

The way cars are used here, the ways in which cars interact with the environment, the way in which human beings reside in urban centers in China are profoundly going to seed the development of the auto industry in every other part of the world. China wants to lead a revolution in transportation, not follow. Private sector. Zhixin Wu.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2009

The company is currently in discussions with eight states, including Michigan, hoping to host the facility. The two companies are part of a growing US supply chain serving the electric vehicle and plug-in hybrid car markets. Think is also collaborating closely with battery makers Ener1, Inc. The US plant will build the TH!NK

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Teslarati

JULY 19, 2022

“That is why our nation is investing in these companies. Taxpayer money should not go to companies that utilize labor outside the U.S. During the State of the Union address, President Biden praised GM for investing $7 billion into EVs and for creating 4,000 new jobs in Michigan. Frankly, it is unseemly.”.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Electric Cars and The Volt Can Transform America and the Auto Industry TODAY!!! This idea of a plug-in hybrid electric car by fuel efficiency standards shows how some car companies would choose to go all electric. This could only help our discussion for automotive jobs, green jobs and the entire car industry.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 31, 2021

But indications made it increasingly seem like the company might actually be serious. According to the Asian auto industry gurus at ZoZo Go , it’s the strongest product debut in the history of four-wheeled vehicles. Clair, Michigan, that will build complex battery enclosures for the all-new 2022 GMC Hummer EV.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2023

Many in the auto industry are warning that realistic BEV range numbers under varying conditions need to be widely published , else risk creating a backlash against EVs in general. Furthermore, the costs and time needed to repair an EV are higher than for ICE vehicles, according to the data analytics company CCC.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Batteries not ready. No announced plans.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Think is also working closely with the Brussel based Eurelectric , the European union of electricity industry. The Norwegian company just last week met with Gov. Think Global was formerly known as Think City, a prior Ford Motor Company ( F ) acquisition and part of a now-defunct Think division at Ford. before 2010. ENON.OB ) ).

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

billion to add more than 6,000 union jobs at plants across Michigan, Ohio and Missouri, all part of Ford’s plan to up its EV sales numbers to 2 million a year, worldwide, by the end of 2026. Tesla just opened its new Austin, Texas factory in April .

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

UAW President Shawn Fain expressed on social media that the latest offers from Stellantis were insufficient and don’t “reflect the massive profits we’ve generated for this company.” The Anderson Economic Group, an economic consultancy based in Lansing, Michigan, told Bloomberg that even a 10-day strike could reduce U.S. Michigan Gov.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

President Joe Biden visited a Michigan picket line in support of striking UAW workers this week and ahead of a Wednesday night event former President Donald Trump will hold at a nearby auto facility. Eastern if substantial progress is not made in contract negotiations, according to a person familiar with the matter in a CNBC report.

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Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

The reinvigoration of the body of interrelated federal and state fuel economy and emissions regulations will have major implications for the auto industry and the environment. Maureen Gorsen: The engineers of the car companies, it takes them several years to design their cars—I think they like three years lead time.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

It also gives a boost to Japanese solar energy companies, who have lost ground this decade to competitors in other countries.) The state of Michigan, which has seen its economy decimated by the collapse of the gas-powered auto industry, is pouring incentives into the alt-car market.

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